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My chapter of Alpha Gamma Delta also has paddle making traditions. Every sorority chapter on my campus makes them. They are not required, though, it is just done at your own leisure (along with shirts too!).
OH, the Phi Mu chapter at our school has an entire room with paddles in it called the Paddle Room. And we have ours in our chapter house in our rooms even during recruitment. The LC's don't like them, but they are a tradition and when we explain to them that we would be the only chapter without them they lay off. That does not mean they like them though.
Sarah