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From my understanding, anything that "pledges" or new members are forced to do that actives do not is considered hazing. Now if both new members and actives were responsible for cleaning the house then I would see nothing wrong with that. If you live in the house or make mess in the house then, you will have t clean it up. That's fair.
Forcing new members to clean while the active watch and then have to sign off on it is hazing. These new members may think that if they don't clean they won't be initiated, they may fear that that one of the actives may randomly say no you didn't do a good job and he'd lose a point. Or the member loses a point because he only spent an hour and a half cleaning the bathroom rather than 2 hours. If they fear that their actions while cleaning will affect their chances to initiate you are putting undue stress on them, and thus that is hazing. Asking EVERYONE to clean, or assigning duties to ALL members (active or not) then, no, that's not hazing. Just think about it...no one likes cleaning, it's not fun, and it's definitly not fun when certain people are singled out to clean while others sit back and monitor them.
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