..............I think you will find in organizations where hazing is prevalent, and extreme, that the initiated membership is less active in the chapter than other comparitively similar organizations that do not haze. The only good I seem to have gotten from your perspective on hazing is that it brought your line/class tigthly together. However, shouldn't membership in a fraternity create bonds among ALL members, not just your class. This creates chapters with eight separate "cliques". There are so many more other methods of bonding membership than some sort of "bonding stress test." It creates the wrong kind of bond if only the new members are expected to get together.
.............Techniques differ from organization to organizaton. I would prefer to join a org. that has a more stringent selection process. If it candidate stage is too much for me to handle then i would not continue. If i can handle it, then i will bask in the glory that membership brings.
"Eight men thoroughly immersed are a far greater asset than 80 with lukewarm enthusiasm"
P.S. I have never given a pledge wood.
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