I am a new member on here, and I must say that these are some interesting responses. Let me put my 06 cents in.
I am not ashamed to say that I was hazed physically and mentally. But, it never was in a manner to where I would question anyone's integrity or I felt like my life was at stake. I was drained mentally and physically, and I was very excited and relieved when I put on that Black and Old Gold.
I don't think the question should be who pledged the hardest because people's perceptions are different. Maybe "Who pledges hard?"
Personally, I think anybody can go get a physical beat down. I will not lie, there were times I felt like I was beat down, but there was so much more to my process.
My process consisted of getting to know my fraternity through learning tons of history(chapter & national), getting to know each other, working together with different personalities, teaching life lesssons, getting physically fit, mental challenges, and learning the true meaning of brotherhood through my experiences and challenges. My experiences always seemed to run well after the midnight hour.
Being that I am a night person, I could deal with it. Everything I did had significance and reason, and that is how it should be.
I think that we really need to realize that these people we are pledging are our chapter's future. Realizing that, our chapter takes our intake process very seriously because we want our future to keep the chapter's traditions going and possibly add new traditions. Understanding that, it has to be more than just physical. Why settle for just inflicting bludgeonings and malicious attacks?
