This is one of those things that so depends on the intentions behind it. I've been involved with scavenger events in two different sororities... one in my national non-NPC sorority, and one in a local sorority that I was pledging at the time.

With my national non-NPC, both as a pledge and an active (back in the day before this was declared hazing), the scavenger hunts (and kidnappings) were fun. They were done in a light-hearted spirit, and to my recollection, everyone enjoyed it. When we were told we couldn't do it any more, I whined and complained with everyone else.

But then, when I started to pledge a local sorority, one of our first events was a scavenger hunt that was NOT FUN AT ALL. It felt mean, there was definite pressure, and we were definitely being hazed. I ended up depledging, because I figured if we were doing these things in the first weeks of pledging... what would they have us doing later on?

It really gave me a different perspective on the rules that had been placed on us in my national. When those rules came in, like I said, we were really upset. We couldn't understand why we couldn't do something that had been so fun. I still think it's a bummer... but I'd rather have no one be able to do it than have anyone else be subjected to what I was in my local.

I wonder if that made any sense at all.