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Originally posted by NutBrnHair
OK, so we change the term to "new member," but still give PADDLES to our little sisters as gifts? Talk about something representing hazing! I think the paddle is the poster child for hazing. It makes no sense to me.
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I think anything means what you want it to mean. We gave paddles because of the tradition of paddles and because they are nice commemoratives - not because we were going to swat each other with them.
If you are talking to the sort of closed-minded person who thinks all Greeks haze, it doesn't matter whether you tell them you are a pledge, new member, postulant, pearl, whatever - they will still think you're getting hazed. I have become very weary of the Greek world's pandering to the thought process of the lowest common denominator.