To a *small* degree, what the campus will consider hazing will vary from campus to campus. PUblic vs. Private, California vs. Deep South, historically Black vs. historically white.
The chapter has to go on any point of whichever is *strictest*: APO risk management/pledge standards; State Law, School Rules. Some schools have gone to, IMO, a ludicrous level, but the chapter just has to live with it. If the chapter doesn't know how it can follow both the school rules and the pledge standards, *PLEASE* talk to your sectional chair/regional director about it. It will be worked out.
All that having been said, I go with the following rule of thumb. If the pledges of a chapter are doing an event and the school president, editor of the school newspaper (holding a camera) and your chapter's regional director walk in and your program doesn't change, don't worry about it.
In the incident in question. I'd suggest that the brother should have asked the Region II director. That's why Craig gets paid the big bucks
Randy