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I knew a fraternity at another campus that got in trouble for a tradition they have called "Loud Lunch". Everyone (brothers and new members) goes around and stands up on chairs and they loudly introduce themselves. Usually one of the brothers starts a food fight for a comment one of the other brothers said. Well this past year a new member got hit with a grape (yup...a grape) and called the organization's hazing hotline. The chapter was suspended until January (it happened in August) and the executive council at the time was expelled from the fraternity.
I think this is one instance where it might have been taken to an extreme. I don't know if this is what really happened, but I had enough friends in the chapter to hear 90% of what went on in the house on a regular basis so I'm pretty sure that the person who called the hotline was someone who wasn't prepared for life at Wabash College in general. Wabash is an all male college with some pretty wild traditions. For example, they have chapel sing, which is where they have to scream the fight song at the top of their lungs while the Sphinx Club (elite invite only spirit organization) throws tabasco sauce and other gross stuff on them. I think that chapel sing (a university sponsored event) would be more traumatizing than getting hit by food during a food fight.
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