Is this sort of hazing normal?

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I am starting my freshman year in a month and I am going to rush. My brother is the only person in my family to ever consider going Greek so he is the only one that can really tell me anything about it. He rushed in the fall of his sophomore year. He said that his fraternity technically hazed by making pledges DD once or twice a week late at night, making them drive actives to class if it was rainy, making the pledges make breakfast, buy them cigarettes/dip, bartend for their parties, clean the house after parties, etc. nothing too serious. But a few weeks before he was initiated he was woken up at like 4 in the morning in his dorm by some actives, he asked what was going on, and they said they were going to take them into a field and beat the heck out of them, he thought it was a joke and asked one of his friends he met freshman year that was in that fraternity if they were serious and he said yes that it was a tradition and that he went through it and so has everyone else in the chapter. He said that he wasn't going to let them do that so he voluntarily dropped. I am all for hazing but that goes to far. I support making pledges do stuff for the actives and do things that help build brotherhood and bonding in the pledge class and with the actives. But this went to far, I am not for physically brutalizing pledges or working them so hard with pledge duties that they almost flunk out. Is this lighter hazing normal? And also is the extreme hazing that they tried to make my brother go through normal at all? Thanks for any replies.