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I am a recently initiated brother of a fraternity on an SEC campus. [My username has nothing to do with my fraternity]. During the last semester, I visited 3 other SEC schools, 2 Big Ten schools, and a Big 12 school. I can say wholeheartedly that the hazing I witnessed at the 2 Big Ten schools and the Big 12 school was much worse than what I even went through during my pledge period, or saw at the SEC schools.
I have come to the conclusion, just based on what I've seen and been through, and on my friends accounts, that the schools in the north have lost many aspects of the tradition of their fraternity - and as a result have resorted to hazing more. I have never seen a pledge have to abide by a dress code in the north, while in the south we - for a semester - wear a tucked in collared shirt, dressier shoes or sandals, and khaki pants or shorts at all times outside our dorms. Or, like 5 weeks of pledging, we wear a full suit to class.
It angers me to visit my chapter elsewhere and see pledges walk in wearing ed hardy shirts and jeans. I know that this is coming from a southerner who is just frankly in a different culture, but I have made pledges go to their dorms and change into nicer clothes when me and my brothers visit.
It's hard to say whether the south or north is worse on hazing, I got hazed, legitimately hazed. I never went through anything that was posted above (the pumpkin story), but I've heard of stuff like that.
Just my 2 cents,
Greek unity everyone.
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