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[LPIDelta]

Originally Posted by Sir Genesis

The only way to judge if one way is better than the other is to look at the organization's productivity and each individual's productivity.

Well some might argue that whether the activity is legal or not would be another way to judge. Hazing is not legal in many parts of this country, and certainly not condoned by many national organizations, so my judgment would be that paddling is wrong.


Just sayin...

[Sir Genesis]

I don't condone or support paddling nor do I think it is necessary. But state laws consider making people study history or giving a pop-quiz as a hazing activity so most Organizations haze by law.

For some organizations, however, paddling has been connected to ancient rituals (though that is not how it was introduced to Greek life) and as long as it does not step outside of that tradition I will not tell someone that they cannot do that or should not. The issue is that it does often reach far outside of that tradition and becomes a sport.