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Originally posted by 33girl
I think anything means what you want it to mean. We gave paddles because of the tradition of paddles and because they are nice commemoratives - not because we were going to swat each other with them.
If you are talking to the sort of closed-minded person who thinks all Greeks haze, it doesn't matter whether you tell them you are a pledge, new member, postulant, pearl, whatever - they will still think you're getting hazed. I have become very weary of the Greek world's pandering to the thought process of the lowest common denominator.
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Agree.
In APO I see people give paddles as commeratives. Bigs & Little might exchange paddles, pledge classes give their Pledgemaster (or whatever your call them) one. One chapter I know uses the paddle as a way for pledges to gather signatures, so that by the end of the program the paddle is fairly important to the pledge due to all that went into it, etc.
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