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Originally Posted by Kevin
Old school hazing is still alive and well, particularly in the South. It's one of those things I think IHQ just doesn't really want to acknowledge. I think closing down MTSU and KU was a shot across the bow, but I haven't seen any truly southern schools affected. No disrespect to MTSU, but they're not exactly in the same category tradition-wise as the SEC schools, although their recent achievements were very respectable.
I always ended up hanging out with guys most from the South whenever I went to Grand Chapter. While my chapter doesn't haze at all, I can say that at the time I was a collegian, hard pledging was something many of the guys I'd come across were pretty proud of.
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I think my chapter has pretty challenging pledging without being hazing or humiliating. We expect our candidates to run the pledge class as if it were an active chapter complete with their own meetings and projects. If they don't care to learn our history, organize events, and bond then WE don't care to initiate them. It's pretty easy. I think booting a crappy pledge is a harsher punishment than push ups or drinking contests.