Drinking during pledging?

[DZsis&mom]

From the University of Alabama at Birmingham Student Affairs Webpage

What Activities Can Be Considered Hazing?

Striking or paddling swats of any kind
Phone duty or answering the phone differently from members
Treasure and scavenger hunts, road trips, etc.
Requiring calisthenics such as sit-ups, runs, etc.
Requiring the carrying of any items
Preventing/restricting class attendance or sleep
Requiring personal service or acts of servitude
Forcing someone to eat or drink against his/her will
Work parties or work duty for pledges, new members, candidates, or associates only
Preventing/restricting personal hygiene
Marking or branding
Causing nudity or indecent exposure at any time
Physical harassment such as pushing, cursing, shouting, etc.
Requiring uncomfortable, ridiculous, or embarrassing dress
Treating a person in a degrading or demeaning manner
Requiring pledges/new members to practice any periods of silence
Conducting “interrogations” or any other types of questioning
Requiring signature books, paddles, etc.
Theft or defacing property under any circumstances
Misleading or deceiving pledges, new members, candidates, or associates in an effort to convince them that they will not be initiated, that they will be hurt during initiation or that initiation is anything other than an inspirational and dignified experience.
“Suggesting” that new members “acquire” paraphernalia from another chapter
Conducting any type of Hell Week activities or calling any pre-initiation activity Hell Week
Keeping the date and time of initiation or crossing a secret
Requiring anything of pledges, new members, associates that is not also required of members
Telling new members to wear specific clothing
Having new members run errands for active members
Yelling at new members
Requiring only new members to do study hours

[DrPhil]

Originally Posted by DZsis&mom

What Activities Can Be Considered Hazing?

There is a reason why it is worded this way, emphasis mine.

Some of these activities are mandated or accepted by the organizations' national bodies.

[AlphaFrog]

Originally Posted by DrPhil

There is a reason why it is worded this way, emphasis mine.

Some of these activities are mandated or accepted by the organizations' national bodies.

It's that whole "open for interpretation" and "taking things too far" that can cause this to be a grey area.

ASA HQ condones "stringing for bigs" - using yarn throughout the house and your big is on the end of your yarn - but my university banned it because they found a fraternity pledge sitting on the basketball hoop outside a 2nd story window undoing yarn. His big had thrown it out the window and then threw it over and over into the basketball hoop.