stealing pledge pins

[RoseNWhiteLion]

At our campus, we steal stuff from our favorite fraternity all the time. All in fun, and it's a big game. They stole an award from our wall, we stole all their darts off their dart board. And then we get real surruptitious about stealing it back and it's HILARIOUS. And sometimes the pledges get into it and want to go steal stuff back. and I'm not going to tell them they can't if they WANT to. Because to me.....if the definitition of hazing is "Forcing someone to do seomthing they don't want to do" (which is what I read as the Pledge Educator) then in my mind keeping them from doing something they want to do is just as much "hazing".

We have this HUGE stuffed lion that covers the hood of the truck we use in our homecoming parade, and AEPi always tries to steal that. They stole our grill off our back porch once....And twice this year so fat PKT has stolen our rock out front. But it's all in fun getting it back. Usually we'll just steal something from them, and have a trade off to get our stuff back. Or if we ask nicely, they'll just give it back.

But stealing pledge pins is also a game at our campus. Ususally I've rarely heard of anyone actually stealing it from someone's chest...they get it when the pledge is sleeping, or he leaves it on his dresser like someone said before. And the "rule" is that girls have to buy the guys beer to get it back, or the guys have to buy the girls flowers to get it back. I've never heard of a pledge getting punished for losing her pledge pin...although I'm sure it has happened.