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1. "Many of the people telling me to stop hazing were some of the biggest hazers when they were in the chapter. Why would I listen to a hypocrite?"
2. "The military hazes so why can’t we?"
3. "The hazing used to be much worse."
4. "Pledges need to earn their letters."
5. "I know hazing is wrong but I don’t want my chapter to close."
6. "Hazing is just what college students do."
7. "We only haze a little."
8. "We want to eliminate hazing but we’re waiting for the seniors to graduate. "
10. "If we stop hazing, we’ll lose alumni support." (yes, I know they forget 9. so as to keep with continuity, I numbered the same as them.)
11. "But all of the sports team haze too!"
12. "Our Greek Advisor only condemns hazing to be politically correct."
13. "“Nationals” only prohibits hazing because they are required to for liability reasons.
14. "Hazing is a test that helps boys become men / girls become women."
15. "We can’t have fun any longer; everything is hazing."
16. "We take pride in having physically fit pledges."
17. "Hazing weeds out those that who don’t really want to be here."
18. "Hazing is tradition."
19. "Every other chapter on campus hazes too."
20. "We only use hazing as a form of discipline."
21. " No one is going to die from house chores."
22. "We give our pledges the option to not participate."
23. "They wanted to be hazed."
24. "Hazing is just a rite of passage."
25. "We can’t just initiate anyone. We have to have some standards."
26. "Hazing brought me closer together with my pledge class."
27. "Hazing made me a better person."
28. "We’ll never get caught."
29. "Hazing unites the pledge class."
30. "We’ve always done it that way."
31. "Everyone before us had to do it"
32. "Hazing builds better men/women by instilling toughness."
33. "Hazing breaks people down so we can build them up and in turn create long-lasting friendships."
34. "No chapter is greater than its weakest link. Hazing shows each pledge that he or she is no better than the group."
35. "Other chapters won’t respect us if we don’t haze."
36. "Hazing is just part of becoming a Brother."
37. "I don’t think __________ is hazing."
38. "Pledges must learn to appreciate the fraternity/sorority."
39. "Hazing teaches pledges to respect their elders."
40. "Pledges must pay their dues to become a member."
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