Hazing means "love and trust" ???

You can call it "hazing" .... I call it sadism.  Such practices should be totally banned.  This is just one of the ways  bullies act,  pretending to  follow traditions  and accepted norms of behaviour.

......"They told us there was no hazing, that they didn’t believe in it," she said Then the paddles came out. The pledges, clad in sweat pants, were instructed to wrap blue and gold tape around the wooden paddles, each a foot long and 6 inches wide, she said.

She was struck 19 times that night, she said. Four sorority members delivered the blows, the pledge said, while two others supervised. She said the group was told the beatings would "humble" them and would get them to rely upon one another.....

h/t: Irene