Why don't we do this?

Here in Valdivia, there is a certain tradition. Some may call it "hazing", others "cruel and unusual punishment"--I like to call it "Hilarious"

Every year the first year students at each university are put through an initiation process. Basically they are painted, drenched with water and other foods, then told to beg on the streets for money. From what I understand, they have to receive a certain amount of money to buy clean clothes back from the second-year students.

Each day is a different vocation at a different school, so for the first couple of weeks of classes, there are dirty first-years roaming the city, doing just about anything for a couple coins--even posing for a picture with some Americans.