I’ve been asked to be a charter class for a frat is the hazing going to be harder or should I wait for the frat to be established , and then pledge. Which process would you guys think is easier.
Charter class is definitely harder because you have to do all the leg work to get the charter established but who is going to haze you if you are the first class?
And if you’re in the charter class you get to set the tone on things like whether or not you’re going to be a bad house and haze or a good house.
@iwannabe_Brown Someone from an other school thats already establish.
@Ivskyline123 There really should not be hazing at the Fraternity. It’s against all? national policies. If you’re part of the charter class, you can help ensure that the Fraternity is better than that. No stupid and sometimes dangerous hazing. There is also a National Anti-Hazing Hotline that you could report any abuse by the other members, most fraternities are part of it. Don’t allow it on your campus. Being a charter member is work but an honor and you can impact the Fraternity for years to come in a good way.
Normally when a national fraternity or sorority establishes a new chapter, they’ll have a big organizing pledge class. the national organization will get alums or even students from a nearby school with a plan. For sororities at least, the national will assign some traveling reps (generally new grads from other chapters) will lead the classes for pledges, organize any ceremonies, make sure all the forms are taken care of.
I was both a charter member of my chapter and helped establish new chapters, help with ceremonies, etc. There shouldn’t be hazing at your fraternity at all, but if there is there should be much less at a new chapter as there is no one to initiate the hazing. Another chapter just helping out or reps from the national oganization will not care one bit about hazing the new pledges.
@lvskyline123
one of the reasons hazing can persist (in addition to the cycle of abuse) is that at some schools, the power and influence of the organization is real and therefore there feels like severe consequences for dropping out and/or reporting it. Kids from another school have 0 power or influence over you and on top of that the national org is going to be much more heavily involved than it would in an existing chapter, they are going to be heavily invested in making sure no one drops out. The above combination of factors means that hazing a charter class is virtually non-existent.
And if it does happen, like @gearmom says, report them. Every national org has an anonymous tip line if you want to go that route instead of straight up telling the people from the national office when they interact with you and I’d go further and report it to the other school.
@twoinanddone what frat? is it asian?