What should a Fraternity be?
 

Alrite, there has been recent discussions about what you should and shouldn't do in a Fraternity, what is a risk, what isn't. I'm just curious where everyone is at when it comes to what you want out of your Fraternity experience and what keeps you going? I mean, what reasons do you love it and where do you want your Fraternity to be at?

The easiest way to say this is that a fraternity should live up to whatever its ideals are. If a Sigma Nu tries to live his life in a way that exemplifies love, honor and truth, his chapter will not have risk management issues or any real negative issues.

Read the words of why your fraternity was founded, what its ideals and values are, and what you should strive to be as a member of that group, and THAT is what your fraternity is.

Most importantly...always be gentlemen. :)

Esoterically speaking....
 

Emphasis must be placed on the new member's role in his fraternity. After his initiation, it is important to place this question before him; "Now that you're here, what are you going to do with it."? Sometimes, but not always, new members don't necessarily know how they are going to fit in as a brother, since there so used to being a pledge for the last couple of months or however long the process has lasted.

It could be helpful for fraternities to establish a sort of "Brother Education" after the ritual for each new member so they can feel at ease with whatever duties and responsibilities a Brother has in his respective organization. The different committees he may be useful on, strange scenarios in which a Brother could find himself in; in essence, an "after-ritual education' may very well serve a new brother to point him in the right direction and gives him a sturdy cornerstone in which to build on hiis fraternal experience.