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Originally posted by IFC Advisor
I'm an IFC Advisor at a small, private university. As of right now, the university requires same-semester initiation of new members and does not allow any carry-overs. I am interested in revisiting this requirement and looking at whether or not to make some changes. I can't just say that we're going to do it, though. I need to have done some research and go to my Associate Dean with information.
I am a proponent of this requirement on campuses where hazing is a problem, and most people I talk to share a similar opinion. At our campus, however, we don't have a hazing problem, and we don't have a setting that would promote it (no chapter houses, lodges, etc).
I would like to see if there are other ideas or opinions out there-especially from other campus personnel or hq staff members. What would be pros and cons of making a change or keeping things as they are?
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I have no idea why hazing being a problem or not should have an inpact.
I can only give you information from my organization. For us, same semester is not only do-able, but the normal way of working. We do not have a GPA requirement, so that doesn't affect us.
Our National Pledging Standard sets a pledge period of 6-10 weeks. Tack on Rush week (usually 2-3 week of school), makes this do-able within a normal 16 week semester. With the chapter I work with, we normally have our initiations (pledges into Brothers) a couple of weeks or so before the end of semester. Typically, the only reason a pledge would carry over to the next semester is if they were missing requirements, and being given a chance to complete them, ideally before the next pledge class is started.
Hope this helps.