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Originally posted by UNLDelt
emb021,
It's great that your org hasn't crossed those negative lines...but a successful program isn't all about the bad things you are NOT doing, but also has to be about the postive things you ARE doing.
Any chapter can create a program that doesn't do x, y, or z that has been considered hazing or negative...but a program like that will spend to much time and energy watching out for what not to do and forget to create new ideas that the can do that serve to instil a, b, or c in new members that we all agree is necessary to their development in the organization and its future.
NO is only half of the situation...what are somethings that we can say YES to that help us to create better "new member" or "pledge programs"?
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Understood.
In my org, we have our national pledging standards. It sets down the 20 elements that should be part of any pledge program to make it a worthwhile and positive experience (and explains the importance of them). I can't speak for other organizations, but am sure many have done something similiar.
The main point of my posting was to point out what I feel to be a poor comparision chart between good/bad practices in pledge/pnm programs, which is based on some faulty premises. While I think most will agree that hazing is bad, and many of these negative practices need to end, I think too often some have gone overboard and now banned things that did have a positive and worthwhile value.