[ThetaxiUW]

I agree with many aspects you said, however disagree with many assumptions.
To start off with, the pledge quarter. We have 53 class days to decide. You can gain a good idea of scholastic achievement of a person in this amaount of time. Not to say that is an important factor in the decision though. Considering that freshman are rushed on terms that if a person has a GPA in high school below a 3.3 or so, we will not bid him. As for a process to help him and let him know if we are thinking about it. During meetings we discuss all associated members. We ask if anyone has any realistic problems with any members. And no, cock-blocking is not one if them. This includes criminal activity, theft, etc. But why should personal issues not be included as much as any other. The two major points of our fraternity and I would hope others are scholastics and social. Social. If a person does not fit your house, why should you burden him and yourselves with that? Why not get it over early with instead of having a difficult brohter in the future. I agree, people will change and adapt to their surroundings. So if something like this happens... we have his big bro talk to him about this and see what he thinks. The system works beautifully.

As for drinking, we cannot have three or more people at an event without it being labeled a Theta Xi event. All Theta Xi events are to be dry if not using a third party vendor. We adhere to these rules. These rules were thought of by our brothers who used to live in our house 30 or 40 years ago. They are the ones who think this is best. We agree.

As for hazing, glad to hear it.