[lovelyivy84]

The first thing we all collectively need to do is to STOP treating being brutally hazed as a badge of honor- the worse you got it, the more respect you are given.

You can tell pledges that they shouldn't let themselves be hazed all you like, but when they see US giving props and respect for this kind of behavior, they know what is really meant, even if it is never said. They know what happens when you DON'T go through the hazing, and that they may never be accepted by the people that they respect and look up to the most.

We need to rethink member education, and I don't just mean of new members- there are a LOT of old heads who just won't accept that things must and have changed. Point to cases like thjis as the consequence of not changing those behaviors. We need to make it clear that those attitudes of scorn and disrespect are not welcome in our orgs, because that attitude belongs to a gang, not an organization of college educated individuals.