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Originally posted by FSUZeta
to clear it with their national office before modifying their rituals. the one thing in common that each chapter has with each other sister or brother chapter of their sorority/fraternity is the ritual, which most likely hasn't changed since it was written. your national officers might not be too happy to learn that ritual was being adapted or modified to fit the occasion. if your national organization encourages your to modify as need be, then go for it!
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Of course, there are cases when you think your national office is wrong. For instance, if a national office insisted that all initiates repeated a prayer that is very Christian, but I had Muslim or Jewish initiates, and that part would make them feel unwelcome, I would tell the national officers that they need to take another look at what effects their policies have on the fraternity, and do it my way (maybe I'd recite it so they didn't have to repeat it, or leave out the word God, or what have you). It's kind of like the situations way back when many GLO's had "white only" membership clauses. Clearly, those are wrong, and I applaud the chapters who rebelled against them, even if they no longer exist.