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Traditional v. BMP
To say that one aspect of being traditional is better than being BMP is the wrong way to look at things. We should look at is as just being a Sig Ep, because when it all comes down to it that is what we are, and we are the best of the best!
Although, with everything there are good things and bad things that come out of new ideas; when trying to curtail the effects of hazing and the risk management that goes along with it, this is the pendulum swinging back and forth.
We are a traditional chapter with pledges, yet we do not haze. We teach our new members the basic ideals of Sig Ep, yet we are able to see if they are going to make a good brother or not, without giving away our ritual or parts of our ritual to them. This time period is in the same concept of starting a new job and being on a prohibition period. They want to see that you are a team player, before they give you all the benefits of employment. There is a famous quote and it goes like this "YOU HAVE TO LEARN HOW TO FOLLOW BEFORE YOU CAN LEAD." Look at the brothers like Bill Mendenhall, who saw the ritual in one sitting like the rest of his traditional brothers, and look at the positive effect it had on him. He wrote one of the most inspiring letters about Sig Ep that anyone has ever written.
I understand that times change, but I also think we need to do what is best for Sig Ep. I have a football shirt from high school, and it is states that, "THINGS ARE BETTER OFF EARNED THAN GIVEN, BECAUSE IT MEANS MORE IN THE END, WHEN THE BLOOD SWEAT AND TEARS HAVE ALL DRIED UP." Sig Ep is the best thing in the world, but if we let everyone in the world in without "testing" them, then we are letting Sig Ep fall with the rest of the Fraternities. Remember we are the best Fraternity; we take the cream of the crop, not what is left in the barrel.
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