What should a Fraternity be?

[thermobryan]

Alrite, there has been recent discussions about what you should and shouldn't do in a Fraternity, what is a risk, what isn't. I'm just curious where everyone is at when it comes to what you want out of your Fraternity experience and what keeps you going? I mean, what reasons do you love it and where do you want your Fraternity to be at?

[Kevin]

The easiest way to say this is that a fraternity should live up to whatever its ideals are. If a Sigma Nu tries to live his life in a way that exemplifies love, honor and truth, his chapter will not have risk management issues or any real negative issues.

[shadokat]

Read the words of why your fraternity was founded, what its ideals and values are, and what you should strive to be as a member of that group, and THAT is what your fraternity is.

Most importantly...always be gentlemen.

[pirate00]

Emphasis must be placed on the new member's role in his fraternity. After his initiation, it is important to place this question before him; "Now that you're here, what are you going to do with it."? Sometimes, but not always, new members don't necessarily know how they are going to fit in as a brother, since there so used to being a pledge for the last couple of months or however long the process has lasted.

It could be helpful for fraternities to establish a sort of "Brother Education" after the ritual for each new member so they can feel at ease with whatever duties and responsibilities a Brother has in his respective organization. The different committees he may be useful on, strange scenarios in which a Brother could find himself in; in essence, an "after-ritual education' may very well serve a new brother to point him in the right direction and gives him a sturdy cornerstone in which to build on hiis fraternal experience.