NIC Standards Video

[TSteven]

The North-American Interfraternity Conference
At the NIC site, click on *Standards* (left side bar) then *Video*

“The NIC Standards are dynamic and represent a true opportunity for us to unite for the greater good of fraternities.” James R. Estes, President, NIC

Video produced by The North-American Interfraternity Conference

Please take a moment to review this four minute video about the excellence that exists in today’s fraternity. The men who you will meet through this video are proof that compliance with standards will result in extremely successful, highly functioning, and well respected fraternities on your campus.

Use this video in your discussions with stakeholders such as undergraduates, alumni, faculty advisors, and community leaders.

The pride, genuineness, and true fraternal spirit of these men will reinforce your belief in the fraternity experience.

Download the video here: NICStandards.wmv

[Betarulz!]

I'm not really sure that video really did a very good job in its mission...but whatevs.

On the whole, this is probably a good idea. The one thing I really don't like though is the push for pledging periods to be shorter than 12 weeks. This is actually probably not that big of deal at most campuses, but at places like my university where we have summer rush, it's not practical for a pledgeship to be so short. As GC always shows, greek life is very different from campus to campus so I think that the culture of the host campus needs to be considered when adapting these types of measures.

[TSteven]

FYI: Represented in the video are the following fraternities and colleges.

Fraternities
ATW
BQP
DC
QC
KA Order
KAY
PKF
SAE
SFE

Colleges
Birmingham-Southern
Colorado
Emory
Florida International
Georgia Tech
Jacksonville State
Miami (Ohio)
North Alabama
Texas Tech
West Chester

[TSteven]

Originally posted by Betarulz!
The one thing I really don't like though is the push for pledging periods to be shorter than 12 weeks. This is actually probably not that big of deal at most campuses, but at places like my university where we have summer rush, it's not practical for a pledgeship to be so short.

If you can elaborate - why wouldn't the pledge period (education etc.) at NU (and other similar campuses) start in the fall? After you have your pledge class in place *and* once school starts. Or are y'all *required* to start in the summer?

In other words, does the twelve week pledge period start once you get your first pledge, after the last one, or at the start of the semester?

[Betarulz!]

Originally posted by TSteven
If you can elaborate - why wouldn't the pledge period (education etc.) at NU (and other similar campuses) start in the fall? After you have your pledge class in place *and* once school starts. Or are y'all *required* to start in the summer?

In other words, does the twelve week pledge period start once you get your first pledge, after the last one, or at the start of the semester?

Sorry, a little mix up in terms I think.

Rush for us ends officially on the first Friday of classes.

Pledge education theoretically starts the first day of the semester. Where the problem with the limit of the pledge period at 12 weeks comes in is that the semester is 17 weeks long. All the chapters here with one exception wait until grades are posted to initiate.

For places with rush early on in the semester, the 12 weeks max pledge program is easily overcome simply by extending rush a little longer, or pushing it back so that it ends past the fifth week...and with campuses on the quarter system, there's no problem at all.

But with us having our pledges signed before school even starts, there is not a lot we could do, and that's why I don't like the idea of standards that don't look at the differences between campuses.

[TSteven]

Got it. And thanks.