Why Haze!!

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Originally Posted by ASTalumna06

This was a blog post by one of the creators of Phiredup.com. Just thought I'd throw it on here.

What HURTS Recruitment Results?
by: Matt Mattson

You want recruitment results, right? What do you think is one of the major concerns/fears of potential new members? Yep, you guessed it… they don’t want to get hazed. They assume that joining a fraternity or sorority requires at least a week, if not a full semester, of humiliation, hard work, embarrassment, alcohol abuse, illegalities, and other things that they’re not interested in.

So, they don’t join....
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.....Bottom line: If we’re helping you revolutionize your chapter by using Dynamic Recruitment to recruit a higher quantity of higher quality members, don’t haze them because if they really are higher quality members, they’ll quit, and all of our/your hard work will have been wasted.

Hazing hurts. It hurts recruitment results. It hurts people.

According to the NHPW website, since 1970 at least one person has died from a hazing related event each year. Let’s stop that.

One person can make the difference. Your opportunity is now here.

This is perhaps the most powerful statement I have read regarding hazing. With proper credit to the author, I agree that this should be stickied.