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Originally posted by Nhfulmer
If your GLO is a member of FIPG, then scavenger hunts are definitely prohibited - because of the liability issues.
As for signatures, I concur with much of what has alread been posted - they are hazing waiting to happen. I do have another questions regarding signatures - if they are meant to help the NM's get to know the initiated brothers/sisters, how are the initiated brothers/sisters supposed to get to know the same facts about the NM's? (This is important for rush as well as general brotherhood/sisterhood.) When you look at it this way, it becomes hazing. If it is something that the NM's are required to do that the initiated brothers/sisters are not, by definition it is hazing.
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Your last comment is good. I've heard its stated as "never ask a pledge/NM to do something you woundn't ask a brother/sister to do". What you expect of your members, either stated as your active requirements or implied, should be echoed in your pledge requirements.
However, there is the *implied* requirement that initiated brothers/sisters should meet and get to know the pledges/nm. The process of interviews/signatures is a way of achieving that and creating some structure to the process. As I stated, in my Fraternity, getting to know the active, associate, and advisory members is one of our National Pledging Standards and having a pledge requirement to do so is acceptable. So for us, its not a implied requirements, but a stated one. But we leave it to each chapter to define this, within the confines our our NPS, Membership Policy, and Risk Management Policy. So, meeting members is NOT hazing. What might happen in that process COULD be hazing.
Never heard of FIPG. Heard of NIC, NPC, NPHC, and PFA, but never FIPG.
Hope this helps.
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