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Both pieces of advice above here are bad.
'Unity Walk' is hazing. Plus if they find out about it then then manage to stuff away some money and hitch a cab ride back home (true story: the money was hidden in an arm cast).
Second, and more importantly, security through obscurity never works. Many groups that I work with as a PA think that their pledge process is super secret and no one outside of the chapter knows what is going on. In a lot of those groups, they are dead wrong. Something always gets out.
Rather, I suggest chapters take a whole new approach to the process. Vary it up year to year and semester to semester. That way, you can tailor the lessons to what your chapter needs at the moment. An additional benefit to this is that it prevents the inevitable slow decay of events into hazing (it happens when chapters feel their process is 'too easy'). After you come up with an event or a task, ask yourself a few very important questions:
1) Would you have a hard time explaining that event to your parents?
2) Would you have a hard time explaining that event to a dean?
3) Would you have a hard time explaining that event to a cop/judge?
4) Would you have a hard time doing that event with your own blood brother?
If you answered yes to any of those questions, reconsider your event. Feel free to PM me if you want to talk more about designing a pledge process.
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