How to stop hazing in my fraternity?

[exlurker]

Originally Posted by dnall

I'm an ATO, so Alpha and Omega with a cross in the middle. We aren't exclusively a Christian org, but we are based on Christian principles. We were started after the civil war to bring mankind together on the basis of commonly held judeo-christian principles, and cause everyone to believe in those things so we can unite them. So, not really a problem.

That said, we tapped Campus Crusade to run it. I know some campuses have Greek InterVarsity which would be a good alternative if it's there.

Anyway we have some principles stated in our ritual. We just changed the words to synonyms. Added some complementary stuff. Then told the Campus Crusade guy to do a moral development sessions based on one of those words for each session. He did the non-denominational won't offend anyone version. He did make bible refs, but also talked about how something was viewed in Judaism, Islam, etc. It was a bit of a communications barrier to get across to this guys what we wanted, but once it was going it worked well.

We ended up recruiting a couple guys out of campus crusade that each later served as chaplain for the chapter - which is mostly about continuing moral leadership education for actives in our org.

Bible study may not be the answer for every org, but it's something that worked for us.

Thanks for the info, and best wishes for the future, too.

[dnall]

Originally Posted by exlurker

Thanks for the info, and best wishes for the future, too.

haha you caught me mid-edit. No worries. Hope our experience can help someone else along the way. If not, well, it worked for us at the time & I'm proud of that accomplishment.