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Originally posted by James
This quote seems to indicate that the group wasn't chartered until April 24th. Up till then they would have been considered pledges and not had access to the Ritual.
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A Sig Ep can probably clarify this, but I thought that since they went to their "Balanced Man" program, Sig Ep doesn't have pledges anymore -- one becomes a brother immediately -- but that their ritual is gradually revealed to them over a period of time. How long that time is, either for an already chartered chapter or a colony, I have no idea.
In any event, it wouldn't be that hard to know that some religious overtones might be present in the fraternity's ritual -- every history of Sig Ep I have ever seen describes the founders' statement that:
This fraternity will be different, it will be based on the love of God and the principle of peace through brotherhood.
On the other hand, Sig Ep states at its website, under the heading
A Fraternity of Firsts, that it was the
First major national fraternity to abolish membership restrictions based upon race, religion, or creed, five years before America’s civil rights movement.
Guess its hard to tell what a new member might have known or when he might have known it. But a lawsuit is crazy.
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