Fraternity Position on Hazing
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Fraternity Position on Hazing
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Delta Sigma Phi Fraternity has always forbidden hazing and will continue to work against it in every chapter. Hazing must be eliminated. Our Fraternity defines hazing as: an act or attempt to embarrass, humiliate, intimidate, ridicule, shame or endanger physically, any person, or to compel pysical activity or do physical harm to any person, or to require any consumption of liquids or other materials.
In futherance of this commitment, the following statement of policy has been adopted by Delta Sigma Phi Fraternity.
- A constructive pledge program is to be adopted and used by each undergraduate chapter.
- Each pledge will be informed of the prohibitions against hazing on the pledge form and other suitable documents and will be asked to read and sign a statement that he will not consent to being hazed nor participate in acts of hazing. The pledge will be encouraged to discuss the chapter's entire pledge program and pre-initiation practices and to ask specifically about hazing before he pledges.
- No hazing is to occur.
- Violators of the Fraternity policy against hazing will be considered to have engaged in conduct unbecoming of a member and in a manner detrimental to the best interests of brotherhood and the Fraternity. Accordingly, violators will be subject to expulsion from membership, removal from any office, and other discipline. Action will be take in a fair, firm, reasonable and direct manner, and will apply to undergraduate and graduate members alike.
- Chapters that do not comply with the anti-hazing policy will be subject to suspension, revocation of charter, and other discipline.
- Each elected and apointed national officer will be required, upon taking office, to familiarize himself with the state laws and the Fraternity anti-hazing policy, to learn about the programs of the Fraternity for accomplishing constructive pledge education, and to recognize his own personal commitment to the elimination of hazing within all chapters.
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