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Frat House is a 1998 documentary that explores the darker side of fraternity life and hazing.The film, directed by Todd Phillips and Andrew Gurland, focuses on the pledging process through a composite of different fraternities.
Pledge pin – a pin worn by pledges for the duration of the pledging period. It is usually given to a pledge following a ceremony when they are first offered membership in the organization and can be worn until their initiation. With some organizations, especially those that no longer have a pledge process, it may be called a new member pin.
Sigma Alpha Rho's pledging process is designed to prepare the pledges to be completely active and equal members of the chapter. SAR emphasizes a no hazing policy; pledges attend meetings and can participate in fraternity-wide events.
While pledging at Bowie State University, it was reported that he endured verbal assaults, punches, slaps, paddling, and body slams consistently. [164] In 2014, six Alpha Phi Alpha men at the University of Akron were arrested and charged with assault for severely beating pledges. One known pledge was hospitalized due to excessive bleeding. [165]
Beginning in August 1969, the concept of fraternity education replaced pledge education at Lambda Chi Alpha. [23] The fraternity education program was designed to integrate all new members into the chapter equally. [24] In 1972, Lambda Chi Alpha officially abolished the pledge process and replaced it with associate membership.
On Thursday, in a courtroom about a mile from were Phat Nguyen died, the three other members of his Pi Alpha Phi pledge class testified for hours about the pledge process, the "crossover" party ...
The pledge was severely sleep-deprived due to his illegal and strenuous pledging process. The chapter's charter was revoked and five other Greek organizations received varying levels of disciplinary action after Nizamutdinova's death initiated thorough investigations into Greek culture on campus.
Several University of Alabama students were charged in alleged fraternity hazing incidents after a pledge said he was shoved and stepped on and had things thrown at him. Christopher Theodore ...