Prohibited Hazing Activities
From PhiSigmaPiWiki
These examples are merely illustrative of specific forbidden practices and are not intended to be all-inclusive. Please check with your Region Consultant to ensure all initiate activities are in accordance with Fraternity and Institution guidelines.
Mental Hazing
- Conducting activities which do not allow adequate time for study during the initiate period.
- Yelling, screaming, or directing negative comments at members or nonmembers.
- Deceiving new members prior to The Ritual designed to convince an initiate that he/she will not be initiated or will be harmed.
- Playing extremely loud music, repeated music, or any other audible harassment.
- Not permitting initiates to talk for any extended period of time or limit to whom and when they can talk.
- Requiring or encouraging nudity at any time.
- Intentionally creating clean-up work.
- Requiring initiates to run errands (servitude).
- Engagement in public stunts and buffoonery.
- Publicly wearing apparel which is conspicuous and not “normally” in good taste.
- Subjecting an individual to cruel or unusual psychological conditions for any reason.
- Individual and group interrogations such as “line ups”.
- Using any type of demerit system other than a positive evaluation program.
- Requiring initiates to greet members at all times or answer the telephone/door with a jingle, song, or specific verbal response.
- Any behavior which is sexist, racist, or demeans the religious beliefs of others.
- Never doing anything with the initiate.
- Referring to initiates using demeaning names (“kids”).
- Conducting activities which confuse, frustrate, or cause undue stress.
Physical Hazing
- Activities causing excessive physical fatigue.
- Forced calisthenics (sit-ups, push-ups, and runs).
- Conducting an initiate activity between the hours of midnight and 8 am or awakening individuals during these hours.
- Permitting less than seven continuous hours of sleep each night for initiates.
- Pushing, shoving, tackling, paddling, or any other act which may cause harm.
- Requiring initiates to drink alcohol or take any other substance such as drugs.
- Forced consumption of food or other substances.
- Branding or scarring of any kind.
- Throwing anything at or on an individual.
- Theft of any personal property under any circumstances.
- Assigning or endorsing “pranks” or harassing other organizations.
- Defacing public or private property.
- Kidnapping, transporting, and/or stranding anyone.
- Conducting scavenger/treasure hunts resulting in possible theft or disruption of others; searching for humiliating items.
- Carrying items which will interfere with daily activities.
- Denying initiates time for study or interfering with scholastic/extra-curricular activities/work in any way.
- Confinement in small, unventilated, unsanitary, or unlighted areas.
- Any activity without a constructive aspect or purpose.
- Allowing initiates to use only a particular door when entering or leaving any building or to use a certain stairway within a building.
- Blindfolding and parading individuals in public areas, blindfolding and transporting in a motor vehicle or privately conducting blindfolding activities that serve no constructive purpose.
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