What's wrong with Pledging???
From the day you are invited to join you will have
all the rights and privileges of membership. Our program is called "Associate
Membership". This program is unique among fraternities here at KU.
This is because Lambda Chi Alpha is the first Greek organization on this
campus and in the Nation to have Associate Membership. You will find that
when many or your friends who have joined other fraternities areaccepted,
they became "Pledges".
They must also go through
a period of "Pledge
Training" or "Pledge Education"
You will find many or all of the following elements in these programs:
The pledge class is organized into
a rigid structure.
Pledges do not have a voice
or vote in chapter meeings. They meet
almost exculsively as a pledge class
Discipline of pledges is generally
done as a group, and is frequently
based on different standards (Higher)
than areapplied to active
members.
House Cleaning duties are done mostly,
if not entirely, by pledges.
There is a sharp distinction in status
between actives and pledges.
Pledges undergo various degrees of
harassment, mental and/or physical
hazing.
Many of the pledges don't like what
they have to put up with,
and many of them leave
because of it.
This creates an "us against them" relationship with the initiated members.
A seperate entity or species from the initiate. Lambda Chi Alpha chose
instead to adopt a program whereby each prospective member is accepted
as an individual and given the freedom to develop and expand his character,
personality, talents, and abilities to the limits of his own potential-
from the first day of association with the Fraternity. Ideals are what
makes a "Fraternity"what it is-Lambda Chi Alpha is Belonging!!!
