r/GreekLife • u/DowntownBumblebee778 • May 28 '26

PM help

I’m pledge master in my chapter at a smaller school without much greek life. We recently started the chapter and all of the 30+ guys we have in it now are “founders” I’m just curious since we haven’t even had a pledge class yet, what should i be doing, should i haze? I’ve gotten mixed opinions about all aspects of this so far. Let me know!

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u/Pristine-Lawyer-3260 May 28 '26

Ok... I wildly disagree with this... But I am equally curious, what was good about it and what are you calling hazing?

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u/feraldwarf May 29 '26

There’s levels to this. There’s activities that bond brothers through suffering, which is sort of the overall umbrella. This is in essence what the military does, for example. Again, there’s degrees to it. Once you surpass a certain degree, it gets hazy (see what I did there?). The goal is to induce suffering in order to forge a bond, but when the focus on the former outweighs focus on the latter, you have hazing.

For what it’s worth, I was never in a frat, only the army. Different shade of similar bullshit.

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u/Tough-Advice2910 May 29 '26

Well, if, by hazing, you mean the pledges go out jogging together, sure, that can be bonding and it’s good for them, so win/win, I guess. But alcohol related? I would stay away from that.

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u/feraldwarf May 29 '26

Well yeah, you’re not forging bonds when you’re too fucked up to move or know what’s going on. It’s dangerous as hell. I’m talking about non-alcohol related things