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3. Do not allow the pledges to drink liquor - Simply put, Dad’s\Mom’s nights are the most dangerous activities undertaken in the IU Greek system so limit them to beer only. The old IU tradition of having pledges chug hard liquor is a serious problem. Historically, most chapters have been good about having dry pledgeships except for those nights. Practically every year, someone in the Greek system gets alcohol poisoning during this activity. Sometimes this gets traced back to the chapter and sometimes it doesn’t. Over the last 25 years, Alpha Tau Omega, Alpha Sigma Phi, Kappa Sigma, Pi Kappa Phi, Acacia, Pi Kappa Alpha, Sigma Pi, Delta Tau Delta, and Lambda Chi Alpha and the sororities Kappa Kappa Gamma and Delta Zeta have all had serious alcohol poisoning incidents following Dad’s or Mom’s night. In all these cases, the individuals had BACs north of 0.3. In every case, the new members were lucky to have survived. And these are just the times where a public news story was written about the incident. I would guess the actual number of instances is double what I listed. Regardless of the actual facts and circumstances it will always be considered hazing if a pledge is injured drinking alcohol. Just to reiterate, the university, the media and the law will treat it as hazing no matter what anyone says or what actually happened. The officers of the fraternity may be held legally responsible for any injuries.