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Student Activities and Integrative Learning  

Policies

Expectations of All Fraternities & Sororities at UNC Asheville

  • Adhere to the principles and ideals contained in your Ritual
  • Comply with all your national policies (hazing, risk management, meeting attendance at national conventions and leadership schools, etc.)
  • Attend all training sessions, retreats, meetings and workshops
  • Achieve a chapter GPA of 2.500 or higher (to have social privileges).
  •  Provide a list of academic incentives the chapter offers members to be posted on the Greek Life website and your chapter website. Groups not submitting this material will show up as a blank
  • Update your chapter roster in Greek Life by the second week of each semester. This ensures you have an accurate roster for competition in Chapter Excellence Awards, compliance with the 2.500 requirement, payment of dues to your respective councils, and verification of membership figures with the national headquarters
  • Submit Community Service hours and Campus Involvement information by the end of finals each semester, or a blank will appear for that column on the Greek Report (see Reports & Forms)
  • Comply with the Greek Alcohol Policy, including alcohol-free recruitment. Violations are referred to the Judicial Board. Chapters violating policies are noted on the Greek Report and may lose privileges.
  • Submit the names of new members to Greek Life after recruitment to have the most accurate roster for posting of recruitment results on the web and for new member seminar attendance figures.
  • Comply with the Hazing policy both as individuals and as a group. Violations are referred to the UNC Asheville Honor Court.
  • In order to be a recognized student organization at UNC Asheville, groups must have an active faculty/UNC Asheville advisor (UNC Asheville faculty or staff status).
  • Chapters with houses comply with all fire safety regulations
  • No chapter should at any time engage in activties to create hardship or embarrassment for its members, UNC Asheville students and faculty, or other Greek organizations.

Hazing

The University defines hazing as any action taken or situation created intentionally whether on or off campus to produce mental, emotional, or physical discomfort, embarrassment, harassment, or ridicule. Such activities and situations may include, but are not limited to:

  • forced ingestion of alcohol or other controlled substances
  • paddling or other physical abuse in any form
  • creation of excessive fatigue
  • quests
  • treasure hunts
  • scavenger hunts
  • physical and psychological shocks
  • wearing publicly any apparel which is conspicuous and not normally in good taste as defined by the proper hearing bodies
  • engaging in public stunts
  • morally degrading or humiliating games or activities
  • sexual misconduct of any sort
  • and/or any other activities that are not consistent with academic achievement, fraternal law, ritual or policy, or North Carolina Law.

Under state law, any hazing to annoy, frighten, scold, beat, harass, or subject a student to personal indignity is a misdemeanor. In addition, the law mandates that the university expel any student found guilty of hazing. N.C. Gen. Stat. 14-35, 14.36 (1994).

The faculty or governing board of any college or school charged with the duty of expulsion of students for proper cause shall determine guilt and upon such conviction at once expel the offender. Failure to do so is also considered a misdemeanor. N.C. Gen. Stat. 14-35, 14.36 (1994).

Is This Hazing? Five Simple Questions To Ask

  • Is alcohol involved?
  • Will active/current members of the group refuse to participate with the new members and do exactly what those new members are asked to do?
  • Does the activity risk emotional or physical abuse?
  • Is there risk of injury or a question of safety?
  • Do you have any reservations about describing the activity to your parents, to a professor, or a University official?

If the answer to any of these is yes, the activity is most likely hazing. Also understand it is possible for the answers to be no to each of these questions and the activity to still fall within the University definition of hazing.

FIPG Guidelines

FIPG was founded to offset the rising cost of insurance to Greek organizations in the 1980s by drafting a policy of risk management designed to make Greek Life safer. All fraternities at UNC Asheville are signatories to the FIPG and must conform to these guidelines for all social chapter functions.

  1. The possession, sale, use or consumption of ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES, while on chapter premises, during a fraternity event, in any situation sponsored or endorsed by the chapter, or in any event an observer would associate with the fraternity, must be in compliance with any and all applicable laws of the state, province, county, city and institution of higher education, and must comply with either the BYOB or Third Party Vendor Guidelines.
  2. No alcoholic beverage may be purchased through chapter funds nor may the purchase of same for members or guests be undertaken or coordinated by any member in the name of, or on behalf of, the chapter. The purchase or use of a bulk quantity or common sources of such alcoholic beverage, e.g. kegs or cases, is prohibited
  3. OPEN PARTIES, meaning those with unrestricted access by non-members of the fraternity, without specific invitation, where alcohol is present, shall be prohibited.
  4. No member, collectively or individually, shall purchase for, serve to, or sell alcoholic beverages to any minor (i.e. those under legal "drinking age").
  5. The possession, sale or use of any ILLEGAL DRUGS or CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES while on chapter premises or during a fraternity event or at any event that an observer would associated with the fraternity, is strictly forbidden.
  6. No chapter may co-sponsor an event with an alcohol distributor, charitable organization, or tavern (tavern defined as an establishment generating more than half of annual gross sales from alcohol) where alcohol is given away, sold or otherwise provided to those present.
  7. No chapter may co-sponsor or co-finance a function where alcohol is purchased by any of the host chapters, groups or organizations.
  8. All rush activities associated with any chapter will be a DRY rush function.
  9. No member shall permit, tolerate, encourage, or participate in "drinking games."
  10. No alcohol shall be present at any pledge/associate member/novice program, activity or ritual of the chapter.

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