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work. Pledges take on intense
rituals geared to bond the
members of the pledge class
to each other and to the
fraternity. Sometimes the ac-
tivities involve alcohol or dar-
ing acts, which can lead to the
accidental injury, or even
death, of a pledge.
Nationally, Zeta Beta Tau
has been embroiled in a few
scandals over the last couple
years. The chapter at the
University of Pennsylvania
was suspended a few years
ago for hiring strippers at a
fraternity event. The Univer-
sity of Wisconsin chapter was
suspended after holding a
mock slave auction last fall.
Schatz said a ZBT chapter
at a large southern universi-
ty was reprimanded for
engaging in hazing this fall.
"We caught them and took
very harsh action," Schatz
said. He said the president
and vice president of the
fraternity were removed and
more than 20 members of the
fraternity were either sanc-
tioned or suspended.
Dishell, a senior, said the
older members accept the
new policy as being practical
and necesary. As president,
Dishell would be liable for
any harm that would come to
a member of the house. "An
accident can happen
anywhere," he said. Still,
Dishell is not convinced that
eliminating the activities in
a pledge program was good.
Dishell said the fraternity
members harbored resent-
ment when first told of the
new system because they did
not know if students would be
interested in joining a frater-
nity with no pledging. "Image
is more than half of being in
a fraternity," Dishell said.
Dishell said members like
the change. He said the new
members are the same type of
people the fraternity always
has attracted.
"We have a membership
class. Maybe we lost a guy
here or there because he
wanted to pledge, but we also
gained a few because they
didn't want to pledge."
Membership Development
Director Brian Inerfeld was
looking forward to his duties
under the title of pledge
father. Instead of leading the
pledge program, he is ad-
ministering the Brotherhood
Program.
Inerfeld said he was part of
what he estimated as 70 per-
cent of the fraternity that in-
itially oppposed the new na-
tional fraernity policy.
Inerfeld said he was "very
satisfied with pledging."
"I didn't have to do gross
things; I was never forced to
drink and I had my clothes on
the whole time. Why would I

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An evening meal at ZBT.

want to be part of a house
that made me do any of that?"
he asked.
"Everyone saw fraternity
pledging in Animal House
and it was depicted as a real
great tradition," says Inerfeld.
"Guys want that when they
come to college."
He said members saw that
the new policy did not deter
students from looking at the
chapter.
"There were more mature,
responsible people coming
through the house," he said.
"We are probably the
hardest house to get into and
we were one of the hardest
houses to pledge. We are very
selective and got the 19 guys
we were looking for."
He said new members are
expected to have dinner at the
house each night and attend
meetings for new members
and chapters.
"When I was a pledge, we
all were told to paint the
house one Saturday after-
noon," Inerfeld said. "The
other night a new member
asked if it would be all right
if the new members came
over and painted the
hallways. That shows how
well the system works — they
wanted to do something we
dreaded."
Inerfeld said the new policy
has "removed upperclass
apathy." He said if the floors
needed scrubbing the pledges
used to automatically have to
do it. Now there is a rotating
wheel of duties so all
members from the president
to the seniors and the pledges
share responsibilities.
When a member joins a
fraternity, he is paired with
an older member of the house,
or a big brother who plays a
role in introducing the new
member into the fraternity.
The role of the big brother is
more important Inerfeld said.
Zeta Beta Thu member An-
dy Friedman is a big brother
and said he makes a con-

scious effort to be closer with
his little brother by calling
and going out with him fre-
quently. "That is the best op-
portunity for us to show the
new members what our
brotherhood is like," he said.
Friedman, a junior, lives in
a house off-campus with eight
other members of Zeta Beta
Tau fraternity. He said it is a
tradition that new members
split into groups and bring
the actives that don't live in
the house Sunday breakfast
each week.
"They used to just drop off
bagels but now we sit back
with them for a good hour-
and-a-half and talk and hang
out with the guys,"he said.
Friedman said he is not
thrilled about the changes in
rush. "If it was up to me we
would have a pledgeship.
Those are some of the best
memories of college."
He added that a positive
aspect was how the members
took a more active role in
rush because they knew those
accepting bids would become
their fraternity brothers right
away.
Friedman's Zeta Beta Tau
little brother, Brett Schuman,
said he knew he wanted to
join Zeta Beta Tau since he
was a senior in high school
because he had friends in the
fraternity.
Schuman said during rush
he was "only vaguely aware"
of the changes in the frater-
nity pledging policy. "It
wasn't discussed that much.
There were rumors but no one
explained the extent of the
program."
At first, Schuman said, the
new members felt that the
older members were going to
resent their status because
they did not go through pledg-
ing. "These guys went
through something we will
never experience but they feel
no resentment toward us."
Schuman said new
members vote at chapter