Event - meeting of student organization

I attended a meeting of the IFC, International fraternity council. This meeting addressed all the freshmen who were pledging a fraternity. There were about three hundred new fraternity members at the meeting in the Great hall. The topic of the meeting was about Hazing. The purpose of the meeting was to inform everyone on what exactly hazing is and the affects it can have on people, including death. The IFC president led off with a talk about the future of fraternities and how what people did ten years ago is no longer acceptable. We were then showed clips of examples of kids who had died because of fraternity hazing. One was of a kid who was forced to consume large amounts of alcohol and passed out in the middle of a frat house. When morning came, someone noticed he wasn't looking so good, and called the ambulance. When they got their, they confirmed he died earlier that night. The fraternity was sued and some of the members faced judicial charges.

This meeting not only brought to my attention all the problems associated with hazing, but informed me with the punishments and backlashes that can result from it. It brought me and my whole pledge class together and taught us of all the consequences of hazing and that it is ok to say no to things. This has broadened my experience as a student becasue I know what is acceptable and am now in a special group of people. My knowledge of how to address a certain typoe of audience has been increased because the way the IFC produced their ideas and point-of-views really got through to me and all of my fraternity brothers.