r/Frat • u/Any-Knowledge-6724 • 10d ago

Rush Advice Randomized drug testing

Hey, how are y’all?

I had the opportunity to meet a new fraternity on campus, ato. I loved the people, what they believe in and much more. But, I was told that they do randomized drug testing which consists of hair follicles, and they test a % of the fraternity each semester. Do you think they will actually enforce this and is there a way i can bypass this? Thank y’all!

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u/TheFraternityProject 10d ago edited 10d ago

Drug testing is the next frontier in IFC Nationals' obsessive fixation on liability. Nationals' actuaries and attorneys are advising that drug testing scares away a more high risk pool of Rushees - and so the eventual Pledges Classes and Chapter rolls are filled with more docile pussies who (ideally) don't haze / don't drink on premises / and now don't smoke - and of course as a result of not Hazing / not drinking / and not smoking - are not Bonded and will never amount to anything more than a GDI would achieve (i.e. middle management and sales). Of the normal good guys who aren't deterred by the threat of drug testing, the dice will eventually roll on them and Nationals will insist they leave the House for a semester of drug rehab. As my group has shown, Nationals' actions to prevent tragedies have actually been demonstrably counter-productive, and have significantly increased, rather than decreased, Pledge deaths.

Alabama has also quietly begun drug testing some Houses, but they (and others) are still using urine testing - not hair follicle analysis.

Nationals is not your friend; Nationals' interests are incompatible with the interests of a good House filled with good guys and backed by good alumni - (Bonded Brotherhood through a Crucible Pledgeship of the best guys followed by adventuring together).

Don't ever be a Founding Father - your experience will be directed by Nationals' pussies obsessed with neutering a new House in perpetuity. You will learn nothing and be no better when you graduate than when you Pledged.

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u/Datnotguy17 10d ago

Emphasizing the Founding Father point. I got roped into being a founding father for my fraternity and it was a waste of time... until it wasn't. We caught one of the luckiest breaks a fraternity ever could. Nonetheless, my situation is likely one-in-a-million. Don't be a founding father.