Fraternity

What is a "FRATERNITY"?
The true meaning of fraternity: a social club for male undergraduates :A fraternity (Latin frater : "brother") is a Brotherhood, though the term usually connotes a distinct or formal organization ("http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraternity") is fraternity really needed in college or even in high school male students? Now a days having a fraternity is a must! Some male students says. Maybe their right, maybe their wrong. Who knows?
Teenagers now have their own fraternity and one of the very well known fraternity here in the Philippines is the "Tau Gamma Phi / Treskelion" I have a cousin that had joined Tau Gamma Phi in the year 1995 he tells stories about the hardships or Initiations that he had undergone before he became a fully pledge member of that fraternity and one of those hardships that he said is "hazing".

Hazing is a one form of initiation the master initiator or M.I. holds a wood use for hitting the legs of the Neophyte/s ,and until he complete the required number of hit that is only the time that the M.I. will stop hitting the Neophyte/s the wood that the M.I. holds is called "Paddle". (the pic on the right side is the actual initiation rights)




In another side the high school students have their own version of fraternity and they calls it a gang. The member of the gang is called a "Gangster/s". Gangs is consist of the Founder & the members not like the fraternities they only form the group for their vices, like smoking, drinking alcoholic beverages, sex,drugs & mostly riots or fights. (pictures of the well known gang in the Philippines TBS)
They idolized the American black Hip Hop community, as their fashion, culture and even musics.
In other hand they also have their own kind of initiation called the "30 second massacre" the members including the founder will beat the neophyte with punches and kicks to their head and their body.

Now how does the school and other university respond to this kind of initiation thing that the Filipino teenagers are getting involved to? Do their parents allowed this kind of setting for their life? Because if you joined one of this Fraternities or Gangs there is no quitting no turning back.

I have a simple message to our Filipino teenagers who are not yet a member or wanting to join this kind of organizations, "think 100 times before joining this org. or else you will end up with nothing."


SELF CONFESSION
I am also a member of a Fraternity here in the Philippines "Phi Lambda Epsilon" I wanted to quit. But how? It`s too late now.