Hazing is not a part of the pledge experience and such behavior is not tolerated.

     As a pledge you will receive a copy of The Manual of the Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity, receive instruction from the fraternity educator, often referred to as the pledge trainer (and other terms), and be given weekly tests over assigned materials. (The pledge education program is guided by an outline worked out nationally.)

     The pledge class will help maintain the lodge and take on a project to help improve it. Each pledge must visit with each of the brothers who is in good standing with the chapter, with the aim of getting to know each other.

    You will attend chapter social events and philanthropic activities. There usually are some pledge class social events, sometimes with sorority pledges.

     During the pledge period the brothers discuss the pledges' progress, and appropriate feedback may be passed on to individual pledges. At the conclusion of the pledge period the brothers take  one last vote. Phi Kappa Psi follows the principle of "unit rule," meaning that there must be unanimous support for each man to be initiated into our fraternity. There generally are no surprises. Such a rigorous selection ensures that every man in Phi Psi is deserving of the title "Brother". 

     You would not want to join a fraternity that had no pledgeship. This is the conclusion of essentially everyone who has successfully completed it. It is a time when you get to know a lot of people.  Most guys look back at pledgeship as one of their better times in college.