The Delta Chi Fraternity has dedicated itself towards the goal of "Personal Growth Through Brotherhood." Your true friendships evolve by sharing common experiences and challenges with others, by being roommates, studying together, being team mates, or by just having a good time. Delta Chi will expose you to a diverse group of lifestyles and backgrounds, providing an opportunity for you to learn and to work successfully with others.

Delta Chi encourages you to develop, to your fullest potential, the highest standards of fraternity living that are essential for quality brotherhood. Delta Chi takes great pride in being the first fraternity to abolish the humiliating pre-initiation practices of "Hell Week." The general fraternity continues to uphold this historic position and opposes hazing in any form. Through your associate member oath and ultimate membership in Delta Chi, you are obligated to support and comply with the Delta Chi Law. Should you by chance see or experience any hazing activities during your membership in Delta Chi, it is your duty as a responsible Delta Chi member or associate, to report that situation to the Executive Director or the Delta Chi Risk Management Commission.

Due to the sometimes ambiguous nature of hazing, it is impossible to write a concise definition that covers every possible hazing activity while simultaneously eliminating all non-hazing activities. For this reason Delta Chi has adopted the following general definition and the Board of regents, for the purpose of explanation, has developed a list of activities that it considers hazing.

The list that follows is for you to use when evaluating the chapter education program:

1. Physical acts such as running or calisthenics.
2. Forced or coerced carrying unusual items or buckets, paddles, rocks, and or "pledge kits."
3. Paddling.
4. Forced or coerced eating or drinking of any substance.
5. Applying of any substance to an associate member's body or belongings.
6. Forced listening to any loud or repetitious music or noise.
7. Physical harassment pushing, tickling, or yelling.
8. Deprivation of sleep or normal sleeping patterns.
9. Deprivation of normal amounts of food and water.
10. Individual or group interrogations such as line-ups, rat courts, etc.
11. Forced or coerced trips such as kidnaps or dumps.
12. Putting associate members in any uncomfortable setting such as cold or hot rooms, smoke filled rooms, etc.
13. Personal servitude.
14. Assigning pranks such as streaking, painting objects, panty raids, harassing other individuals or organizations.
15. Calling associate members derogatory names suck as ducks, scum, maggots, worms, etc.
16. Deprivation of adequate study time.
17. The use of "National Test" to deceive associate members that they will not be initiated.
18. Associate members expected to do anything for the fun of the brothers.
19. Treasure or scavenger hunts.
20. Forced or coerced wearing of conspicuous clothing not normally in good taste.
21. Memorization of any facts not directly related to Delta Chi.

The Constitution of The Delta Chi Fraternity strictly prohibits any activities like the previously mentioned. In 1890, Delta Chi formed the Hazing Commission (the name was changed to the Risk Management Commission in 1922) to make rulings on reported hazing incidents. Hazing, as mentioned before, is tough to define in specific terms; however, the By-Laws gives us a general definition in Article V, Section 3, subsection (4)(b):

"Hazing is defined as any action or situation created, whether on or off Fraternity or campus premises, which produces mental or physical discomfort, embarrassment, harassment, anxiety or ridicule, no matter how good the intent or end result."

Procedures for actions taken by the Risk Management Commission are outlined in the same article. These procedures act as the guidelines for the commission to interpret any possible hazing violation.