Kappa Sigma Ceremony

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You have been requested to appear this evening before this Gamma-Upsilon Chapter of Kappa Sigma for two reasons.

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First, that you may have explained to you certain matters concerning your duties as a Kappa Sigma pledge, and secondly, that if you are willing so to do you may take the Obligation as a pledge.

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Before proceeding further, and as is becoming for every mortal creature, we will bow our heads and invoke the blessing of Almighty God upon this meeting.

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Supreme Grand Master of the Universe, we beseech thy blessing at this time and we especially ask that thou wilt guide our pledges so that they may exemplify in their lives the noble principles of our beloved fraternity and humbly follow in thy footsteps. Amen.

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Before you can be formally pledged to this Gamma-Upsilon chapter of the Kappa Sigma fraternity, you must freely assent to the following conditions:

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First, that you will diligently apply yourself to your studies, recognizing that your principal purpose as a student at this university is to obtain the best education of which you are capable.

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Second, that you will live the moral life of a gentleman serving God, conforming to the laws of the land, the regulations of this university, and of the Kappa Sigma Fraternity.

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Third, that you will keep sacred and inviolate all confidences of members of the Kappa Sigma fraternity and the pledges thereof.

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Fourth, that you will always discharge to the best of your ability the orders received by you from the officers of this Gamma-Upsilon chapter or the general officers of the Kappa Sigma Fraternity.

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Fifth, that only with the consent or at the request of this Gamma-Upsilon chapter of the Kappa Sigma fraternity can your pledge be released. Do you each freely assent?

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Brother Grand Master of Ceremonies, you will then place our pledges at the altar, kneeling, with their right hands on the Holy Bible.

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You will each repeat after me: I hereby and hereon freely and voluntarily pledge myself to become a member of the Gamma-Upsilon chapter of the Kappa Sigma fraternity,

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recognizing the right of this chapter to release me from my pledge if it should so decide or if I should disregard the duties? or violate the obligations of a pledge,

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be guilty of conduct unbecoming a gentleman, or withdraw from Rutgers University. So help me God, and keep me faithful to my pledge. Amen. You will now rise.