"A fraternity isn't about getting new guys and pledges and hazing them. Hazing doesn't make you a brother."

It's exactly that mindset that proves Florida State University's
anti-hazing prevention program is working.

Another sign: the school was awarded The Zeta Tau Alpha Award for Innovation in Hazing Prevention and Education which not only comes with a $10,000 check towards the program, it also comes with a pledge to keep students safe.

"Hazing isn't just a Greek issue. Anytime there's a student organization. Anytime there's a power difference there's an opportunity for hazing."

The award comes on the heels of hazing-related charges that got several fraternities kicked off FSU's campus in 2006.

Goldstein thinks the recognition is for the creative outreach to students and enforcing Florida's hazing law, the Chad Meredith Act. "We really spent a lot of time on our website. Sending the message that we are a community unconquered by hazing. So, we've tied it to our institutional identity. We've tied it to our sense of pride about who we are and who we're not."

Jason White a Florida State Fraternity Member says, "We tell the candidates what constitutes as hazing and to let those in charge know so we can reprimand those who did that."

Whether word of mouth or technology is the key to enforcing the no tolerance law, students say the campus community is safer because of it.

Goldstein said other Florida schools have contacted the university to get pointers on how to get the community involved.
The $10,000 check will be presented to Goldstein at the Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education Annual Conference this weekend in Chicago.

The award winning website is hazing.fsu.edu