Kray, who helped organized the event, along with the Panhellenic Council, believes hazing should have no place in the greek community.

“There are a lot of negative stereotypes associated with the greek community, and we kind of wanted to take a stand and make a pretty bold statement: that we don’t stand for it, and that we have a zero-tolerance policy regarding hazing on this campus,” she said.

Human biology sophomore James Crawford signed the banner to stand up against hazing because he plans to pledge Theta Delta Chi and doesn’t want to be hazed.

“It doesn’t seem like you should have to jump through hoops to gain somebody’s trust,” he said.

Special education senior Lexi Justice, the vice president of external recruitment of the Panhellenic Council, said hazing is a huge focus for the group, which is the governing body that plans all events for the 13 sororities on campus.

“We are always talking about (hazing); that’s one of our big things,” she said. “It’s really important to say to the girls and the guys, ‘If you feel uncomfortable at any point of time, you need to speak up because we do not haze.’”

No event planners could recall any recent significant instances of hazing on MSU’s campus.

“Honestly, things have been very positive,” Kray said. “And we’ve definitely been improving our relations with the MSU administration and East Lansing community as well.”

Kray said she hopes the council’s Hazing Prevention Week grows into something bigger.

“We’re hoping that this is the starting point,” she said. “We’re trying to get the ball rolling a little bit. We hope to make it a bigger event that kind of carries on into the other weeks of the semester and into the following semester.”

Kray said anti-hazing is a movement that started long before MSU became involved.

“Organizations all around the country … do this,” she said. “So (we) were like, ‘You know what, this is something that has to start happening at Michigan State.’”