[PhoenixAzul]

I understand where bekibug is coming from...the terminology on GC is really crazy for me.

"Pledge/Pledging/Pledge Class/Pledgeship"- all used for the 6week or 8 week process of becoming a...
"new member"- someone who has not celebrated 1 full year of initiation. To me, "new member education" is the real-life learning that takes place when you're an initiated member. It's a lot of calling, interviewing, and asking questions of older sisters and alums on how to do x, y, and z successfuly. You're being "fully" educated in stuff that you couldn't possibly have learned during your pledgeship...the stuff that requires that you *do* things with your appointed office.

Really, the semantics of things bother me sometimes. The chart makes it sound as if they are comparing two separate things, but in my eyes, it's the same *process*, just taken horribly awry. "New Member Education" can be hazing just as well as "Pledging" can be non hazing. It's a label, not a definition. As we say in communication theory...words don't have meaning, people assign meaning to words".