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Originally posted by bekibug
...plus a fraternity system that still hasn't made a cohesive effort to change their terminology to something more similar. Even though the signs up for fraternity recruitment advertise "formal fraternity recruitment," no fraternity guy (except those on IFC) calls it anything but rush, and the guys will still call themselves pledges. It's almost like most of the fraternity guys I know are making an effort not to change their way of thinking about it.
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Recruitment has been part of fraternity jargon well before the NPC switched from
rush to
recruitment. As such, most fraternities (chapters) use both terms interchangeably.
The NIC did proposed to change the terminology exclusively from
rush to
recruitment a few years back. As such, IFCs are moving toward the use of
recruitment exclusively. My guess is that chapters, and perhaps even some/many/most (inter)national HQs, will continue to use both terms.
Here is a typical example where both
rush and
recruitment are used. From the
web site of the Lambda Lambda Chapter of Sigma Chi Fraternity at The University of Kentucky.
(With rush coming up, have to get that plug in somehow!)
From the side menu, if you click
Recruitment you open a dialog box that offers
Fall Rush 2005 as an option. If you select that, the
Fall 2005 Rush Information section opens with the following.
Quote:
Fall 2005 Rush Information
Monday, August 22nd - Friday, August 26th
Please contact Recruitment Chair AAA or
Consul BBB for any questions, comments, or
concerns about rush and recruitment.
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ETA: As far as I can tell, the term *pledge* is still used by many fraternities as well.