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I know portions of this thread are old, but I had to comment on a couple of points - first the comment that hundreds of thousands of greeks were made each year with few incidents is RIDICULOUS - there are only a few hundred thousand greeks around, so how do you figure that so many were being made annually without serious incident. Another issue is that the dawn of MIP was not the demise of the pledge process - it was gradulally being degraded and bastardized - that was the biggest nail in the coffin in my opinion. Finally, I would love a process that was longer and slightly more challenging and open than the current three weeks, but I don't see it happening any time soon. My biggest complaint about MIP is the ridiculously large "lines" that are being made at the collegiate and alumnae level; as well as the alumnae chapters that seem to use intake as a biennial fundraiser, with no goal of or effort towards membership development. There are just too many people who have letters on their chest, but nothing in their hearts and you can't even really call them check writers because they don't even stay financial. I also think that it should be easier for a chapter to decline someone during the process as it is easier to be accepted for intake (relatively speaking).
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