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Even when I was in school, we instituted a program called "KROP" - Keep Rushing Our Pledges (now Pearls) - to deal with the post-initiation letdown. I think everyone goes through the feeling and always has of not being "special" anymore, especially if you're in a really large group and could conceivably pass your entire time as just an active, not ever holding office. IMO that really doesn't have a lot to do with how much or how little you do during pledgeship.
I think a big problem with letting pledges get away with blowing off meetings or events is that it doesn't teach them proper time management. They have all this extra time before they're initiated, and then once they ARE initiated and things are mandatory, it's like a cold shower. Better to have your amount of responsibilities decrease than increase - it can almost make you think of initiation as a punishment if it goes the other way.
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