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Originally Posted by fantASTic
And THIS, ladies and gentlemen, is where the real issue comes in. In NPCs, it is a generally accepted rule that new girls are new MEMBERS. Members is the key word in that sentence. In other organizations, this is not true - your pledges or aspirants or whatever the heck you call them are NOT members.
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That's exactly the point I was trying to make in my post *about my local organization TLS*, why we never used the 'new member' terminology when the word 'pledge' was dropped *at the time I was in college*. In a way they were still potential new members, even though they had been given a bid. Potential members, prospective members, aspiring members, etc. But not members, and therefore not 'new' members.
ETA - in our case, after we stopped calling them pledges, we called them Taus.
*Edited again to specify the organization and the time frame, since as I mentioned in the first post I do not know what the exact current policy is.