Hey. From a pledge's point of view (I'm still pledging my fraternity) I think you should blackball one or more of them. You don't want apathetic pledges to become brothers who will be poison in chapter (if they even bother to show up to chapter meetings).
We have the ability to pledgeball one of our pledge bros if they don't pull their weight (i.e. miss a meeting or two for b.s. reasons, not showing up for fundraisers or community service events, not following all the rules, not coming out enough, failing pledge exams, losing pledge manual, not getting to know us, or not showing respect for the brothers).
A pledgeball isn't likely to happen, at least in my opinion, when they're all a bunch of slackers. Now I'm not a brother, but I know that the most super pledge doesn't make a great brother, but usually a crappy pledge makes a crappy brother. Cut bait and hope for a good fall rush (usually fall rush is better than spring anyway).
It's hard for me to believe though that an entire pledge class is a bunch of slackers. To me it seems like they don't respect the brothers when they fail pledge exams and don't do anything. How is that going to reflect on the chapter and general fraternity if and when they get initiated?
Ultimately I guess they don't realize the honor they've been given and lack the respect for the organization. Getting initiated is NOT inevitable, it is NOT a right, but an honor and a privilege. Help them understand that by making examples out of them, if they are that bad I'm sure it won't be too hard getting enough support to blackball more than one pledge.
Getting off the soapbox, that's just my $.02 from a pledge's perspective. I know I wouldn't want dead weight as pledge brothers.
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