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I don't think it would be option number one. If they were going to haze like that I don't think they would be so concerned with risk management. The pledge process is traditionally meant to help the pledge class bond before initiation so I doubt they would let him half-pledge, which would certainly cause a lot of resentment from his pledge brothers.

Is there a rule on your campus about when bids can be extended? Perhaps the brothers wanted to get to know you better before extending a bid but this rule prevented them from waiting a week or so. (We don't have a rule like this, we can't extend bids from the start of the semester to the Friday of rush week but we could do it every day after that if we wanted to.)

Can you explain more about what you actually signed? I really don't think his back is an actual issue and it all seems really sketchy.