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Gentlemen,
This is my first ever posting on greek chat as I have just signed up. Ms. SigEpRaider got me signed up. But I digress.
I am an alumni from University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Gamma. During my 5 years at my chapter, I acquired a lot of knowelege that I'd like to share.
First of all, those of you who are saying that the founding fathers didn't have a pledge program are absolutely right. Pledging and "Hazing" didn't officially come into existance until after World War 2. After the war, There was a flood of people attending college due to the GI Bill that FDR instituted. After the Mental and Physical rigours that the men were expoesed to, they decided that they needed to "Haze" new members coming in to bond with them, because that's how they related to their comrades in the war. Obviously, this notion is now extremely outdated.
I am from a Traditional Chapter, and during my tenure there, I saw first hand how numbers dwindled and the quality of those we recruited fall along with the numbers. I now feel that the only way my chapter will survive another 5 years is if they go bmp. We had guys, about 80% of the chapter, get initiated, and then do NOTHING but take up space and valuable oxygen. With the BMP plan, if you don't participate, you eventually lose your membership status. It's that simple. NO Dead Wood. No Apathy, which is the main reason chapters die out. If you don't care enough to particiapte, than you have no buisness being a brother of this Fraternity. BMP will help weed out those weak links that we all have in our traditional chapters, making us stronger over all. And that's the real goal here.
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