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Old 01-15-2010, 04:18 PM
Elephant Walk Elephant Walk is offline
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Originally Posted by rupert85 View Post
I was wondering if it is common to have pledges address senior brothers in a fraternity as "sir" during the pledge process. I am pledging this semester and the pledge period begins next week. My initial assumption is to automatically address the frat's president and members of the rush committee as "sir." Is this a good idea, and should I address all brothers in this way?
I prefer the pledges to bow like Obama before they address.

When they do address me, it should be a long drawn out laudatory address which includes "greatest" about five times and some sort of insult regarding the other fraternities and then bow when he's done.
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