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I go to a small, private Christian university, so this may hold up differently than it does elsewhere, but... We do our big/little reveals on Bid Night (it's the last thing we do before we send the new pledges home). The pledges are in a room with the President learning the club songs/chants/etc. and the members are outside preparing for the reveal. When it's time to do it we blindfold the pledges and then lead them out one by one. We sit them down in a chair that's surrounded by the stuff they get from their bigs to help them through the pledging process. Once all the pledges are in their respective chairs, the bigs start washing their little's feet. It may sound dumb or cheesy or biblical, but it really was a cool way of the active members showing the new pledges that even though the pledging process would be hard and even though it may seem like the pledges don't have any support, they do. It's also a way of showing them that we respect them enough to wash their feet. And it is kinda biblical. :P And then after the bigs are done washing their little's feet, they take off the blindfold and reveal who they are. I thought it was really cool and it made a huge impact on me. Definitely set the tone for pledging from then on.
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