[PiKA2001]

Originally Posted by MikeEllis

Research continues, but I've run into a fundamental question: does pledging last one academic year or one semester? Or, like a lot of things, does this vary from school to school, too?

If so, which is probably more common, one or two pledge classes each year? If it's a year, there's more time to do things, both in real life and in these scripts, but if it's one semester then the house would have twice as many opportunities to recruit.

Please help me get this right.

By the way, there must be a simple noun for "being a pledge." What is it? Pledgehood? Pledgeship?

The pledge period is normally only one semester and it's just "a pledge" or "pledging".