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I'm a girl, so take it with a grain of salt as it's only what I've seen happen.
1. We have a pretty big bid day for guys. It's called Tear Night, because a guy goes to the house he's choosing and then tears up all his other bids. I kind of assume that the frats realize that if someone doesn't show up, they're not taking their bid. It's a pretty small school, so it's pretty easy to figure out who went where.
2. All the time. If you're not at class, you should be at the house (and saying you're going to class is not acceptable. Apparently some frats have brothers posted outside pledges' classes to check that they're there). The strategic way to deal with this is to schedule your classes so that they you only have an hour between classes, and can't get much done.
3. No idea, sorry.
4. This sounds good. I know one fraternity on my campus had a pledgeship that, outside of all the normal activities, included each pledge having to do one (or maybe a few) personal favor for each brother. Each pledge had a list of all the brothers on him at all times, and the brother would sign off after the favor was done. Some brothers were obviously pretty rough about it, and demanded a lot of petty little things (or big things) before signing off, but others were nice and just asked the pledge to drive them to the store. You couldn't initiate without having all the brothers sign off on you.
Hope this helped.
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