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Originally Posted by KSUViolet06
When did we decide that you had to do interviews, cook dinner for sisters, and play DD for older sisters, etc. or *insert 80s pledge period thing here* or else you did not learn to think critically/take responsibility? I and the majority of my higher up volunteer counterparts did not pledge in the 80s. We are all critical thinkers!
I also do not think a NM period that holds NMs to the same standard as initiated women without having them do "pledges only" tasks infantilizes them. Or are you speaking for ASA specifically? I will admit that I know very little about the current NM period programming of other NPCs. I'd be curious as to why you think ASA's program is infantilizing. Do the NMs just literally show up to some meetings and get initiated?
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You totally misread what I was saying. It is not the specific things that are included in the program that help you learn critical thinking (and FWIW I never had to DD or cook for a sister), it is being able to decide what should be included and figuring out the best practices that help your pledges to become a vital part of YOUR chapter, YOUR campus, and YOUR community. Removing that autonomy is what's infantilizing. If there was a chapter out there who initiated pledges 3 days after giving bids and they had a strong chapter with fantastic retention, that's cool with me. If there's a chapter out there who needs a semester to attain that, that's cool with me too. Is it more work to sort through and approve different programs? Yes. Is it worth it? Yes.