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Originally posted by FuzzieAlum
Actually, no, I just said I didn't care if the pledge class had a bond or not.
Not everyone believes that letters/membership need to be earned. If you believe that, fine, but don't make the assumption that everyone else does. We offer bids to those we think are worthy; to my mind, that's all the "earning" they need to do - other than the everyday earning that each and every one of us ought to be doing to live up to our ideals. I believe that if your new members/pledges need to go through more tests of worthiness before initiating/going on line, you haven't done a good enough job of choosing who to pledge in the first place.
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and my things was that it's important that the pledge line has a strong bond. they're the ones you come into an orangizations with. so just becuase you think someone is cool from a few weeks of knowing them, you automatically give them entrance into your organization? that's what pledging is about, IMHO, pledging weeds out those (sometimes it works, other times, not so well) who don't want it enough. you can't sit there and meet someone a few times and know that person is going to be a good member. if we just gave people membership, then we'd nothing but a bunch of t-shirt wearers.