First of pledging is definitely harder than boot camp. Who gives a darn if someone screams at you forever? How do I know because I went through boot camp as well. Boot camp compared to pledging is a joke. They make you do some push up and situps cycle you that's easy no big deal. Compared to pledging that's absolutely no challenge. I would be willing to bet that almost everyone I know who pledged would breeze through boot camp. The other thing is yes there are people who are on line who can't remember such and such line name or may not remember such and such poem by heart, but they proved that they wanted it. When things got hard and rough and there was no ending in sight, they dug down deep because they wanted Alpha bad enough to keep going. There are just some things you can't understand unless you pledged. On another note, every black greek national organization could fold up tent tommorow and say we don't exist anymore. Does that really mean there is no more APHIA? I don't think so. Alpha is bigger than one person, one chapter, one region, or nationals. If a national organization went bankrupt is it really unlikely that some chapter or some region wouldn't host some type of convention or reunion of brothers from all over the world. With the information age, would it really be hard not to keep people informed. I don't think so. All that being said; I don't want nationals to go bankrupt.
Another thing why would anyone want something just given to them that they didn't have to earn. To me that's a sign of a weak person. If someone told me here pay this and be whatever, I would feel like I disrespected everyone who came before me and actually worked for it. I wouldn't even want it. I would tell the person no thanks you can keep that cause what you are selling isn't worth a thing. Alpha's are the elite and historically we produce leaders. Why, because these people were tested and came out on top and then went to work to help everyone else. Do you thing it helped Dr. King to know he had a entire brotherhood to back him. People he knew went to and hell back and kept going.
Basically, if you didn't pledge you didn't earn a thing you aren't an Alpha. If you did pledge and you aren't working in the community or within the fraternity at some level, then you need to get on the ball and stop being lazy. I guess I'll never understand people who skated into a fraternity. Why would they want to join? They can do all the community service they want at the local ymca or the local church or mosque or hindu shrine.
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