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Originally posted by AEPhiSierra
If pledging wasn't about earning membership, pledging would serve no purpose and therefore not exist -- members could be iniated right after they received bids. Simply stated - if you're not a member you shouldn't be acting as if you are by wearing letters.
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I thought the new member period wasn't just about "earning membership" but about learning more about your fraternity or sorority.
I guess like I mentioned earlier, it's all a matter of perspective. I personally LOVE that my sorority gives our new members all rights of an active member (excluding ritual, but that comes later). I love that there is no division between the new members and the initiated sisters, and I don't feel like I was "acting" as if I were a sister when I was a new member by wearing my letters. When people asked me about it, I told them I was a new member. I wasn't trying to act as if I were already initated