I guess I'm semi-old-school. I was a rushee, I went through rush, then I was a pledge; but some of my friends intentionally single preferenced, and then became new members. A few years later I was a rho chi.
This was in the early to mid '90s, when the terminology was just starting to drift over to the new "PC" terms. Rush was still rush, and rushees were still rushees, but suiciding was ISP'ing, and half the sororities used "pledge" while the other half used "new member". One sorority even still held initiation an entire semester, for grades.
<hijack> When I was doing my rho chi training, we had role-playing sessions where one of us would be the PX and another would be a PNM and there would be some issue. In one of those sessions, the "PNM" was acting the part of someone who had preffed two sororities and wanted to ISP... only she was told she was "suiciding"... so she began talking about actually committing suicide.
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