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Originally posted by GeekyPenguin
A pledge is an oath, not a person! 
I think Gamma Phi Beta is actually bucking some trends on this - we're lengthening our NMEducation period. I think my chapter is now going to be holding girls over for grades, which will be good for us. It's also going to make us a very odd duck with our school, but considering that SigEp takes up to THREE YEARS to fully initiate somebody, they can't do much to us. 
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I actually think this is a good idea. I think it makes more sense to hold over for grades and to have a longer pledge period -- although not too much longer than one semester.
As for "pledge" and "new member," I do actually think that that was a good change. Pledge does have a negative connotation for a lot of non-Greeks and since things have changed a lot since the days of "pledging," it does make sense to me that the term should be changed to reflect that.
But I don't think "rush" ever had the same negative connotation as "pledge." And as 33girl pointed out, nothing has really changed when we switched from "rush" to "recruitment" -- it's still the same process.