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Originally posted by breathesgelatin
The thing I don't get, is in our pledge ceremony, the new members PLEDGE to become members of Pi Beta Phi. I'm sure this is true for most other groups. So why the hating on "pledge"??
OH well. 
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Because of the negative conotation of 'pledge'. Heck, some GLO think calling a pledge a 'pledge' is hazing. But they still have to have a term to call them. :\
While I was a pledge and at a community service project, when I told those I was working with I was a pledge, they (jokingly) said 'so does that mean we can make you eat dirt?' I knew they couldn't and was strong enough (psychologically) not to allow that to happen, but that's the general publics view of the term and what it means.