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Sigma Alpha uses Rush and Rushee. However, in place of pledge and pledge period, we use Membership Candidate (MC for short), who goes through the Membership Candidate Education process with a Membership Candidate Educator. She receives an MC pin versus a pledge pin. Although I have no problem with the term pledge, I do like the term Membership Candidate. It really denotes that the young women are candidates for membership. Once they are activated (our term for initiation), I call them New Members. I agree that they shouldn't be called a New Member unless they have gone through the education process and have been activated. It just doesn't seem right to call them a new member when they still have to complete an education process successfully before they are allowed full membership. We also do not activate an MC until next semester in order to wait on grades.
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