Positivley AKA, it is good to see someone actually respect an opinion that they differ with and seek dialog rather than argument. If and when my son pledges (my org hopefully), I would hope that he has the opportunity to pledge and not MIP. For other orgs, I cannot speak, but to get the full essence, meaning, and purpose of Omega, one must pledge. The training, bonding, and life skills and lessons learned are integral to the development of the 4 Cardinal Principles. The many young men that you see misrepresenting Omega are victims of a haphazard process. NHPC groups should return to some semblance of their previous pledge process. We can either kill ourselves externally with lawsuits or internally with the divisiveness, paper vs real, suspended chapters, and lack of brotherhood/sisterhood that has resulted from MIP. It is not a prospectives fault. They are the victim. We have way more drama in Greekdom now. No wonder GDIs and the general public think that we are irrelevant (other than stepshows or parties) They see easy membership, lines of 60 to 100, disunity in chapters, bruhs fighting bruhs, sorors disrespecting sorors, Greeks didsrespecting Greeks, young members hating older ones. IT IS NOT ATTRACTIVE!!! These problems were around on a smaller level, but have been excaserbated and magnified by MIP. By the time my son gets to college I doubt if any NPHC org will exist in its undergraduate form.
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