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Originally posted by BBelleADPi
Someone mentioned TME. What's that?
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Total Membership Education
You can read more about it on Pride Online, so I'll summarize it here, publicly. With this TME program, ADPi stressed equality by making pre-initiated members actually members - required to attend Chapter meetings, but not exposed to Ritual things; replaced the Pledge Program with the Alpha Education Progam, eliminating "Pledges", "sisters"or "actives", replacing them with "alpha" and "delta" members. Alumnae are now "Pi" members. (Alpha = the begining; Delta = meaning change; Pi = pi goes on forever) The Alpha period lasts 4-6 weeks; the program is available online (PO). I'm sure ADPi never expressly allowed hazing, but the above-mentioned changes were institiuted with a heavy empasis on No Hazing in ADPi!
There is now a New Delta program which continues to educate members. The Well Balanced Person concept, again you can read all about it on PO.