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Old 03-07-2011, 12:26 PM
tom1992 tom1992 is offline
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when does it end?

im currently pledging zbt. the system as it stands is that every week, one person gets dropped from the pledge class until the end of pledging.

last week, one of my buds got dropped and I still can't figure out what he did wrong. i'm in the 8th week of school and I am freaked out that I could be the person that goes next week.

does anyone know when the pledge process typically will end? Or does anyone have any experience with the one-cut per week tradition?
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Old 03-07-2011, 12:44 PM
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im currently pledging zbt. the system as it stands is that every week, one person gets dropped from the pledge class until the end of pledging.

last week, one of my buds got dropped and I still can't figure out what he did wrong. i'm in the 8th week of school and I am freaked out that I could be the person that goes next week.

does anyone know when the pledge process typically will end? Or does anyone have any experience with the one-cut per week tradition?
What chapter would this be?
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Old 03-07-2011, 01:15 PM
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You have no knowledge of your initiation date? I don't think your HQ would like that very much.
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Old 03-07-2011, 01:17 PM
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You have no knowledge of your initiation date? I don't think your HQ would like that very much.
With the assumption that every GLO requires chapters to inform inductees of when they will be initiated.

The OP sucks for coming here with this question.
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Old 03-07-2011, 01:22 PM
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You have no knowledge of your initiation date? I don't think your HQ would like that very much.
Considering ZBT doesn't pledge to start, I don't think the HQ would like any of this.

Major fail on the chapter and the OP for not doing his homework.
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Old 03-07-2011, 02:26 PM
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With the assumption that every GLO requires chapters to inform inductees of when they will be initiated.

The OP sucks for coming here with this question.
I made no assumptions about "every GLO". The OP stated his org.
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Old 03-07-2011, 02:38 PM
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I made no assumptions about "every GLO". The OP stated his org.
So, you know that ZBT requires inductees to know when they will be initiated? Cool.
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Old 03-07-2011, 02:40 PM
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So, you know that ZBT requires inductees to know when they will be initiated? Cool.
She may not have known prior to this but they do indeed, it's usually a couple of days after bids have been recieved and signed, if I remember correctly.
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Old 03-07-2011, 02:51 PM
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She may not have known prior to this but they do indeed, it's usually a couple of days after bids have been recieved and signed, if I remember correctly.
Yeah they must be initiated within 72 hours of receiving the bid. But, even the OP could've found that on their website, like I did, if the chapter didn't tell him and he was just wondering when he should have been initiated.

He is going through an unofficial pledge process and has been doing so for weeks. Does that mean that he hasn't received a bid yet? Does that mean he has been initiated and is now undergoing an unofficial, underground process; and wondering when that will end?

Not like it matters. LOL. And I apologize to DeltaBetaBaby.

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Old 03-07-2011, 02:53 PM
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So, you know that ZBT requires inductees to know when they will be initiated? Cool.
Their entire governance is on their website.

This is also laughable coming from the Queen of "Stay In Your Lane".
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Old 03-07-2011, 02:57 PM
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This is also laughable coming from the Queen of "Stay In Your Lane".
It's even more laughable since most of us in this thread aren't in fraternities.
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Old 03-07-2011, 08:09 PM
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When does it end? When you contact ZBT hq and ask about this process.
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Old 03-07-2011, 08:13 PM
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He would much rather come to GC. GC would know much more than the fraternity.
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Old 03-07-2011, 08:49 PM
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For a lot of fraternity chapters, the national organization is minimized, ignored, or just seen as something that exists but you never use. If you're a pledge and are taught very little about the national organization or its resources, I don't blame the OP for coming here and trying to ask other ZBT people if what's happening is correct. Especially if the OP doesn't come from a greek-life family and knows very little about pledging.

Obviously the chapter is in the wrong, but I don't get the harshness towards the OP. If his chapter told him nothing about the national organization or told pledges to not contact it (I know, reading into things here), I don't really blame the OP.

Some of you can be really harsh for no reason.

Also obligatory don't lane swerve comment.
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Old 03-07-2011, 09:05 PM
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Some of you can be really harsh for no reason.
No one was rude to the OP.
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