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Originally Posted by arvid1978
You're welcome to come into this lane, and I appreciate a good debate. However...
The Pledge Trainer handbook is not an authoritative document, while the national bylaws are. The content of any of the Leadership Series manuals are not voted on by national convention, and are at best a guideline. I'll look at my ritual book when I get home, but I'm 95% confident it does not say induction, it says Pledge Ceremony. The national pledging standards refer to the Pledge Ritual, not Induction. Since National Bylaws, Pledge Standards, Rituals, etc. are voted on by convention, they carry much more weight than a guide put together by alumni volunteers.
FWIW, the Leadership Series has been for all intents and purposes replaced by the APO IMPACT guides and manuals, |
None of this negates that
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Originally Posted by arvid1978
Pledge Ceremony -> called "initiation" by most people
Initiation -> called "activation" by most people
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Is stupid.
For clarity:
The Pledge Ceremony is a component of the Pledge Ritual.
A pledge ceremony should never be called an initiation, because it isn't.
A pledge ceremony could be (and in many places is) called an induction because that's what it is, especially when it an initiation is correctly defined.
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