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Originally Posted by traditional1
Longer? Really? When do BMPledges learn the token and sign? I was told it was during the first few weeks after a bid... I have no idea if that is true, but if it is, it's completely irresponsible.
I congratulate you on founding a new chapter of this fraternity. If I thought you wanted it, I would give you any help I could. I honestly hope you do make pushups look like a cakewalk for each of and every one of your pledges. Pushups were really just a mataphor. I hope you ding your pledges, I hope you are careful in who you do and do not let into your brotherhood. I hope you offer the hardest physical and mental challenge to your pledges they ever will know, unless, perhaps they happen to enter the military.
The entire point of this thread is that Traditional chapter alums completely disagree with what you say about "Trad or BMP doesn't make a bit a difference". But otherwise what you say is entirely true. I am an alum who sticks around to make sure the traditions of my fraternity (at least at my chapter) never change.
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It takes a lot longer to learn the secrets. I have been through the Phi Rite of Passage and I do not know the token and sign, nor a few other secrets. I am learning slowly, which allows me and my class to concentrate harder on each secret, what it means, and learn how to apply it to my own life and live it. I joined Fall of '07. I agree tradition should never change, but sometimes it must evolve.
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