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I'll try my hand at this.
1. Penn State has a pretty informal and private bid acceptance. It's pretty hard to find out what bid a PM accepted without talking to them. I know of one case when a kid who pledged and quit my fraternity this last fall was initiated into another fraternity in the spring. The only way we found out about it was because all of his former pledge brothers saw it on his Facebook status. However, I watched the movie Haze that had a pretty formal and very public bid acceptance with representatives from all houses in one place and an announcer announcing what bids PMs accepted. Watch the movie for a better idea of that.
2. I pledged last spring and most days I spent every waking hour that I wasn't in class at the house. In fact, a lot of days I spent my sleeping hours on a couch or futon at the house as well.
3. A good sized pledge class, if everyone is at the house at the same time, which never happens, could probably get chores done in one to three hours. I probably spent on average an hour on chores. Two hours of study stipulated. Pledge Training . . . ::repressing memories:: Only once a week and took as long as it took, tended to be at least two hours, often enough more. Funnily enough, never felt like it was that long. The rest of that time, being most afternoons and into the evening, you spend chilling with brothers.
4. I've talked with Skull pledges and DU pledges at away bars during my pledgeship. You talk with a brother enough and you tend to learn things about them. Funny stories, cool or interesting facts ect. As pledges a education was a lot easier if we knew a good amount of those stories and facts. Stuff I learned is that one of my brothers is a pretty proficient pugilist. Also stories about sexual conquest/ crazy places where someone had sex, crazy drug trips, crazy things done when drunk, out of the ordinary/ difficult thefts, (house pets, banners, composites) where the kinds of things that we were expected to know about brothers.
Hope that helps.
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