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Originally Posted by MysticCat
Not necessarily. At all.
While the pledging ceremonies/associate member ceremonies/whatever-they-may-be-called-ceremonies of some fraternities are open, not all are. In fact, without doing a study of it, I'd guess that the majority of pledging ceremonies are secret. So the mere fact that one has been through a ceremony that cannot be discussed with non-members doesn't mean one has likely been initiated.
And given that the OP is a member of a colony that will be chartered this spring and said the colony members become "official brothers" when the colony is chartered, he probably hasn't been initiated yet. Again, I haven't done a comparative study, but it is common in my experience that colony members are not initiated until chartering.
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I might have been overgeneralizing a little.
I'd be interested in knowing if other fraternities (besides DU, which is open) reveal confidential, secret information prior to their own initiation ceremony. In my GLO, for example, secrets are only revealed at the initiation ceremony. So if you knew secrets, you were most definitely an initiated member.
Slight derail but: Say a colony dissolves after two years but never gained its charter, are those members who were in the colony not considered members and never initiated? Or does the national organization initiate those guys? Seems like a raw deal if the national org just up and dumps them. (Not sure if there are general guidelines or if each GLO views this idfferently)
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