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IX. My AM/pledge experience 1
Well, the honeymoon was over. I got my pin, paid my dues, and was on my way to becoming a full LXA.
It was tough, but if you want something bad enough, you're not afraid to earn it, work for it and sacrifice for it.
There was some very specific guidelines while I was an AM. Obviously there was always respect the house, the brothers and represent yourself in a proper manner. But there were other rules. Each pledge/Am, being an equal member of LXA, also meant that we had equal responsibility. My fellow AM's were placed on the weekly house schedule of chores, equal to all the other brothers (although we were more likely to get basement or bathroom duty). It was fair, hell we spent more time in the house than our own dormrooms or classrooms. We were also required to attend each and every weekly meeting. It made sense. If you're going to become part of something, you need to know what's going on.
Sunday was our house meetings. It was also the time we met with our fraternity educator and schedule that weeks events. It usually consisted of a silly/weird event, fun event, teamwork event, test event, trial event or an event leading up to our initiation.
There were alot of events that were traditional to Gamma Zeta which I will not discuss on the boards. They were very old and very important. I know every chapter has their own little events that are unique to their chapter, and we were no different.
One of my favorite pledge/AM events was the Halloween Party. All the brothers got dressed up and we usually invited a bunch of other fraternities and sororities over. Every year the brothers would designate the theme for the AM/pledges customes and it became a week long event for them making their custome. There was really a couple rules 1. no degrading/risque customes 2. had to be home made, not store bought 3. had to be made as a group. My favorite would have to be the 7 Duff Dwarfs, based on a Simpsons episode. There was one episode where the 7 dwarfs from Snow White were created as Duff Beer names. Instead of Sleepy, Sloppy, you had Tipsy, Remorseful, Quesy, etc.
Alot more to come...
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