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Originally Posted by DSTCHAOS
I want you to expound on this for the sake of thread clarity.  |
Certainly.
As I've said in other places around GC (but I of course am not so puffed up that I expect people to remember), I am a brother of Alpha Phi Omega as well as Alpha Phi Alpha.
I pledged APO first, and much to my surprise, I was lined up according to height and pledged on a pledge line. I earned a "nickname" but I would later learn that there was no distinguishable difference between a nickname and a line name. (I pledged Alpha four years after APO.)
I neither pledged at an HBCU nor to a chapter which at any point in its history was influenced by BGLOs, in case you were wondering. I also pledged at a school which, at that time, had no NIC or similar fraternities.
When I attended grad school, I saw that the gentlemen in the NIC fraternities also had nicknames. As I got older, I saw that men in NIC fraternities were pledged in ways similar to my APO and Alpha experiences.
I peeked at DSTCHAOS' post and can cosign it -- everybody does things differently and we might not know unless we're there. Sometimes these things have different names, but are essentially the same things. Sometimes these things are VASTLY different but have the same name.
Even though each NPHC org has MIP, some people's MIP still includes lining up and being pledged. Others don't. The name has changed (pledging) but some traditions endure.
I guess what I am wondering is what NIC or NPC people feel is the fundamental difference between a line and a pledge class?
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