My (long) Pledging Story at a Tennessee University

[lucgreek]

I guarantee if you told your pledge educator this was the reason for you quitting he would have done something more about it. What reason did you give your pledge educator for quitting? This actually matters, because if you gave a different reason for quitting and tell other fraternities the real reason why you quit and your story is different, they won't trust you.

Did you talk to your big brother about this too? I'm sure if you gave them an ultimatum (ex: if they ask me to do this again, I'm dropping) then they probably would have backed off.

And by drugs I'm assuming you mean coke/meth/etc... I'd fully support a pledge of my org telling an active to fuck off if they kept hounding you to go out and buy them coke.


But in your new situation, you're sort of screwed because you didn't address this to your pledge educator as your reason for dropping and now when other fraternities ask about this they'll have 2 conflicting stories and most just don't want to deal with any excess baggage that will come with you.

[KiwisRugby]

The drugs that they wanted were mainly painkillers, coke, and weed. The weed wasn't such a big deal, but they also wanted painkillers and coke because those are harder to get around here, supposedly. I've had really bad experiences with people and those drugs.

The reason I gave my pledgemaster when I left was "financial" and that's what I put down on the form I had to sign; but, I was working to make ends meet so this really wasn't the problem. Only new actives could have big brothers, but I did have other guys I talked to who mainly told me to just tough it out.

There are a few guys in the frat that I am still friends with and I talked to a few friends of mine in other GLOs about it but those are guys that I have a lot of trust in to keep quiet and not spread rumors. I wouldn't want to cause trouble for the guys in fraternity (x) who aren't bayheads or Greek life in general on campus.