I'm in a BMS chapter, as well as the VP Recruitment. We don't earn our letters because as soon as we accept our bid card we get a shirt. Which demeans the fraternity. I've looked at past VPs recruiting classes and do see why it is Sigma Phi Everyone. We have guys that join because our recruiters are just too good and convince them to, and then they don't do anything in the chapter. That is detrimental to the fraternity. A pledge process would weed them out, because after they don't come to anything, we could black ball them.
I think a pledge model would solve many of our chapters commitment problems, and am not a huge fan of the BMP. Leadership is great, but half the stuff they make us do is worthless. We are a fraternity.
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