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Originally posted by PenguinTrax
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You laugh, but we had a fraternity that did this.
They would have fall (or spring) rush, and there would always be about 10 guys they would "red shirt" - they didn't officially extend a bid to them, but they would give these guys red shirts with the fraternity's letters on them. It was (very carefully) explained to them that they were NOT pledges, but if they came out for rush the following semester, they MIGHT get a bid. The red shirts were allowed at parties, but they had to do some of the grunt work the pledges never got to, such as bringing in more wood for the bonfire, or coming out to the house to clean up the next day, or dd'ing. It was like pledging, but not really getting any rewards. Each semester there was usually an "incident" where one or two of the red shirts got pissed because they weren't allowed into something that was "brothers only or "brothers and pledges only" but yet they had just spent 8 hours cleaning the house. I didn't understand 1-why the fraternity would do this, since they never had a quota limit as to how many pledges they could take, so why have red shirts to begin with, and 2-why would a guy do this? It's like the fraternity was taking complete advantage of the guy, 'cause even after all that "loyalty" he showed to the brothers, he still might not get a bid.
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