Pledges or New Members?

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Originally posted by preciousjeni
As far as the original question, since by our rules these people aren't new members (barely even associate members), it would be misleading of us to call them anything but pledges.

Pledge membership is a type of membership in the fraternity. This is made fairly clear in the national by-laws and is definately true from a legal standpoint, for example from a legal standpoint, a party with brothers and pledges with it only is viewed as a members only event. For example the bylaws say: "Without gender implication, all initiated Members of the
organization are known nationally as Brothers of the Fraternity." Pledges are uninitiated members. http://www.apo.org/publications/documents/bylaws.pdf

That having been said, Pledges is still the most clear and obivious way to refer to those who have Pledge Membership. When they initiated, they are Brothers.

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