New names for "pledge"

[pbear19]

Since so many organizations are becoming PC nowadays, especially on my campus, my sorority has been tossing around some of the possibilties of what to call our pledges. Nothing seems to sound quite right, so I was wondering what some of you use.

Also, one of our girls has taken to calling the pledges cubs. This is because our mascot is the panda bear. I think it's really cute, but is it too cheesy to be used as an alternative to pledge?

..sigh.. My only problem with all of these alternatives is that you can't use them as verbs. You can rush a sorority, but you can't recruitment a sorority. You can also pledge a sorority, but you can't associate member it. Oh well.