President of Epsilon Sigma Ashley Taylor agrees with Ward. We'll have to see next year how it goes with the pledges. A specific change that Taylor is unhappy with is pledge books. The practice of pledge books involves the pledges carrying a book and having to get other members of the sorority or fraternity to sign it whenever they are encountered by the pledge. When the pledge obtains the signature from the older member, the older member gives the pledge a merit.
Merits are chores that the pledges have to do for the member.
Originally published in Vol. 91, Issue No. 23, April 6, 2000.