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Removed the one for honor societies

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Because it is not a GREEK umbrella organization. Even professional fraternities such as Alpha Phi Omega have pledging. Honor societies do not. Because honor societies are invitation-only, they do not have recruitment events, and that goes along with the lack of pledging.

There was a time when I was dumb enough to buy arguments otherwise. Then I finally managed to pledge (Alpha Phi Omega, in fact) as a graduate student. It made me realize that "Beta Beta Beta" and others like it have misleading names. An organization with no pledging (IE probationary initial membership) has no right to a Greek letter acronym for its name, and the fact that honor societies do that is a sin. The Mysterious El Willstro (talk) 08:02, 18 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2021-05-18T08:02:00.000Z","author":"The Mysterious El Willstro","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-The_Mysterious_El_Willstro-2021-05-18T08:02:00.000Z-Removed_the_one_for_honor_societies","replies":["c-The_Mysterious_El_Willstro-2021-07-02T08:06:00.000Z-The_Mysterious_El_Willstro-2021-05-18T08:02:00.000Z"]}}-->

Withdrawn, for now. The Mysterious El Willstro (talk) 08:06, 2 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2021-07-02T08:06:00.000Z","author":"The Mysterious El Willstro","type":"comment","level":2,"id":"c-The_Mysterious_El_Willstro-2021-07-02T08:06:00.000Z-The_Mysterious_El_Willstro-2021-05-18T08:02:00.000Z","replies":[]}}-->