Well, on some campuses, COB is truly continuous.

Yeah but if the PNM had at some point picked the closing house over another or if she had gotten cut from those other houses - she might not be so excited to jump back into the Frey.

Thankfully chapter closures are becoming pretty rare (and probably risk management more than low numbers), so not the concern it might have been pre-RFM. But hopefully the girl who pledged the struggling chapter would be welcomed by some other chapter. I'd love to see panhel opening quota additions for the other chapters to invite those few girls who were on their list but not quite high enough to make the cut. We've discussed over and over again that most girls who get cut weren't cut because they weren't liked; they just weren't liked ENOUGH. And at a school where quota is 50 and the closing chapter got 10 girls, most if not all of those 10 girls were probably somewhere reasonably high on plenty of other chapters' lists. And the girl who bailed on her MRABA, as far as I'm concerned, she can suck it and wait for next year. But that's where I think you should suffer your consequences. The girl who swallowed hard and accepted that bid should be rewarded with a second chance. The girl who didn't take the only option she had shouldn't get the same reward.

But I don't think any of that applies to real life. But who knows? Maybe by discussing it here it will occur to a panhellenic when faced with this problem to take care of those girls who are in a tough situation due to no fault of their own.

This is what the MOI (Green Book) says:

If through the primary recruitment process a potential member accepts a bid and then has her pledge broken by an NPC fraternity or breaks her pledge, then she is ineligible to be pledged to another NPC fraternity on the same campus until the beginning of the next year’s primary membership recruitment period.

So, it appears that none of the women who were extended bids should be available to pledge another group. It is a UA so it would take - I would think - agreement of all the groups to allow any of them - formally pledged or not - to be released to another group.

But I didn't find anything that applies to a chapter that closed.

From pat experience, It wasup to the closing chapter then to release them from their pledge - then they could be open to cOB

This is something that changed between the 2009 edition of the MOI and the 2012 edition. From the 2009 edition (under The Panhellenic Compact)

8. Women who have been pledged but not yet initiated into a chapter whose charter has been rescinded or relinquished or of a colony that has been dissolved shall be eligible to pledge another NPC fraternity immediately following the official release by the NPC fraternity.

But this language is no where to be found in the 2012 edition.

Thanks. I wondered if I was just not finding it.

I really hope that they just forgot to put it in :rolleyes: and aren't saying that pledges could be stuck for a year for something that 99% of the time is ZERO their fault.

This "primary membership recruitment period" garbage now in the MOI totally discriminates against smaller schools and chapters and can eat a hot bowl of poo, as far as I'm concerned.