I'm so happy for your sister and you! Good luck with that! I love hearing about Johns Hopkins (what an incredible school, by the way) and how rush went for everyone!

Congrats!

Congrats to the both of you! You sisters get to be sisters together. :) And I love that photo of you!!

At my school, PNMs and sisters can only have Normal Social Contact (Hi! How are you? Fine. Goodbye!) from January 1st until Bid Day, which is usually February 4th or 5th. Since she is my sister, I was allowed to file an exemption to be able to talk to her normally. The only thing that applied to me was strict silence between the end of Pref and beginning of Bid Night celebrations.

Thanks everyone for your congratulations! :)

Of course, congrats! I love love love your shirts.

Side note - I would think a person's legacy status could effect their cuts/bids. I know if some sisters where on the edge about a girl and she had legacy status at another house, then they would be more likely to cut. The reason being is they thought that the PNM would go through/bid at her legacy house and by cutting it gave other girls a chance to bid at their house. It boils down to why waste a bid. Not its not nice, but I have seen it done. Either way, a greater plan is at work!

That's interesting! I feel like I need a "The More You Know" sign thrown at me - I never knew such exemptions existed (and I was a Rho Gamma for 2 years!) - just goes to show - even "insiders" on recruitment don't know everything! :)

I thought they were going to let Theta recolonize with a new group of women -- what happened to that idea?
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Right so did we, but I didn't know there was an exemption for biological sisters.

I absolutely love the shirts - I wonder how many other chapters around the PNC GC world will have them next year? ;) Just remember, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery!

I also love the picture of the two of you, and her key. Question to all Kappas - have you ever noticed that pretty much all Key jewelry has a backwards Key?

What do you mean "backwards"? Like it's facing the wrong way if you turn it horizontal?

I'm almost positive one of the groups at North Texas had "Go" and "Went" shirts this year or last. I know I've seen them- Chi O or Pi Phi, maybe.

Yep, exactly. Honeychile, I see backwards keys all over the place and it drives me nuts. But I know some Kappas who either never notice or don't mind.

Their HQ voted to close the chapter for at least 12 months. That was last March/April - 12 months aren't up yet.

http://media.www.jhunewsletter.com/m...-3713697.shtml

The TCU and Univ of Texas Kappas were doing those shirts back in the early 90s when I was an active. There has been a lot of imitation and flattery as far as those go!

I don't know if it's done on a Panhel-by-Panhel basis, but that's what they decided for us and the other sisters with (bio) sisters going through recruitment. It could be different elsewhere.

That definitely makes sense. We'll probably never know if it affected her cuts, but she was happy with her schedule, so no worries!

I'm pretty sure the design was suggested to us by our headquarters/advisers/LC as a bid day shirt design Kappa wants to push nationally. I've seen it elsewhere and I love it, so I was excited when our New Member chair decided to use it!

ETA: Here are some better pictures of the design: http://www.greekchat.com/gcforums/sh...postcount=1201