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Originally Posted by Low C Sharp
(Post 1507577)
Question for all the actives on the thread -- if it doesn't come too close to MS, of course -- is this kind of thing EVER true? Do any chapters actually have a policy that all the preferred rushees get to talk to the president or that the preferred rushees will sit in chairs with arms or any of the other superstitious rumors we've heard from PNMs?
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There were two incidents while I was on Panhell Exec at Illinois that we found and then subsequently punished.
One was that as soon as a PNM walked into the house the President would greet her and tell her to join a sister waiting in either the room on the left and the room on the right.
One of these rooms was designated as a "cut" room, so if the left room was the cut room, they got all the index cards the PNM gave the rusher and they would cut them all. This was done very early in the first or second rounds so judgment was purely based on looks and before any conversation.
In another sorority as each PNM left the house, their rusher would introduce them to the chapter President.
This is going to be hard to do without showing you. Imagine you are seated at a table and you have to pass a dish to someone next to you. The movement is sort of similar to an introduction to someone. "Jane" (with hands pointed to Jane, "I'd like to introduce to our president Barb" (hands move across the body to Barb, similar to the movement you make when you are passing a dish at dinner from the person on your left hand to the person on your right. Make sense?
So each PNM received this introduction. IF the rusher did this motion at the top of her body (so boob level) this meant that she liked her and was silently communicated it to the CP. IF the rusher did this motion at waist level it meant that she wanted to cut her.
During the recruitment while on Exec Board, we heard about the first story but weren't too involved with it, the Greek Affairs handled this one. I'm not sure why they did other than it is cruel and perhaps was not allowing the PNMs chances.
But for the second one, we were sent over to that house (We acted like Rho Gammas but could actually go inside the house and observe watching for infractions) as we stood outside as the women exited, sure enough we saw sisters introducing PNMs to their President - the typical cookie cutters got the hands at boob level, and after seeing the PNMs being introduced while their hands were at waist level, it was obvious that this was a system. That chapter also got in trouble.
I'm not an expert at what constitutes private membership selection and when Panhellenic gets involved. But I'm pretty sure both were deemed recruitment infractions due to the fact they both chapters were severely limiting PNMs chances from the outset instead of sticking to release figures.
This was 8 years ago so who knows what has happened since!
