Hmmm...
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Originally posted by carnation
Yesterday Tiger's mom (Tiger is the PNM whose rush I followed at Auburn) called, very upset, and said that she just learned that a PNM she met at AU went bidless, even though she attended 3 pref parties and ranked all 3. This is so wrong!
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First and foremost... that poor PNM! I can't imagine what it would be like to spend an evening having three different sororities tell you how much they want you to be their sister, and then not receive a bid from any of them.
I wouldn't blame her if she's bitter.
Maybe some form of guaranteed bidding would help. If you attend pref and rank all the sororities you've preffed, you are guaranteed a bid from one of them. Of course, this can be dangerous - you'd need a way to prevent a situation where everyone prefs the same 2 or 3 sororities and therefore those sororities have huge NM classes while other sororities get no one. (i.e. you'd have to adhere strictly to release figures.)
I like the spring recruitment idea. At some schools, you either go through FR (or maybe COB) as a freshman and get a bid, or you don't join a sorority at all, because non-freshmen are routinely cut for not having 4 full years ahead of them. A spring recruitment with a small quota would give PNMs a second chance at the "top" sororities (which presumably have no trouble meeting quota/total, and therefore would not otherwise do a spring rush) as well as a second look at those sororities that did not meet quota/total.
I couldn't agree more about dirty rushing. Members should be focused on selling their own org, not bashing other orgs.
Maybe reducing the number of rules would help, but we in NPC-land like our rules.
