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Originally posted by lauralaylin
I work with a school with a small greek system, four sororities are on campus. Total is 55, and only one house was at total last spring. The other three come back to campus this fall with about 20 members. I just found out there is a meeting tomorrow where the Greek Council with the school's backing wants to not allow any greek chapter to rush this semester. School has already started, informal rush was going to start in less than two weeks, and now this is thrown at us. Since there are 3 sororities that are in great need of members, I don't see how this can be a good thing. I must admit, I don't know the situation for the fraternities.
I can't find anything in the green book about not allowing sororities to rush, but I thought that unless you are kicked off campus, that you are allowed to rush no matter what. Maybe if something bad had happened like a huge hazing or drinking incident last spring, I could understand the concern. But nothing is out of the ordinary.
This is a private school, and the chapters are all unhoused.
If anyone has any ideas or opinions about this, I'd love them.
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They can disallow chapters from holding an organized formal rush or disallow individual chapters from participating in an organized formal rush. This is because it's an activity operated by a single student group (Panhel). I think.
However, unless the chapters are on a previously announced probation, they cannot prevent you from pledging new members. This was taken to court and shown that preventing groups from pledging new members is denying freedom of association.
What was the "informal" rush going to consist of? If everyone was just going to have COB parties on their own and there is no Meet The Greeks or bid day - i.e. no organized events outside of he individual chapters - I don't think the admin has a leg to stand on.
This goes without saying, byt notify your HQ IMMEDIATELY.