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Originally posted by ECUJacob
In regards to the longer pledge periods...are you allowed to have a longer pledge period now? I seem to remember that there were some new rules passed by the NIC or something that required a pledge period be less than 12 weeks (or something similar). Won't those new rules play a role in situations like this?
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First to this. NIC is not the NPC...basically, the NIC can only make suggestions. The member fraternities have the option of making them actual policy. Any rule to "take effect" would have to be passed by the General Convention. The NPC, if they approve something, then the sororities have to follow it. (There may be some limitations to this concept, like it has to be a unamious (sp?) resolution). This was something brought up at Convention this summer, but it got shot down. I know that our chapter will oppose any such measures so long as Nebraska has summer rush (which as I see it right now is pretty much forever unless something major happens...even then chapters out of habit will still recruit during the summer, particularly since pledges can live in the chapter houses).
To Oldest Pledge, I understand what you're saying, but for the most part, chapters know what's going on pretty well with their pledges. I mean for us, we always tell the pledges that we are watching them all the time. I freaked a couple of pledges out this year, coming back from Omaha and asking them about specific events that I'm sure they believe I had no business knowing seeing that I'm not even in Lincoln. It's usually never a surprise when grades are announced. The chapter knows who is going to be cutting it close.
The Code actually delineates the 2.5 GPA, and it's the only restriction that the GF places on the chapters in determining who will be initiated. And while somethings are unavoidable - most professors are usually forgiving if it's extenuating circumstance. If you know you have to get a 2.5, then you should be doing what you need to, not only for Beta, just for your education. Often times the guys who don't make grades in our chapter aren't suffering any undue stress. They just get lazy early on in the semester, don't ask for help from profs/TAs/guys in the house, and dig themselves a hole that's too big at the end.