All of these cases I've talked about (this one, similar surprise bid cases, the one with the forced prefs leading to the memberless bid class, the snatched pledge, others) were reported to PH either by me or by other adults as well as the victims. In every case, the victim was brushed off or told she could rush the next year. In the case of the snatched pledge, the affected sorority was brushed off and advised they could just pick up somebody else.
Once pledge classes are formed, it seems that little is done to punish violators; maybe PH is afraid that girls will demand a bid from their group of choice, thus making other groups demand extra members, or take the case to a higher campus court or maybe a real court and embarrass them so they sweep it under the rug. Same goes for cases in which a sorority does something awful to another one during recruitment...about three years ago, one sorority at a nearby school did something planned and horrendous to another one during recruitment. The offending group lost a couple of socials and the victims haven't recovered numberwise to this day.
And don't even get me going about the Greek advisor who felt sorry for a smaller sorority so she put a big group's top 5 from their bid list onto the bid list for a smaller group and vice versa. Boy, were those women (and sororities) surprised when bids came out...and most of the people quit, never to consider Greek life again. I know that our system usually works but there are egregious errors as well.
