[bolingbaker]

Tom Earp (above) has a point. Why do you allow rules to be in place if all they do is stifle competition and hurt the fraternities and sororities? At any public university, anyone can form a fraternity or sorority, and any national fraternity or sorority can come on whenever they want. IFC and Panhellenic can pass all the rules they want, but it's the law. I do not understand WHY the system leaders limit themsleves to just the people "who come through rush". Why do they have to come through rush? Why don';t aggressive fraternity & sorority members go seek new members out and solicit them to pledge? I do not understand WHY sororities, especially, put such resrtictions on smaller houses. Under the strict rules of formal rush, they can never get better. On a traditional campus where there are large, established sororities alongside weak sororities suffereing low membership, the small ones NEVER, EVER grow to competitive size, and the large ones NEVER, EVER fail to get their numbers. Don't want them to fail, but strict rush rules INSURE that no one else will ever succeed. Thank goodness most fraternities don't have rush rules. Take the shackles off! Allow the women to rush whenever they want - summer, fall, winter & spring. And don't make a rushee have to go through the whole process just to get a bid. If the 200-women houses want to limit their rush to formal rush, then fine. No problem. Rush rules are the biggest detriment to the growth and development of Greek organizations.