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Typically, as far as I've been aware on our campus, the one-year rule applies only to signed bid cards. For example, when I went through recruitment in 2005, we opened our bid cards in the theater (which is not an invasive method in practice, really) and the PNMs screamed and hugged and found the group of new sisters in the stands to walk home wiht. A couple girls in my Gamma Chi (Rho Chi) group opened their bid envelopes to get their second choice, and so were really disappointed. They honestly should have suicide preffed if they only would accept one bid, just to keep that chapter's lists accurate. Anyway, arkansas DOES guarantee a bid to every member who attends at least one pref night party. So, the girls who got their #2 choice, and were not willing to pledge choice #2, didn't show up at their bid house that day. However, because a handful of houses do open/continuous recruitment during the year, the girl was able to affiliate to a house that was not on her pref day schedule, because she never signed a bid card.
Of course, if you DO sign the bid card, you can't be in a GLO for one full year if you decide to drop out.
At least, that's the idea. A member that dropped out of our house after several weeks pledging ended up joining a house that does continuous recruitment... only weeks after we cancelled her membership. Our greek life office let that one go by the wayside, so it's possible that other things are let to slide too.