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Dirty Rushing at our campus has been ghastly since I pledged, in 2005. There have been changes in the scheduling of recruitment, from before school started to now, during the first semester. It's gotten worse, of course. Most girls I knew got calls from several of our 8 houses during the off-time of Rush week. The houses would call to assure girls that they were wanted, and to confirm that the PNM would not cut their house, ABC, the next day.
So, if ABC ends up not giving her a bid, she might complain to the Greek Life Office, but what can they do about it? She didn't get a bid. They can't give her one. If she files an official complaint for dirty rushing, they get fined. Most houses do budget for fines.
A few houses have consistently released more women than allowed on the first and second nights of recruitment. That may be a hefty fine, even, but their alums and budgetting allow them too. Even if it were a difficult payment for the chapter to make financially, who cares? They don't get those women added back to their party lists for the next days of rush. They get rid of them. They get what they want. And their chapters don't have to hold on to the women that are guaranteed a bid from somebody, because of our campus's policy. No punishments can fix that. No matter what the infraction, all dirty-rushing usually gets the offending chapter little punishment. Restricting numbers would actually keep that from happening, and I'm inclined to agree with the policy.
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