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Our chapter had an issue with a girl that we hopefully will not have again this year.
My first year on the "other side" she decided to go through. Her mother was an alum and had contacted the Student Life office to talk to the Greek Advisor. The girl apparently had some sort of social disorder and was awkward in social situations and her mother did not want that to hurt her, so we were duly warned.
Unfortunately it was not her problem that bothered us, but her personality. She tended to be very cocky, assuming she would get a bid because of her mom. She also was very, very whiny and almost, I hate to say it, bitchy. She was dropped from Recruitment. Her mother called, irate. It was explained that being a legacy does not guarantee a bid. She took it hard, but made it known she was interested in COBs. For whatever reason, we and other chapters managed to avoid that issue and she came to no parties.
However, next recruitment, there she is again. I was on Recruitment Team and we were warned. The advisor was genuinely concerened about the girl's mental health, because her mother had apparently advised the Student Life coordinator that she had been recently suicidal. We could not tell her not to participate. Our advisor told her honestly that she was not likely to get a bid based on last year's experience, but that if it was important to her to go through, she could. She did. Again, she was almost immediately dropped from every sorority on campus. Recruitment Team was scheduled to send members to talk to her, but the Student Life coordinator and called saying that it was not necessary, they were sending a mental health provider as she had become suicidal.
She was fixated on our chapter because of her mother and when we held COR's, sure enough, she showed up (without being invited). We were careful to keep our locations and times quiet after that, but she persisted in cornering a member in class every single day to ask her when the parties were. The member evaded when she could; because she was basically inactive that semester due to her school and job schedule, she missed most of the parties anyway and was honestly able to say she did not know when/where they were.
Apparently, according to the sister who shared a class with this girl, the girl dropped out of school soon afterward.
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