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Originally Posted by 33girl
But she's still bound to you, unless you expressly release her. That doesn't sound fair.
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Originally Posted by Smile_Awhile
But it seems to be a pretty standard Panhellenic rule. Unless Lyrelyre has experienced something different, of course.  |
I know this is kind of a late response. I’ve been thinking about this issue and I don’t know what I think.
I agree that it doesn’t seem fair that a PNM is bound for a calendar year, but the chapter is not. However, if a PNM doesn’t accept a bid the chapter is allowed to “replace” her by offering a snap bid. At that point, although the PNM is bound by the bid she was offered, there isn’t a spot for her in the pledge class.
Additionally, I come from the perspective of a chapter that only does Recruitment once a year. Once the new member class is initiated in October or November we’re finished until formal fall Recruitment. So, I guess we don’t have a mechanism for a PNM who declines her bid and then attempts to accept it later. I went through my Alpha Chi Omega recruitment materials and was unable to find any reference to a rule like this. I suppose Panhellenic rules could only “force” a chapter to be bound by a bid for a calendar year if they are taking new members.
In my experience, we have had a case like this only once and it was at least 10 years ago. Campus Panhellenic contacted us about a PNM who declined her bid on Bid Day, they said she now wanted to accept the bid. We were given the option of whether or not the bid was still active. We were over total and had received quota additions, so maybe that’s why we were given an option instead of being required to take her.
It’s all very interesting to me. I am intimately familiar with a fully structured formal recruitment, but I have little experience in continuous open recruitment. I am something of a Recruitment Junkie, so I find this all fascinating.