[angels&angles]

I know the year I rushed, one of the chapters on my campus did something (I was a very naive PNM, so I have no idea what) and were not allowed to sing when PNMs entered the house.

This house, we will call them XYZ, was a top chapter and also VERY creative at getting around the rules, so instead of singing, they played music and danced as PNMs entered. (After that night, they were reprimanded [although technically they broke no rules, just the spirit of the law] and had to be actually silent)

I honestly didn't notice, and it didn't really affect their recruitment, as they got a really great pledgeclass that year.

However, ever after when talking about recruitment violations, the big threat was always having our songs taken away, like XYZ. Some girls do remember it, and said it was kind of weird going through like that.

That chapter STILL gets around the rules to this day, often very creatively, although really all that means is that every year all the recruitment chairs have to sit around and talk about what it REALLY means to have identical bottles of water offered at each recruitment. I have to give XYZ credit for being really creative, but after a 3 hour conversation about bottled water, I was pretty annoyed.

Anyway, the only other thing I know about rush infractions was that one year, 30 minutes before a party started we were told we weren't allowed to hang sheets, we could only drape them (after already having been okayed on it), and we had so little time and were so annoyed we just went ahead and paid the fine.

Not sure if this is what you're looking for, hope it helps.