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the rules are used to try and level the playing field, but they can be used as ammunition pitting chapter against chapter and it can get ugly. for instance, everyone is serving water in cups for the first round of recruitment. one chapter(sorority A) adds one lemon slice to each cup of water and another chapter(sorority B) files a rush infraction. there is no rule against lemon slices, but representatives from the accusing sorority and the accused have to meet with the greek life advisor. charges are dismissed,but a new rule is added that nothing can be added to water for next year.

next year sorority A offers pnms chilled water bottles labeled with their sorority name. Sorority B files a rush infraction. reps. from each sorority meet with the greek life advisor, who dismisses the charges, because there is no rule against what sorority A did, and gl advisor adds a rule for next year that sorority labels cannot be put on water bottles. it just goes on and on.

then there was the time chapter A was in their assigned room putting the finishing touches on their room and an alumna knocked on the door. the collegiate member opened the door and let her in, and the alum said hello and proceeded to walk around the room, looking at the decorations and the displays. when she had completed her viewing, the members present asked her where she had joined sorority A. at that point alumna tells them that she is actually an alumna of sorority B and mistakenly came into the wrong room. yeah, right. sorority A did not file an infraction because there was no rule against it-who would have thought there would need to be one? that is how lists like the one above from tarleton state come about.