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Originally posted by dzandiloo
We didn't use blackballs in my chapter--in fact, we were not even allowed to verbalize negative remarks about PNM's in front of the chapter at all. We could no-comment, which was basically as good as a negative remark, but if we had serious concerns about a girl, we had to write it down and give it to the bid committee to consider. Usually, such a note was given great weight in the bid committees decisions, but occasionally, they were made by sisters without much respect, so they were sometimes disregarded, though rarely.
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This is basically how it's done at my chapter, too, unless they've changed the process in the past few years since I've been away.
I personally never wrote in about any rushee. There was one girl who went through Rush several times, informally as well as formally, who I would have written in about if I'd needed to. She had been kicked out of her dorm during her first quarter as a freshman for starting a fight with another resident and had to drop out of Rush mid-week. By the time she was allowed to return to campus, everyone in Panhellenic pretty much knew the story. Giving her a bid just wasn't an option after that. She ended up pledging a local sorority and was kicked out by them for some bizarre behavior before initiation.