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Originally Posted by 33girl
What are bids to parties? Shouldn't sorority women all be welcome if the parties are open?
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I'm 95% sure I know which campus this is - it's a large university with a strong Grerk system - and yes, they have an unusual social culture in terms of how Greek life social events work. The "bid" culture extends not just to fraternity parties but also to sorority invitational events. The "bids" are usually wristbands for admission to the event (or to board the bus for a sorority social).
Typically the social chair of the organization will give out X number of bids to their party to a social chair of other opposite sex organizations. So Fraternity A gives 25 bids to Sorority A, 20 to Sorority B, 10 to Sorority C, and 0 to Sorority D, etc. The social chair of that organization then has to determine who in their organization gets the bids for each party that weekend (or whether members can get multiple bids to multiple parties). Usually individual members also get bids of their own to hand out so they can invite their own guests. Organizations have their own rules for these and might have policies where freshmen get 1 bid each, sophomores and juniors get 3 each, and seniors get 10 each.
It took me a while to grasp what this system was and I still don't fully understand it.