[QUOTE]Originally posted by 33girl:
Hey CutiePie -
I hope you didn't think I was getting on your case or implying anything (like you would suicide bid). Okay.
I was addressing the bigger issue and your issue at the same time. In your case the local Panhel definitely deserves a spanking. Bad Panhel! Bad!
Does anyone know if a local Panhel can be "disciplined" by National Panhel for not following procedures, etc?
I guess what I'm wondering (and maybe
Pnguintrax can help out with this one)... did the local Panhel actually do something wrong? (I realize now, that, at the very least, that in "bullying me", the Rho Chi did) Or was it just my own "tough luck" that the campus that I rushed on happened to have the practice of not permitting rushees to drop groups?
Reading all these rush stories, I see how lucky I was to a) have Greek friends before I rushed and b) live in a very pro-Greek dorm. I think I absorbed a lot of the info about rush, etc. that I needed to know through osmosis. I felt that I knew a lot about Rush, but I did not know anything about bid-matching, or that you can "drop out" and potentially pledge a few weeks later. I just felt that if I dropped out, people would think that I was no longer interested, and pledging a sorority that I would have been happy in was something that I really, really wanted. I guess that's why I went through Rush to the bitter end.
As far as NPC re-addressing the year wait rule - if it could be shown that it was keeping LARGE amounts of women from going Greek they might, but until then, I doubt it.Well, I will say this....I ran into 5-8 rushees after rush to ask them where they ended up. Half of them dropped out of rush (with no intention of following up with informal rush) or they declined their bid because it was a group they didn't want (because they couldn't drop either).
Another thing I wish I had known is: I wish I had known that informal rush
existed, and took place AFTER formal rush. I had NO IDEA and I figured that if I didn't do formal rush, I would have no mechanism through which to potentially pledge.
As for the original post, when and why did the NPC come up with the rule of: "Decline your bid - no eligibility for a year". Is this so that girls don't make "flippant" decisions or......?