Coming from a campus where dirty rush is rampant, I can tell you that the one year rule thing can be bypassed, if the sorority to which the woman first accepted the bid and then depledged released the woman. It happens all the time on my campus. A woman things, oh I want to go to XYZ. Then she realizes that XYZ is hazing the hell out of their new members, so she says screw this and depledges. But she still wants to be in a sorority. So, she goes through informal rush the next semester, telling the women at the parties that she depledged XYZ last semester. If one of the groups she goes to really likes her, they go to the Greek Life Office and ask the Greek Advisor to ask the sorority to release her so she can pledge at the new house. And 9 times out of 10, they release the girl and she pledges.
At our campus, unlike most campuses, if a girl intentional single prefs (suicides) a sorority, she MAY NOT COB at that sorority if she does not get a bid through formal recruitment. We had a huge problem with this, where women in sororities would say, listen, suicide us, and if you don't get a bid, then come to our COB and we'll get you a bid that way. This made 2 sororities huge and the other 8 of average size. People started to wonder, and hence this rule was put in place. It's not like that at other schools I've done bid matching at. One place I did bid matching, girls preffed two sororities...nearly all the same two sororities. So, like half of them went bidless, while 5 sororities got like 2 new members each, and the other 2 sororities got 8 or 9. Then, COB started and all the girls that didn't get bids at the two "popular" houses went to their COB parties, COB'd to ceiling, and the other houses ended up getting maybe 3 or 4 more per house. What a mess!!!
Anyways, enough of my rant. Rush can be a dirty process, but Panhel does try to make things fair. If Greek Advisors do not implement rules properly and address problems, and if sororities do not work together instead of against each other for women, the systems will suffer.
*off soapbox and back to work*
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