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I don't think that making a couple girls wait until the fall to get initiated is going to turn them off the Greek system. They might be a little disappointed, yes, but no woman I know would say, "Oh, well, they're not letting me initiate RIGHT NOW so I am going to de-pledge and then hate the Greek system forever."
If that is the step that the group takes, it would make the most sense that whichever ones accepted their bids last would be the ones held over until fall.
No, I don't think this is a fair solution, for the pledges at least . . . But there needs to be some sort of punishment or else groups will realize that they can get away with it and start doing it all the time. Personally I think the best thing would be for the rule books to be adapted in this case. I think the "no punishments that decrease the number of girls they can take in rush" was intended to keep Greek advisors from saying, "Oh, you can only take 20 girls in rush because you had a risk management infraction last year . . ." -- just so they wouldn't use it as a punishment for entirely unrelated issues. The punishment should fit the crime, and in this case it makes SENSE for them to take away the number of girls they can have next fall. It's not really a punishment, it's just trying to counteract the damage already done.
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