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Originally posted by CutiePie2000
It's a Women's Panhellenic thing, darlin'. Men can feasibly get more than one bid, women only get one bid. The Bid Card thing is a Panhellenic invention. Since you're a guy, you don't need to worry about it! 
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It may be a Panhellenic thing, but for us, you do have to sign. It's just part of accepting the bid and formally joining that house. I honestly think a lot of it has to do with the mulitiple bids so that houses cannot claim a kid who doesn't really want to be there. Also, I know that other places where there is fall rush, a rushee accepts their bid by showing up at a special party or something. Well obviously with summer rush we can't do that because the length of our rush, so in order to make the process orderly and such they have to sign it.
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Originally posted by Buttonz
I know I had to sign a Bid Card, however, there was nothing about parents needing to sign it...what's the deal with that?
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I think the reason for parents signing it is because most of the pledges will be living in the chapter house from Day 1. Since the rushee isn't just living in the dorms and going over to the fraternity house, I think it probably is pretty important that the parent's know what is going on, and the change of living quarters is a big change. I also think it is good to get teh parents involved in their son's decision to join a fraternity. For us, that's something that we really look at when choosing rush chairs, how they are going to interact with parents, and it also is why we have our Parent's day rush event.