Social rules

[Eleven7]

FYI I am a regular poster on here. I made a new id because i want to keep anonymous since it is well known on the boards what school and what organization i am involved in.

The school year started a few weeks ago and we had our first social this past weekend. Everyone was really excited during the past weeks for the social, until we got an email saying that our social person and our president 'decided' that everyone needed to arrive by a certain time, and leave by a certain time.

Keep in mind, none of this is in our bylaws, policies and procedures, or any of our national procedures. And our chapter has never voted on such rule.

The social happened (I didn't go) and people were not allowed to leave until 1am. I was told by a sister that if someone tried to leave before 1am our chapter president was chasing down them in the parking lot.


At chapter this week, we were told that for socials, if we missed chapter on the Monday before the social (Ie we have chapter on monday and then the social is on thursday) we are not allowed to attend unless we email our judicial board and get excused for missing chapter.


Am I completely wrong or is this crap? I don't want to get my chapter in trouble, but as far as I thought, we were a democracy. Our social person and president cannot just 'decide' things.

I emailed the social person and president with my concerns and their responses were not what i thought. The social person said "But other organizations do it for the sole purpose of safety and it works for them"

Our president stated ". I even went today and double checked with GREEK ADVISOR. A lot of Greek life does this. Its just like any other event we hold and say you have to arrive at this time and can't leave till its over."


I don't really know where to go from here. It worries me that they can just make rules for socials which aren't considered mandatory events. I'm just afraid of what will happen next.