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Originally Posted by 33girl
OK, I thought we were talking about colonizing pref and that's really not the same thing as regular pref. The chapter really isn't a chapter yet and as such doesn't have to follow regular formal rush rules. Which is why I made the comment I did and that's what I thought Titchou was talking about as well.
My understanding was that it is the bid list that is the thing that is binding on the sorority's part. We had a smallish discussion last week about when the bid lists are turned in, but I don't see how you could turn it in before pref when you never know, maybe 50 rushees will go to the Justin Bieber concert and get arrested the night before pref, and you obviously don't want to give them bids then. I really don't see how you could force a sorority to put everyone they invited to pref on their bid list - especially since
1) some pref ceremonies are part of ritual and who knows, maybe there's something in ritual that the rushee was supposed to do and didn't. Unless you know everyone's ritual you really can't stick your nose in it.
2) if groups are being forced to ask rushees back up to and including pref and rushees can't reject the invitation, it's basically telling chapters with lower return rates that they HAVE to take the women. They could pitch a bitch and say that Panhellenic is overstepping and denying them the right to select members as an individual organization.
This all being said, you should (you being a normal chapter, not a bunch of women from national HQ) cut them loose before pref if you don't want them to join.
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I don't know about colonization processes because I suspect they're outside of the normal rules as far as pref goes. However for the sake of formal recruitment pref, the people running recruitment - chairs, VPs, alumnae etc. - should know that anyone who
attends pref is expected to be on the bid list. (I have no idea what it would take to make an exception, however we can assume the Bieber arrestees would be in jail and miss pref thus saving us the trouble.)
1) I don't know how there would be something that a PNM is supposed to do at pref but didn't that would disqualify them from membership. That doesn't make any sense to me ritual or not. The PNM isn't any more aware of ritual than I am.
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2) Even though RFM recommends not releasing any PNMs for smaller/weaker chapters those chapters can and do still release people. Panhel has no say about what goes on in MS.
But I agree with you on the last. Carrying them to pref if you don't want them is bad form.
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Originally Posted by Titchou
Either way, colonizing pref or regular, while everyone there should be on your bid list, there are times when someone is dropped. Honest...I've seen it happen and for very good reasons.
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Maybe so, but you're talking about extreme exceptions, not rules. Whether given permission or a whether a chapter that violates policy, it would be VERY VERY rare in the grand scheme of things.
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