Recs aren't [are!] necessary

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by Titchou

First of all, there is no "rule" that PNMs can't be told some groups require recs for a bid. Don't know where you got that.

I got it from lots of comments on this forum, such as this one in the OP:

Originally Posted by Parfait

Why do universities have to say recs aren't required even when they are at some schools? Do they have to say recs are not required as in a legal reason?

and this one by MaggieXi in the now-locked thread about the disappointing high school experience:

I'll reiterate what everyone else has says: The Greek Life office HAS to tell you that recs aren't necessary.

Oh, and I also got it from this you said:

Originally Posted by Titchou

That being said, the college PH, as an extension of NPC, cannot tell the PNMs that recs are required as they have to reflect NPC. And since NPC can't say you have to have them - as the individual groups determine what you have to have to join them - the CPH has to follow the parent organization.

If you'll notice, I was asking if I was understanding what y'all are saying, and what the Green Book says, correctly.

What the CPH can't say is that you have to get them yourself. It violates the NPC rule that was quoted previously from the Manual of Information (aka Green Book).

That's what I was asking for clarification about. But posts like the ones I quoted seem to suggest a broader proscription about what can't be said -- that PNMs can't be told recs are necessary at a given school, even if everyone who knows anything knows they really are. Hence, my desire to understand the rules better.

Anything beyond that is private MS information and no one here is going to give that out.

And now it's my turn: I don't know where, by my asking for clarification about the rule on what CPHs can and can't tell PNMs regarding recs, you thought I was asking anything about private member selection.