Would you pledge a sorority known for dirty rushing?

[clemsongirl]

Originally Posted by Size_Small

Thank you to all the ladies who took the time to reply. I'm not sure what Titchou is referring to as "gossip," but this particular chapter was fined by the university in the past for breaking recruitment rules (I'm assuming this means that they "dirty rushed"). In addition, I realize that each school has their own rules, but at my school, making disparaging remarks about another sorority (which they have done) directly breaks the published recruitment rules. My neighbor went through rush two years ago and they told her "God has brought you here to be a part of our sisterhood" and "you belong here" (she actually ended up preffing them regardless). Sorry if I got the terminology wrong, it's not silence in the strict sense during the Summer, but no recruiting or social media contact is allowed between actives and PNMs. However, this house gets around it by having moms and alumnae host dinner parties and cookouts and use social media to recruit. I've already been invited to a graduation party where an alum told us girls "when you see what we've got prepared for you girls, you won't be able to sign your pref card fast enough." In addition, during the actual silence the week before recruitment, moms will call on PNM moms, aggressively trying to lobby their sorority.

I don't think I'd want to join a chapter that did this. It just seems beyond tacky to try and get a mother to influence her daughter to join a certain sorority. Co-sign on the on the religious references in Pref, too-I would run screaming in the opposite direction before joining them. That's a very Southern thing to do, though, so I imagine a lot of girls wouldn't find it off-putting.