Ole Miss Kappa Sigma Charter Revoked (Appeal Possible)

Drolefille · #1 07-22-2006, 02:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by macallan25

I mean, I guess it could depend on the school. But I haven't ever visited one where the forbade giving out bids during the summer. Hell, I had some friends get their pins right after hs graduation ceremony was over.

The Sigma Chi's on our campus are the only ones with a house. They would hold parties during the orientation weekends for freshmen. A lot of the freshmen (guys and girls) would go to the parties instead of waking up in the morning and attending the informational things. They really got busted big time for it because it broke the school's rush rules. (The house is off campus so the only other thing they could do is bust them for alcohol.) As for the rest of the fraternities, the majority of them aren't around over the summer so there's not anyone there to rush guys.

This may just be the difference between a city school and a college town school though.

/Not ripping on the Sigma X's it's just obvious what house I'd be talking about if anyone wanted to look.

macallan25 · #2 07-22-2006, 03:27 PM

Yeah, I mean there is always alot of guys around during the summer, but everyone still obeys all of the rules during formal rush, its just that bids aren't really given out because they already have been. Even the guys with bid still have to go through the formal part.

Drolefille · #3 07-22-2006, 04:21 PM

Gotcha, do you tend to rush more sophomores or are most of the freshmen local?
I have no idea if the Sigma Chis actually give bids early or not, but I'd be doubtful if the other 12 chapters do.

If a guy isn't around in the summer and comes to rush in the fall, is there still a possibility of him recieving a bid?

shinerbock · #4 07-23-2006, 04:15 PM

I imagine McCallan is like us, in that we rush mostly incoming freshmen in that summer. I mean, a lot of them are within an hour or so driving distance, so its not a big deal for them to drive over for a band party or something. If its farther, they'll usually just come to one of the beach parties or a party in Atlanta or Charlotte or something. We rarely rush sophomores unless they are like friends of current brothers, who for parental reasons or something couldn't rush their freshmen year. Usually we don't even rush those guys, its just a given that they'll be in the next pledge class. As for the HQ and University restrictions on parties... the school has all kinds of rules, but fraternities know which ones must be followed. For example, the biggest ones we follow are no alcohol during actual formal rush, and not bringing kids to parties during orientation (CWE weekend @ AU). Those are the ones which have really busted fraternities in the past. Most of the others we can get around. Also, I don't even know what the HQ rules on rush and pledgeship are. I was pledge trainer my junior year, but I guess we just don't really pay attention.

macallan25 · #5 07-23-2006, 04:20 PM

Hahah, thats funny, I really don't think I know what our HQ restrictions are either......and I have been on Rush teams too. I don't think ive evver reallythought about it....mostly just care about the university ones.

MATLOCK · #6 07-23-2006, 11:14 PM

For Tennessee, it is a must for a fraternity to put in a good summer rush to make sure they can pull a good pledge class with guys coming from top schools in Memphis (MUS, Briarcrest, St. Benedict, Houston, CBHS), Nashville (Davidson, Ezell, MBA), Chattanooga (McCallie, Baylor) and even Jackson. The past two years or so, rush has been a 5/6 day event. Walkthroughs were on either Sunday or Monday, then there were two "informal" nights and then "invite-backs" for the other two "formal" nights and Friday would be bid-day/bid parties.

My fraternity throws a couple big parties during the summer in Knoxville and Nashville and some days on the lake in Knoxville and then at the very end of summer before the freshman go up we have a huge party in Memphis.

Its just meant to let the freshman coming in see us better than they would during rush, and for us to know who we want to rush balls on.

By the way, if you aren't having rush parties at a bar or two during rush week you won't stick out as much as the big fraternities that do. A band party is always a good idea since it brings tons of girls and music.

shinerbock · #7 07-23-2006, 11:21 PM

Yeah, even during formal rush when we can't have any alcohol, we usually take the guys out after formal rush ends (10pm each night I think). We'll have a party at someone's house or take a fraternity check to the bar.