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Originally Posted by AGDee
The worst cases I see are when most/all of the chapters on campus are far below Total (because Total is too high). It leads to many cases of PNMs being encouraged to drop out of formal recruitment and go through COB because they are better able to guarantee them a spot that way. It becomes quite obvious when 10 women drop out of recruitment and then all immediately go through COR with the same chapter.
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That was the case with the recruitment on my campus. Not one sorority has been able to maintain chapter total for more than a semester -- ever! However, there are only 3 sororities and the two largest do not want to lower chapter total, obviously.
Basically the dirty rushing I saw was basically gotten away with because the girls in those two largest sororities always claimed that they "didn't understand that rule" or "I thought the rule was X, not Y" and they have never had any types of sanctions for their misbehavior. In my day one sorority invited a fraternity to co-host a COB event. Another time, we were all told that we could not go to this huge fraternity party that was going on the night of preference and half of one of the sororities attended and had all sorts of "unofficial" communication with PNMs. Other times the sorority members would just make things up about the other sororities like "Don't pledge ABC chapter, they are all lesbians" (we had one lesbian member) or "Don't pledge ABC chapter, they don't let their members drink."
I just started advising my chapter as an alum, after having been out of the area for the past 5 years. I am sad to say that things have not changed and the dirty rushing seems to continue without the other sororities ever getting punished or sanctioned.
What are some ideas on how other panhellenic chapters have sanctioned for things like that?
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