I think that Pi Phi's legacy policy is the same as that of most other GLOs: we must give the rushee an invitation to at least one round of invitationals and any legacy who is asked to prefs must be put on the first bid list (i.e., must be given a bid).
No university policy would be allowed to infringe on that--in other words,neither the school nor the Panhellenic Council could force a sorority to do any more than that.
I've visited Pi Phi chapters, mostly in the West and Midwest, who have over 100 legacies come through every year and quota is 40-50! We'd be up a creek trying to figure out how to bid them all! And I know some of the traditionally Southern sororities have that problem at the big Southern schools--I've heard other sororities' advisors discussing it.
I hate it when legacies want a bid and don't get one but I don't know a good answer to the legacy issue. One chapter I was associated with cut the alum club president's daughter and there was hell to pay. As I was a young alum then, the chapter wanted me to find a tactful way to tell the president, "Sorry, but your daughter has the worst rep in town!" (There IS no tactful way to say that.)
[This message has been edited by carnation (edited June 09, 2001).]
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