Too-Detailed Sorority Recruitment Rules -- Decorations and so forth?

[AOIIalum]

Originally Posted by KSUViolet06

YOU KNOW that other sororities love to tattle and I can just see someone from ABC running to tell a Rho Chi that she just walked past XYZ's room and saw that they had 17 bears on their table!

Originally Posted by OHNOITSJESS

That's the first thing I thought of when I read this.

From my experiences that is exactly what happens. Lots of time and energy are wasted on what I consider to be frivolous infractions instead of focusing on the parties and conversations to bring new members into our organizations. If it potentially could influence someone to join one group over another, yeah, I can see that. But come on. I'm not going to look at a tablecloth close enough to say whether it's cream colored or antique white or whatever, or am I going to encourage one of my chapters to file an infraction if they think a chapter is using the wrong shade of pink or white and so on for their tables. COMMON SENSE, PEOPLE!!! (yes, I did intend to yell there). Same goes for when a PNM inadvertently leaves a party with glitter on her shoes. No one has an "advantage" because a PNM walks out with a bit of glitter on her shoes!

[carnation]

It surely does happen, especially when one sorority dislikes another one. When I was a PH advisor, it took everything in me to keep from screaming, "GET OUT OF MY OFFICE!" when I would get the glitter on the shoes or they're-using-cream-tablecloths-instead-of-white complaints. And some of those are even put forth by alums.