Placing Blame

[kddani]

Yes, I do understand Leslie's point and agree with it even, and the thread started heading in a different direction, which isn't a bad thing.

Yes we don't know the situation. Never said that we did. In my previous posts i've been careful to say that we DON'T know, but my opinion was if this WAS the truth.

Almost everyone on here agrees that 2 PNMs for one rushee is not a good rushing situation, especially when one of them dominates the entire conversation. And when there are extra sisters standing around.... And when there's no bumping involved!

These practices go against everything a rush manual will tell you, anything that you learn from your national consultants, rush chairs, etc.

I'm entitled to have the opinion (notice that the statement you quoted started with "i think"!) to say that this is bad rushing. Never did I say that I definately believed that the chapter did this. I said that IF this was this case, then it was bad rushing. No i wasn't there, yes situations could've arisen, but from all the information we have been given, this is my OPINION. And it's not an unpopular one at that, almost everyone has agreed.

And when i said about numbers being controlled, in MOST rush situations you do know how many PNMs are coming to a party, and you should do your best to prepare to rush them properly.

"I think" and "most" are not words that belong in a blanket statement, I did not issue a blanket statement.

I never said that these girls were bad people, or evil, or anything else like that. BAD RUSHING is not a cardinal sin (well, some national officers might disagree). I'm not damning these girls to hell. I'm commenting that this was not a good display of rushing skills, IF IT DID HAPPEN. Anyone who DOES think this was good rushing needs to check a rush manual, because anytime a rushee leaves feeling like TBSG did, something was done wrong! See Killarney's posts on the other thread.