Infractions

[littleowl33]

Originally Posted by born2bdphie

We just started using NPC formal rush last spring, and we ran into a situation where one chapter was supposedly promising bids to girls, then cutting them before pref, THEN giving them COB bids the day after pref.

That's really pretty low. That would really tick me off. I get upset when groups cheat the system like this, because it puts groups who follow the rules at a big disadvatage, especially if those groups struggle more in recruitment and the cheaters take away new members from them.

For example, one group on my campus consistently has recruitment infractions. This year, they concealed receipts from Panhel and it came to light after recruitment that they had spent over double the allowed budget. It was very obvious - while most groups do cheap things like painting paper bag puppets, their philanthropy craft was stuffing stuffed animals (their group's mascot) to give to children. Cute craft, but there was no way they could have afforded that, plus all the other stuff at their parties, and they were caught. They also are far above chapter total (by like 40 women) and made quota plus, but offered a few under-the-table bids after recruitment and told the girls not to wear letters or advertise their affiliation until after initiation, at which point it's too late to do anything. There were a few other things, but I won't get into it as it would make the group too obvious.

Another group violated the recruitment t-shirt rules one year, and had to wear their t-shirts inside out all night. That must have been really uncomfortable.

[Zillini]

There are Rules and they were written for good reasons, but there also needs to be some common sense applied. Many years back we had a J-Board that started getting a bit infraction happy. A prime example, one Rule is actives cannot cross the threshhold outside of the house. A member or two's hand or knee (the front row is on their knees with other members filling in behind them) "broke the plane" of the threshhold by like an inch or two while singing the door song and clapping. J-Board gave infractions. I appealed to the (then) Director of Greek Life and he told them they needed to back off a bit and concentrate more on "real" infractions.

[ThetaPrincess24]

Originally Posted by Zillini

There are Rules and they were written for good reasons, but there also needs to be some common sense applied. Many years back we had a J-Board that started getting a bit infraction happy. A prime example, one Rule is actives cannot cross the threshhold outside of the house. A member or two's hand or knee (the front row is on their knees with other members filling in behind them) "broke the plane" of the threshhold by like an inch or two while singing the door song and clapping. J-Board gave infractions. I appealed to the (then) Director of Greek Life and he told them they needed to back off a bit and concentrate more on "real" infractions.

I agree with that. I'm more concerned about chapters "dirty rushing/recruiting" and getting handed infractions for that instead of someone being an inch or two outside the threshhold.

[StargazerLily]

Originally Posted by AXOrushadvisor

If you have to cheat to get new members then go right ahead.

Except for the fact that the cheating chapter walks away with a much bigger new member class than the other chapters....and who gets the short end of the stick? The one who followed the rules of course.

[AXOrushadvisor]

Originally Posted by StargazerLily

Except for the fact that the cheating chapter walks away with a much bigger new member class than the other chapters....and who gets the short end of the stick? The one who followed the rules of course.

When I say cheating it is more like- singing when they are not supposed to be singing having a skit when it is against the rules- more stuff like that- enhancing their recruitment parties.

[jennyj87]

later.