Once you accept a bid...

[AZ-AlphaXi]

Originally Posted by Titchou

This is what the MOI (Green Book) says:

If through the primary recruitment process a potential member accepts a bid and then has her pledge broken by an NPC fraternity or breaks her pledge, then she is ineligible to be pledged to another NPC fraternity on the same campus until the beginning of the next year’s primary membership recruitment period.

So, it appears that none of the women who were extended bids should be available to pledge another group. It is a UA so it would take - I would think - agreement of all the groups to allow any of them - formally pledged or not - to be released to another group.

But I didn't find anything that applies to a chapter that closed.

This is something that changed between the 2009 edition of the MOI and the 2012 edition. From the 2009 edition (under The Panhellenic Compact)

8. Women who have been pledged but not yet initiated into a chapter whose charter has been rescinded or relinquished or of a colony that has been dissolved shall be eligible to pledge another NPC fraternity immediately following the official release by the NPC fraternity.

But this language is no where to be found in the 2012 edition.

[Titchou]

Thanks. I wondered if I was just not finding it.

[33girl]

I really hope that they just forgot to put it in and aren't saying that pledges could be stuck for a year for something that 99% of the time is ZERO their fault.

This "primary membership recruitment period" garbage now in the MOI totally discriminates against smaller schools and chapters and can eat a hot bowl of poo, as far as I'm concerned.