Arkansas Sorority Recruitment - 2007

[carnation]

Though I never heard of it happening at Arkansas, I know for a fact that that happened when one of my daughters was rushing. I started a thread on GC but have no idea what it was called. Anyway, 2 girls in her recruitment group opened their envelopes right next to her to find the name of a third group whose parties they hadn't attended since the first day. Then I started hearing about that happening all over the state.

[texas*princess]

Originally Posted by carnation

Though I never heard of it happening at Arkansas, I know for a fact that that happened when one of my daughters was rushing. I started a thread on GC but have no idea what it was called. Anyway, 2 girls in her recruitment group opened their envelopes right next to her to find the name of a third group whose parties they hadn't attended since the first day. Then I started hearing about that happening all over the state.

Out of curiosity, if that sort of thing happened:

Girl preffed A & B and ranked A & B and signed the bid card, but comes on bid day to find a bid to C

If she declined that bid would she be bound to it for a year? I would think not since her signed bid card after pref had only A & B on it?

[carnation]

I don't see how they could hold PNMs to it since sorority C wasn't on the card they signed after prefs. My daughter said that the 2 girls never reported to sorority C, that they just left the grounds.

[fyrnymph]

That sounds worse than not getting a bid at all and getting the "dreaded phone call" - a PNM would have her hopes up that she had matched with one of her two pref parties, only to see group #3 . . . yuck.

[honeychile]

This actually happened once, when I was bid matching. A PNM "didn't understand" that putting a GLO's name down meant that she would accept the bid, and she got not A or B, but more like K. She absolutely freaked, and because of the hysteria, the Panhellenic Council decided not to hold her to the one year rule.

Frankly, I place the blame for such a thing squarely in the hands of the Rho Chi, or whatever they're called on campus.