Five Towson Sororities on Probation (Alcohol)

[irishpipes]

Originally Posted by violetpretty

I am just wondering why anyone would want to drink on bid day. It's one of the most fun days of the year/semester that one does not need alcohol to enjoy herself.

/someone who pledged after the truly fun bid days of the past

[PiPhiERDoc]

Originally Posted by irishpipes

/someone who pledged after the truly fun bid days of the past

LOL - I'm glad someone else said it so I didn't have to incriminate myself...

[AOII Angel]

Originally Posted by irishpipes

Originally Posted by violetpretty
I am just wondering why anyone would want to drink on bid day. It's one of the most fun days of the year/semester that one does not need alcohol to enjoy herself.
/someone who pledged after the truly fun bid days of the past

Originally Posted by PiPhiERDoc

LOL - I'm glad someone else said it so I didn't have to incriminate myself...

I don't know when the rule started prohibiting drinking on Bid Day...we were never told there was a prohibition. Actually, the fraternities used to throw bid night parties to celebrate the event. All of the sorority members would show up in their bid day shirts and party. My bid day was the last year this was allowed, so maybe 1994 was the cut off. Of course, at the time the drinking age in Louisiana was 18 so the problem of underage drinking was not so big in our state. I was only 17 so I guess I broke the law.

[FSUZeta]

Originally Posted by AOII Angel

I don't know when the rule started prohibiting drinking on Bid Day...we were never told there was a prohibition. Actually, the fraternities used to throw bid night parties to celebrate the event. All of the sorority members would show up in their bid day shirts and party. My bid day was the last year this was allowed, so maybe 1994 was the cut off. Of course, at the time the drinking age in Louisiana was 18 so the problem of underage drinking was not so big in our state. I was only 17 so I guess I broke the law.

and the npc rule now is no alcohol or boys.

Originally Posted by AOII Angel

I don't know when the rule started prohibiting drinking on Bid Day...we were never told there was a prohibition. Actually, the fraternities used to throw bid night parties to celebrate the event. All of the sorority members would show up in their bid day shirts and party. My bid day was the last year this was allowed, so maybe 1994 was the cut off. Of course, at the time the drinking age in Louisiana was 18 so the problem of underage drinking was not so big in our state. I was only 17 so I guess I broke the law.

Originally Posted by FSUZeta

and the npc rule now is no alcohol or boys.

I couldn't find a source on the official NPC website, but a Google search on NPC+alcohol+bid day came up with a word document from the College of William and Mary's Inter-Sorority Association from 2005.

If the website is indeed factual, then

6. Following the 1991 NPC Rush Resolution, there are to be no men and/or alcohol involved in a chapter’s Bid Day celebrations or celebrations sponsored by individual members of the organization. Bid Day Celebrations will be considered any chapter/sister activity that begin between the extending of bids and 8:00am the morning following Bid Day.

I'm sure the date's somewhere in the Green Book (for whoever has a copy handy).

[blackngoldengrl]

They've got this Towson story on the local news. Talk about bad PR. You think the cameras will show up when the groups do their campus philanthropies?

ETA: Well they did show a brief NPC-wide jeans give-away for those in need ( I guess) of jeans. They also interviewed a Phi Mu sister who stated that GLO members contribute the most service and raise the most money for the community.

[AOII Angel]

Originally Posted by OTW

I couldn't find a source on the official NPC website, but a Google search on NPC+alcohol+bid day came up with a word document from the College of William and Mary's Inter-Sorority Association from 2005.

If the website is indeed factual, then

Quote:
6. Following the 1991 NPC Rush Resolution, there are to be no men and/or alcohol involved in a chapter’s Bid Day celebrations or celebrations sponsored by individual members of the organization. Bid Day Celebrations will be considered any chapter/sister activity that begin between the extending of bids and 8:00am the morning following Bid Day.

I'm sure the date's somewhere in the Green Book (for whoever has a copy handy).

I'm surprised to hear this was changed in 1991. Our Panhellenic advisor was a major stickler for rules, but she didn't make us change until 1994. After that point there were no boys or alcohol on bid day, which really made bid day more about sisterhood anyway. Also, this is a very vague rule..."sponsored celebrations" leaves a lot to the imagination. This doesn't sound like it forbids individual sisters of legal drinking age of imbibing if they do not "sponsor" the celebration with their other sisters. Of course, the Towson situation involved drinking on campus which is a completely different rule.

[33girl]

In the olden days, most of the sororities on my campus had a mixer on pledge pickup/bid day - we preferred to have a party as then if the girls had boyfriends or other people they wanted to share the event with them, they could invite them over with no problem. I've always thought it was kind of silly to go straight to a mixer with a bunch of dudes you don't know - I think this was the main reason NPC got rid of it. It took the focus off sisterhood and put it on OMG THAT SIGMA CHI WITH TEH BLUE SHIRT ON IS REALLY CUTE.

But of course, as far as parties or mixers are concerned - all they have to do is wait until the day after Bid Day to hold it.

[violetpretty]

Originally Posted by irishpipes

/someone who pledged after the truly fun bid days of the past

Has bid day changed that much since 2004?

[irishpipes]

Originally Posted by violetpretty

Has bid day changed that much since 2004?

It has changed monumentally since 1987.