Dirty Rushing and Consequences

[skylark]

Originally Posted by acuisla

Getting beyond the whole concept that they spent money to have stuff printed that says "rush" on it in this day and age, the fact that the GA talked to the other groups on campus recommending this practice to them just appalled me!!! Of course there was nothing done about this.

So what do you do when the GA is even letting stuff happen???

The chapter I advise runs into similar GA problems ... the GA was in a local sorority in college and so the NPCs often are in the position of educating the GA as if she were non-greek. If education doesn't work and the GA doesn't think that she or he is doing anything wrong, then make sure all the members know that no GA or greek council or any other college official can take a panhellenic rule and throw it out the window for panhellenic groups. If ABC sorority violates a panhellenic rule, their HQ (and NPC) isn't going to give a crap that the local GA said it was okay. If the local GA said it was okay to haze, would that make it okay? Remind everyone of that (including the GA, if necessary) and if a rule is violated, address the issue with the national leadership of the offending group and your panhellenic delegate.

[33girl]

Or the GA can be a guy who just thinks the NPC rules are ridiculous.

It can be a hard line to walk - you want the women to follow NPC rules, but at the same time, if you piss the Greek advisor/host institution off, they can kick you off campus if they feel like it. One of our volunteers was upset at a GA that constantly used the word "pledge" instead of "new member" - what she didn't understand was that the campus was more locals than nationals, locals that had been there since early in the century, and we were the new kids on the block. The GA could have cared less about what NPC said was the correct term - we were in the minority.

You just have to pick your battles and see them through, rather than get upset at everything, if you're in a situation with that sort of GA. I mean, something like handing "rush XYZ" stuff out...it's that group's money to lose, and if everyone else doesn't do it, they're the ones who will look stupid.

[Thetagirl218]

I have seen dirty rushing take place at my campus, and as someone who actually follows the rules when it comes to Panhellenic recruitment, it always made me mad!

One of my friends was a double legacy of one sorority and was dirty rushed into another, and now she is unhappy with her decision of the sorority she chose.
For a long time, the Panhellenic council was not imposing fines upon sororities that took part in such activities. Now they are imposing fines, and I have seen recruitment at my school get better!

[Drolefille]

Originally Posted by acuisla

Well, what it meant to a chapter I advised is that the NPC Area Rep *and* the release figure expert were calling me and the folks above me in the organization....and then my NPC Delegate called me....and all of them wanted to know why in the heck my chapter was cutting more women than the release figures said they were supposed to. And then there was the visit after recruitment....

Despite the fact that the chapter took quota +1 - the women happened to be really good recruiters and the chapter was consistently one of the "top 3" on campus, and so they could technically afford to be a little more picky.

That said, it was a calculated risk they ran, and I let them do it. But after the NPC backlash, I didn't let them do it again. Too much drama during a high-drama time of the year.

I don't understand why they were doing that. It sounds like they wanted to be sure their numbers "worked" and that chapter over-releasing threatened their statistics. Perhaps that's a bit cynical, but it wouldn't surprise me. My chapter "over-released" my senior year, and while they did not hit quota, they COB'd to it within a few weeks. We always love our COB girls anyway and if you can't take, for example, girls with low GPAs, why string them along?