bid question

[AOII Angel]

There are some campi that have a more relaxed style of recruitment (some use it all the time and others just during informal recruitment in the opposite semester from formal recruitment) that may allow PNMs to receive more than one bid. In this case, however, you would not have a pref card to fill out. You show up on bid day, get your bids, pick the one you want if there are multiple. Most campi, however, use the pref card/ one bid method. It is more exact to allow maximal number of bids to be distributed. The other method means that each chapter can give out a limited number of bids. If all groups like the same 10 girls and each gives their ten bids to those same girls, none of the groups will have quota at the end and will have to find other women to bid. You can see the problem this may pose at competitive campi.

[AlphaXi_Husky]

Originally Posted by AOII Angel

There are some campi that have a more relaxed style of recruitment (some use it all the time and others just during informal recruitment in the opposite semester from formal recruitment) that may allow PNMs to receive more than one bid. In this case, however, you would not have a pref card to fill out. You show up on bid day, get your bids, pick the one you want if there are multiple. Most campi, however, use the pref card/ one bid method. It is more exact to allow maximal number of bids to be distributed. The other method means that each chapter can give out a limited number of bids. If all groups like the same 10 girls and each gives their ten bids to those same girls, none of the groups will have quota at the end and will have to find other women to bid. You can see the problem this may pose at competitive campi.

Sorry to be picky, but it's campuses, not campi.

Originally Posted by AlphaXi_Husky

Sorry to be picky, but it's campuses, not campi.

Actually, according to this, either way is correct.

In Latin, the plural form of campus IS campi...but campuses is still correct English. It's all a matter of which word you like better.

[AlphaXi_Husky]

Originally Posted by OTW

Actually, according to this, either way is correct.

In Latin, the plural form of campus IS campi...but campuses is still correct English. It's all a matter of which word you like better.

I stand corrected

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by OTW

Actually, according to this, either way is correct.

Actually, not really, at least not according to the article to which you linked:

"Ah, the quirks of our cobbled-together language! 'Campus' and 'stadium' came to us from Latin, just as, of course, 'alumnus' did. In Latin, the plurals are "campi" and "stadia."

But this is English we're speaking. . . .

Using Latin plurals isn't necessarily classier than going with the ordinary ones. For instance, 'campuses' is completely, exclusively standard. Saying or writing "campi" is a gaffe akin to wearing formal clothes to a backyard barbecue." (Emphasis mine.)

Sorry. Couldn't resist.

[AOII Angel]

Originally Posted by MysticCat

Actually, not really, at least not according to the article to which you linked:

"Ah, the quirks of our cobbled-together language! 'Campus' and 'stadium' came to us from Latin, just as, of course, 'alumnus' did. In Latin, the plurals are "campi" and "stadia."

But this is English we're speaking. . . .

Using Latin plurals isn't necessarily classier than going with the ordinary ones. For instance, 'campuses' is completely, exclusively standard. Saying or writing "campi" is a gaffe akin to wearing formal clothes to a backyard barbecue." (Emphasis mine.)

Sorry. Couldn't resist.

You don't wear formal clothing to barbecues?

[sherryanne]

So let me get this straight: you'll always be invited back to a sorority if 1.) they don't cut you, and 2.) you put them on your list, no matter how low they are ranked on it.

On a separate note:

You rank ABC DEF and GHI as your number one and rank JKL as your number two.

I thought you're supposed to rank them as 1.) ABC 2.) DEF and 3.) GHI in order of who you liked, not all three as #1...?

[AOII Angel]

Originally Posted by AlphaXi_Husky

Sorry to be picky, but it's campuses, not campi.

Originally Posted by OTW

Actually, according to this, either way is correct.

In Latin, the plural form of campus IS campi...but campuses is still correct English. It's all a matter of which word you like better.

I actually use campuses more often in normal speech, but changed it all to campi. Glad to know that I don't sound ignorant when I fail to use campi!