Infraction stories

[IrishLake]

During my sophomore year, we had a girl accused of one. Rush (as it was called then) was very competative, and people were turned in for looking at PNMs for too long. We had an insane silence period that year, 5 days (first and last year for that, it usually was just a 24 hour period). You could say "Hi," to a PNM, or talk to them in class about class related stuff, and that was it. She was flagged down in the cafeteria (very public, open place) by a girl on her athletic team, who happened to be sitting next to a PNM (also a member of the same athletic team). Our girl said "Hello" to the PNM, and had a quick 2 minute conversation with the non-rushee teammate about team related stuff. She was turned in for an infraction for violating the silence period. When she went in front of the Director of Greek Life, however, the whole story came out. The PNM in question, who happened to have already dropped our group, also happened to be the Directors own niece. The Director called the PNM/Niece, and straight up asked her if our girl had said anything more than "Hello." PNM/Niece said "Nope, she said hello to me, and talked to Teammate for a couple of minutes, then left." Director then decided that no infraction had occurred, and later it was decided that the 5 day silence period was a bad idea. PNM ended up not even signing her bid card and dropped out of Rush right after Pref.

There were a record number of infractions reported that year, with only 2 or 3 being legit.