Too-Detailed Sorority Recruitment Rules -- Decorations and so forth?

[OHNOITSJESS]

Originally Posted by KSUViolet06

YOU KNOW that other sororities love to tattle and I can just see someone from ABC running to tell a Rho Chi that she just walked past XYZ's room and saw that they had 17 bears on their table!

That's the first thing I thought of when I read this.

[aephi alum]

Originally Posted by KSUViolet06

YOU KNOW that other sororities love to tattle and I can just see someone from ABC running to tell a Rho Chi that she just walked past XYZ's room and saw that they had 17 bears on their table!

Originally Posted by OHNOITSJESS

That's the first thing I thought of when I read this.

So long as they weren't giraffes

It can get ridiculous. I know of an instance where an active of XYZ saw an ABC out for a jog in her letters during work week. (Wearing letters during work week was verboten.) So the XYZ active called a rush infraction against ABC. After a little research, it was discovered that the jogger was an ABC from a different school, who had no idea it was our work week, and who had just thrown on a comfy t-shirt to go for a run.

And there are two chapters (let's call them XYZ and ABC again) where XYZ sprinkles glitter on the floor of their rush room during open houses. Needless to say, this gets all over the PNMs' clothes and shoes. And every year ABC would bring XYZ up on charges of letting PNMs take "gifts" out of the rush room. We're talking about glitter...

[excelblue]

The one thing I wonder about is whether or not those ridiculous accusations actually result in sanctions, or do they just pop up as part of the drama?

[aephi alum]

Originally Posted by excelblue

The one thing I wonder about is whether or not those ridiculous accusations actually result in sanctions, or do they just pop up as part of the drama?

In the two cases I mentioned, the accusations popped up as part of the drama, but once a complaint is filed, a hearing must be held. As Panhel rep I had the dubious pleasure of being present at these hearings ... We were pretty good at separating the serious rush infractions from the "oh, ABC is in heavy competition with XYZ and is therefore trying to stick them with a fine for 'giving' glitter to their PNMs as 'gifts'" accusations.

[psusue]

Originally Posted by aephi alum

And there are two chapters (let's call them XYZ and ABC again) where XYZ sprinkles glitter on the floor of their rush room during open houses. Needless to say, this gets all over the PNMs' clothes and shoes. And every year ABC would bring XYZ up on charges of letting PNMs take "gifts" out of the rush room. We're talking about glitter...

I think the bigger question here is why would you ever sprinkle glitter on the floor during a recruitment party? Glitter is THE most annoying thing to clean up.

[lovespink88]

Originally Posted by psusue

I think the bigger question here is why would you ever sprinkle glitter on the floor during a recruitment party?

Perhaps Ke$ha was the recruitment chair?

Originally Posted by psusue

Glitter is THE most annoying thing to clean up.

"Glitter is the herpes of craft supplies" - Demetri Martin

[agzg]

Originally Posted by psusue

I think the bigger question here is why would you ever sprinkle glitter on the floor during a recruitment party? Glitter is THE most annoying thing to clean up.

It's the herpes of the craft world.

ETA: That'll teach me to not read the second page. I should have known lovespink would beat me.

[amanda6035]

Originally Posted by aephi alum

And there are two chapters (let's call them XYZ and ABC again) where XYZ sprinkles glitter on the floor of their rush room during open houses. Needless to say, this gets all over the PNMs' clothes and shoes. And every year ABC would bring XYZ up on charges of letting PNMs take "gifts" out of the rush room. We're talking about glitter...

This sounds like the year that we got called out for wearing blue jeans bc "ZOMGWTFBBQ Blue is one of your colors and you're supposed to avoid chapter colors this week!" Then the next day, their panhellenic delegate (the one who had a hissy fit over blue jeans) wore pink shorts.

[AOIIalum]

Originally Posted by KSUViolet06

YOU KNOW that other sororities love to tattle and I can just see someone from ABC running to tell a Rho Chi that she just walked past XYZ's room and saw that they had 17 bears on their table!

Originally Posted by OHNOITSJESS

That's the first thing I thought of when I read this.

From my experiences that is exactly what happens. Lots of time and energy are wasted on what I consider to be frivolous infractions instead of focusing on the parties and conversations to bring new members into our organizations. If it potentially could influence someone to join one group over another, yeah, I can see that. But come on. I'm not going to look at a tablecloth close enough to say whether it's cream colored or antique white or whatever, or am I going to encourage one of my chapters to file an infraction if they think a chapter is using the wrong shade of pink or white and so on for their tables. COMMON SENSE, PEOPLE!!! (yes, I did intend to yell there). Same goes for when a PNM inadvertently leaves a party with glitter on her shoes. No one has an "advantage" because a PNM walks out with a bit of glitter on her shoes!

[carnation]

It surely does happen, especially when one sorority dislikes another one. When I was a PH advisor, it took everything in me to keep from screaming, "GET OUT OF MY OFFICE!" when I would get the glitter on the shoes or they're-using-cream-tablecloths-instead-of-white complaints. And some of those are even put forth by alums.