Rerushing Question??

[DeltaBetaBaby]

Originally Posted by AzTheta

So - this is interesting, folks... Directly from the Unanimous Agreements:

4. A signed membership recruitment acceptance or a continuous open bidding (COB) acceptance is binding. If a potential member receives a bid under the preference system, she is ineligible to be pledged to any other NPC fraternity on the same campus for one calendar year.

But then we have

8. If through the primary recruitment process a potential member accepts a bid and then has her pledge broken by an NPC fraternity or breaks her pledge, then she is ineligible to be pledged to another NPC fraternity on the same campus until the beginning of the next year’s primary membership recruitment period.


So which is it, Recruitment/NPC experts? To me, the scenario described by the OP fits #8, not #4. She accepted a bid, pledged, and then broke her pledge.

I disagree. #8 specifies the primary recruitment process. She did not accept through the primary recruitment process. I think this is here to clarify the situation I described above: if you decline your bid on bid day which happens to be August 30, you can go through rush again the following year, even if bid day is on August 29.

One last thing: Why ask the Greek Life office? It's the NPC MRABA that applies here. Greek Life has been known to make mistakes. I'd check with the NPC.

Honestly, if the greek life office gets it wrong and the old chapter doesn't complain, that's what would matter, in a practical sense.

[AZTheta]

Originally Posted by DeltaBetaBaby

I disagree. #8 specifies the primary recruitment process. She did not accept through the primary recruitment process. I think this is here to clarify the situation I described above: if you decline your bid on bid day which happens to be August 30, you can go through rush again the following year, even if bid day is on August 29.



Honestly, if the greek life office gets it wrong and the old chapter doesn't complain, that's what would matter, in a practical sense.

But we don't know if Spring recruitment was the primary recruitment, because the OP didn't state that. It is getting more and more confusing to me.

Looks to me like we have some saying no, you can't rush again; and some saying yes, you can. Very interesting!

And, when I look at it again: if the OP accepted a bid, then I see where it is really #4 that applies and not #8. So, I just changed my mind!

Re: the second part of your response, very good, that is your opinion, and I'm not interested in debating or arguing with anyone about anything. I'm just trying to figure out what UA would apply here.

The devil is in the details. My head is starting to spin. This is why I don't do recruitment. It's way too complicated. I'm going swimming.

[DeltaBetaBaby]

Originally Posted by AzTheta

But we don't know if Spring recruitment was the primary recruitment, because the OP didn't state that. It is getting more and more confusing to me.

Looks to me like we have some saying no, you can't rush again; and some saying yes, you can. Very interesting!

And, when I look at it again: if the OP accepted a bid, then I see where it is really #4 that applies and not #8. So, I just changed my mind!

Re: the second part of your response, very good, that is your opinion, and I'm not interested in debating or arguing with anyone about anything. I'm just trying to figure out what UA would apply here.

The devil is in the details. My head is starting to spin. This is why I don't do recruitment. It's way too complicated. I'm going swimming.

Oh, you're right, I have a "formal recruitment is in the fall" mindset, so I was thinking spring is formal, but it could have been the other way around. Even so, #8 would mean she couldn't rush again until next spring. I don't see any way around this: if she had a bid in the spring and signed an MRABA, she can not rush again until next spring.

[33girl]

It doesn't matter when formal rush is. An MRABA is an MRABA. She cannot accept a bid from another group until spring. PERIOD. It has been this way ever since I was in school with T. Rex and Phyllis Diller.

The only ways that an MRABA does not last for the spirit of a calendar year are if the "pledge is broken." A pledge can ONLY be broken one of two ways:

1) The chapter closes before the pledge is initiated.
2) The pledge transfers to another school.

Dropping out =/= a broken pledge.

There are schools out there who don't hold formal rush so there's no way that the NPC would put up with all the women at those campuses being able to drop out from semester to semester.