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Originally Posted by naraht
Just a general question for your group. Let's say that your fraternity/sorority has two chapters in the same city. The two schools have very different rush/pledging schedules. Chapter A has rush the week before school starts, Chapter B has rushing in October. Is it appropriate/allowed for pledges of Chapter A (who have been pledges for 5 or so weeks) to attend the pledging ritual at Chapter B?
Also, if your colonizing process has a ritual making those in the colony legally members of the fraternity/sorority but not full brothers/sisters, can those in *that* status attend a pledging ritual and vice versa.
(For Alpha Phi Omega, the answer to all of these is yes as far as I know, but I'm curious for social fraternities/sorority.
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The rules for the first scenario are pretty straightforward - the new members of Chapter A could attend the pledging ritual for those at Chapter B just as they could if there was a later pledging ritual at their own chapter. (For example, after a COB if they were below total and wanted to add a couple of girls to the existing pledge class rather than create a discrete second group.)
The colonizing question is harder. It is my understanding that - in most NPC groups - the part at which the colony members attain membership status is at initiation, and thus the new members from the second group could not attend initiation prior to their initiation. The charter is usually conferred upon the colony (making them full members) at that time - but not always (in which case they would be initiated members but not full members.) That is the part that would vary by group.
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