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03-13-2013, 11:47 AM
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You're only a week into pledging. I think you are confused on some of the terminology. You are bound to your sorority bid until next formal recruitment at this school. Therefore, you have two choices if you have not yet been initiated. (1) If they've been suspended but may be back in the fall, you can wait and see what happens in the fall. If they are still there, resume pledging and initiate. (2) If they're not back in the fall, then re-rush in the spring when you have formal recruitment and attempt a bid among the remaining sororities.
At the very least, you can call the Office of Greek Affairs at your school to find out what is going on and what options they recommend. You can also speak to your sorority new member coordinator or president.
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03-13-2013, 11:55 AM
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Is this a local sorority or a chapter of a national sorority?
Reason for my asking is national chapters usually don't get "derecognized" and "suspended" at the same time.
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03-13-2013, 03:28 PM
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Originally Posted by adpiucf
You are bound to your sorority bid until next formal recruitment at this school.
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I don't know what school we are talking about, but this is not always true. If a chapter is suspended, they may release the NM's from their commitment.
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03-13-2013, 06:36 PM
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Originally Posted by DeltaBetaBaby
I don't know what school we are talking about, but this is not always true. If a chapter is suspended, they may release the NM's from their commitment.
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Agreed. The new members(pledges) might be free and clear to join another sorority right away.
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03-13-2013, 07:57 PM
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Originally Posted by DeltaBetaBaby
I don't know what school we are talking about, but this is not always true. If a chapter is suspended, they may release the NM's from their commitment.
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They told us that we are technically no longer "new members" but I am confused as to whether or not we are still bound to our commitment.
Also, this IS a national sorority.
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03-13-2013, 08:08 PM
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Originally Posted by kbh009
They told us that we are technically no longer "new members" but I am confused as to whether or not we are still bound to our commitment.
Also, this IS a national sorority.
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Call your sorority's HQ. All 26 NPC sororities have websites with contact information. They will be able to help you and answer your questions.
ETA: I am only talking NPC, not NPHC or any other (inter)national sorority. I try to only talk about what I know. And not get annoyed.
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03-13-2013, 08:13 PM
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Originally Posted by AzTheta
Call your sorority's HQ. All 26 NPC sororities have websites with contact information. They will be able to help you and answer your questions.
ETA: I am only talking NPC, not NPHC or any other (inter)national sorority. I try to only talk about what I know. And not get annoyed.
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In the same boat. Even if it isn't NPC, it might behoove you to talk with the (inter)national headquarters. Or try your greek life office.
I thought I had figured out the chapter, but it turns out that the guessed chapter didn't participate in recruitment this year. Hmmm, back to the drawing board.
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03-13-2013, 09:05 PM
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Does this story make sense to anybody? How could a sorority get suspended because of something one pledge did? I mean all the ones I could find in google that were recently suspended had some history of bad stuff and probation and reviews and things before it happened. Sometimes I think I am always confused here!
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03-13-2013, 09:11 PM
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Does this story make sense to anybody? How could a sorority get suspended because of something one pledge did? I mean all the ones I could find in google that were recently suspended had some history of bad stuff and probation and reviews and things before it happened. Sometimes I think I am always confused here!
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I'm sure there's more to the story - and probably a lot more. The proliferation of information in chapters can be highly inaccurate, especially in regards to risk management and corrective action.
I don't mean to discredit the OP, just pointing out that information from HQ/the university is not often reliably transferred from chapter leaderships to general members.
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