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

[Senusret I]

Originally Posted by PhoenixAzul

The people who make rules like this are the same kind of people that fold their trash.

LMAO!!! Omg i hate those people!

[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.

[33girl]

Originally Posted by wavycutchip

From my chapter advisor experience, sometimes its a lot nicer to have rules in black and white, instead of just saying "its a no-frills" recruitment.

Absolutely.

And this may not only be a frills issue - it sounds as though they are using classrooms for rush rather than it being in sorority houses. There may have been problems in the past with people bringing too much stuff to rush parties and taking forever to clear out at the end of the night.

[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.

[Titchou]

So true...the sins of the past cause the overboard rules. We have a "no live animals" clause that was in ours for some time. Now that's weird, you say? Well, one group was doing Elvis's "Hound Dog" in their skit and brought a live hound dog for it! Yep. And it was my group! I missed the first party due to work but got rid of it after that. But the damage had been done. Infraction filed but tossed out because it didn't break a rule they could find. So they added it the next year and it stayed for many years....ugh!

[carnation]

I'm trolling recruitment websites and falling on the floor laughing at some of them...here are 2 excerpts from my favorite:

(when singing to the PNMs): NO TUMBLING,JUMPING, HOPPING, SKIPPING, OR JUMPING. (Their caps and I'm wondering what on earth happened to require this rule. Hahahaha!)

A Rho Gamma will float around the room to encourage PNM participation. (I'm picturing a Rho Gamma floating around near the ceiling like a Hogwarts ghost)

This is fun! I know what I'll be doing in my spare time for the next few days, lol.

[DeltaBetaBaby]

I'm pretty sure that my alma mater had a rule that the A/C couldn't be on in the house, because it was unfair to the houses that didn't have A/C.

[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

[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.

[AOII Angel]

Originally Posted by HQWest

We just had a rule passed that you could not put balloons on the ceiling or cover the ceiling in the chapter room in any way (with fabric, streamers, etc.) during philanthropy day. We were actually very proud that someone felt strongly enough that they had to make a rule about it, because we were the only ones who did it.

Just let it go. It's not worth stewing about it, and in the end, you'll save time not having to cover the ceiling.

[carnation]

I wonder why other sororities would get mad about the ceiling being covered?

[DeltaBetaBaby]

Originally Posted by carnation

I wonder why other sororities would get mad about the ceiling being covered?

I always thought this rule was actually about fire safety, or at least, could be depending on your sprinkler set up.

[carnation]

The Phi Mus at Troy used to have a gorgeous setup at one of their parties in which they covered the ceiling and had twinkle lights shining through. The PNMs loved it!

[Low C Sharp]

I'm pretty sure that my alma mater had a rule that the A/C couldn't be on in the house, because it was unfair to the houses that didn't have A/C.

I'm wondering how far you could take this principle. No visiting the computer room on the house tour because it's unfair to houses without computer rooms?
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