silence?

[KSUViolet06]

Our period of 'strict silence' starts after Prefs and continues until Bid night.

The PNMs are confined to the Student Center from the time of the last Pref party at noon until Bid Night begins at 6 pm that night. That's SEVEN hours of just sitting in a room with your group.The Rho Chi's usually bring movies, snacks, etc to keep the girls occupied since they can't even leave that floor of the Student Center except to get food from downstairs (and even then they're escorted by a PX). They are instructed to bring a change of clothes with them when they show up in the morning because they won't be permitted to go back to their rooms unless it's an extreme emergency.

Likewise, sorority members are not permitted in the Student Center from the last Pref party until Bid Night. We're also instructed to get food off campus so that we don't run into a PNM on campus (who might be eating in one of the cafeterias if the Student Center food lines are too long). I don't think that last rule makes much sense because the PNMs are escorted by PX's if they go anywhere outside of the Student Center, and who is REALLY dumb enough to try to dirty rush a PNM who's with a Rho Chi???

[Low C Sharp]

That's SEVEN hours of just sitting in a room with your group.

I understand maintaining the silence until the pref cards are signed, but why the strict silence after that? Suppose dirty rushing is attempted...the card is already signed, sealed, and delivered. As long as there was a rule that the card cannot be changed once it is submitted, I don't see the danger.
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[KSUViolet06]

Originally Posted by Low C Sharp

I understand maintaining the silence until the pref cards are signed, but why the strict silence after that? Suppose dirty rushing is attempted...the card is already signed, sealed, and delivered. As long as there was a rule that the card cannot be changed once it is submitted, I don't see the danger.

I don't quite get it myself. The PNMs rank as soon as they get back from Pref. Their final pref cards have to be in by like 1:00. After they are turned in, they can't change them.

I guess it's not so much protecting them from 'dirty rushing' at that point. It's more about keeping sorority members from asking them who they ranked first (which has happened before they started confining PNMs to one part of campus). It also keeps them from running into sorority members on campus and asking if they're going to get a bid (which has also happened before). Both are pretty awkward situations.

[xoheatherxo]

at my college pnms could not talk from the time they got their invites to pref parties til you found out if you got a bid. we could talk to actives at events but had to be completely silent on the rides between parties and after we filled out bid cards. we were stuck in a room watching sorority life all day (i think that was a coincidence...we all thought it was kinda funny though!) i understand why we couldnt talk before we filled out bid cards though. they didnt want us to influence each others decisions by saying stuff after parties. no idea why we couldnt talk once we did our bid cards though. thats something ill never understand!

[AlphaFrog]

Originally Posted by xoheatherxo

at my college pnms could not talk from the time they got their invites to pref parties til you found out if you got a bid. we could talk to actives at events but had to be completely silent on the rides between parties and after we filled out bid cards. we were stuck in a room watching sorority life all day (i think that was a coincidence...we all thought it was kinda funny though!) i understand why we couldnt talk before we filled out bid cards though. they didnt want us to influence each others decisions by saying stuff after parties. no idea why we couldnt talk once we did our bid cards though. thats something ill never understand!

Pre-Hazing?

[ASUADPi]

I've been out of college for 5 years, so things have changed alot, but please tell me that Pan-Hellenics don't actually expect a PNM not to talk to an active (in vice versa) if they have a class together? Especially when some school recruitments are like two weekends long.