Can sororities check a PNAI panhellenic background?

[UF56]

I am curious about something...

I know I have read on here where a women pledges ABC during college but ends up having to drop and then becomes an AI of XYZ. My question is how does XYZ feel about this....especially if they were originally on the AI's campus in college.

Also has someone who was initiated into a group and then later dropped ever done AI with another group? How can a group check and see? I think AI is great but sometimes I wonder if people can slip through the cracks, but I guess the same thing could happen if a collegiate pledged XYZ at one school and then transfered and rushed again to pledge ABC. Does this ever happen or am I just playing devil's adovacate?

[lake]

Originally Posted by UF56

I am curious about something...

I know I have read on here where a women pledges ABC during college but ends up having to drop and then becomes an AI of XYZ. My question is how does XYZ feel about this....especially if they were originally on the AI's campus in college.

Also has someone who was initiated into a group and then later dropped ever done AI with another group? How can a group check and see? I think AI is great but sometimes I wonder if people can slip through the cracks, but I guess the same thing could happen if a collegiate pledged XYZ at one school and then transfered and rushed again to pledge ABC. Does this ever happen or am I just playing devil's adovacate?

I think there are posters on here who've done just that (pledged one group, dropped them, then AI'd into another later on). I can't remember specifically who they are though!

On a slightly different note, I was fortunate to have had a good rush and I was lucky that I always had the maximum number of parties/events to attend each day, including Preference. But I only considered Tri Delta for AI. The other house I preferenced at was great and I really liked the women there at the time, but it wasn't quite home. Had I joined Tri Delta as an undergrad, would I have worried about what the other house I preferenced at felt about it? Or the other groups I had considered? Probably at first, but eventually life moves on and people forget that you didn't join their house - at least I hope! I'm sure the members who were initiated as undergrads could shed more light on this, whether or not there were hard feelings or not.

Ladies?

[valkyrie]

Agreed. As for those who have been initiated or are otherwise questionable, Aries has that secret members-only database.

[UF56]

Originally Posted by ariesrising

Well, I don't see pledging one group as a tie to that group forever. I think we've all heard of PNMs who accept a bid, pledge for awhile and then decide to drop for whatever reason and then rush the next year and join somewhere else. You aren't learning anything ritual during the new member period.

I agree but I guess my question is more for those who end up pledging, then dropping out and then try to AI to another group later on in life...how can that other group check to see if the PNAI was ever initiated into a chapter?

[PenguinTrax]

Originally Posted by UF56

I agree but I guess my question is more for those who end up pledging, then dropping out and then try to AI to another group later on in life...how can that other group check to see if the PNAI was ever initiated into a chapter?

You can't really. Pledging is not binding - if they never initiate, they are free to pursue membership elsewhere.

[aopirose]

Also, with privacy issues, it’s not like a non-member can call up HQ and ask if Betty Boop was initiated at Wossamotta U.

[UF56]

So then someone could initiate in college at XYZ drop out a few months later because of hard feelings and then become an AI of ABC and ABC could never check and find out. I think Panhellenic as a whole should have a database of members for GLOs to be able to check and see if women have already been initiated into another organization.

Originally Posted by UF56

I think Panhellenic as a whole should have a database of members for GLOs to be able to check and see if women have already been initiated into another organization.

How though?

By using Social Security Numbers? What about the Canadian members? They don't have SSNs.

Who'd be responsible for the maintenance of this database? I'm thinking that it be a lot of work compiling the info, updating the info with new members, deleting deceased members, etc. etc.

That's just too much work.

I don't know why an already initiated member, after learning about the sanctity of ritual, would even want to initiate into another NPC. I wouldn't know how often this takes place, but I think it's safe to say that it doesn't happen often enough to merit creating a Panhellenic database.