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Old 03-22-2023, 02:47 PM
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If you don't mind me asking, what happened there?
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Old 03-22-2023, 04:56 PM
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Pardon my lane jump- Would the released pnms of this chapter be eligible for bids this semester or do they still need to wait until the next semester?
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They could pledge right off if the other groups have space and want them. I have never seen a mass pickup by another sorority, though.
No.....are you sure? My understanding is that these women were not PNMs. They successfully received bids from the sorority, making them NMs. The OP stated that the new members were released "...two weeks after formal rush concluded". This means that they presumably signed MRABAs, received bids, and completed the pledging ceremony for the sorority. THEN the chapter closed and released them before initiation. Because they participated in formal recruitment, signed MRABAs and accepted bids, I thought these released women are now ineligible to receive any other NPC bids until next formal recruitment. Or does a chapter closing and releasing women from their pledge also release them from the NPC policy of waiting one year?


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If you don't mind me asking, what happened there?
The OP is talking about the Phi Sigma Sigma chapter at Cornell University. PSS has reportedly been experiencing low membership numbers for a period of time. The other chapters took the quota of 45 this past winter formal recruitment and PSS "only" took 25 new members. Two weeks later, PSS HQ elected to close the chapter due to low membership numbers. The OP seems to be upset 1) that PSS HQ did this and 2) that the other sororities refuse to absorb these now chapter-less members into their chapters.
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Old 03-22-2023, 05:32 PM
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Or does a chapter closing and releasing women from their pledge also release them from the NPC policy of waiting one year?
Yes.
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Old 03-22-2023, 05:35 PM
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Old 03-22-2023, 05:39 PM
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I assume it was just a typo and she meant NPC.

Mikki, we're just trying to understand your message. Reading your post carefully, it sounds like you're saying that the Phi Sigma Sigma chapter at Cornell was directed (by PSS HQ?) to release all of their new members due to them feeling that the Cornell new member class didn't fit in right with PSS as a whole.

Or, you are possibly saying that another NPC sorority on the campus did not want to offer bids to the PSS released new members because they didn't fit into their sorority?

Please help me understand. You did say in another post "I was advised it was going to go national, to all 26 due to the new potential members we allowed in". Can you expand on what you meant? National NPC? What new members did you let in? (Who is the "we"? you mention?")

I can tell you have a lot to share, and it's probably important and worth discussing, but I'm having a hard time because the posts are vague.
Mikki is not a member of any NPC group. If you do a search on this site for her screen name, you will find that out.
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Old 03-22-2023, 05:54 PM
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Or does a chapter closing and releasing women from their pledge also release them from the NPC policy of waiting one year?
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Yes.
Ok, thank you! I wasn't sure and it's been hard to follow some of the vague posts.......


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Mikki is not a member of any NPC group. If you do a search on this site for her screen name, you will find that out.
Oh, I got that.....I'm just trying to work out what all of her posts on this thread are supposed to be about...........
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Old 03-22-2023, 07:08 PM
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Way back when I was at IU, three sorority chapters closed after spring semester 1994. New members were given the option to be released or to be initiated and take alumna status after the semester. One sorority’s new members all chose to initiate, another chapter only had one new member initiate, and I’m not sure about the third. (I’m not giving away any top-secret information or gossip. There was a feature story about the chapters closing in the 1994 Arbutus yearbook.)
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Old 03-22-2023, 07:42 PM
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I think it might have occurred at Michigan a couple of years ago.
Do you have more info on that? I only know Theta closed in 2016.
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Old 03-22-2023, 08:45 PM
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I think there was some scuttlebutt that the released new members mostly went to one sorority.
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Old 03-22-2023, 08:48 PM
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I think there was some scuttlebutt that the released new members mostly went to one sorority.
Yes, so, in light of that, maybe I am misunderstanding the OP's upset? She seemed concerned that the released members didn't get a chance to be in a sorority. Apparently they were released from their pledge and MRABA and allowed to be picked up via COB.....which many were.
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Old 03-22-2023, 10:09 PM
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I was replying to Cookiez about Michigan.
Mikki, however, just seems like a troll.

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Old 03-22-2023, 11:08 PM
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I was replying to Cookiez about Michigan.
Mikki, however, just seems like a troll.
Oh sigh....I am getting so confused and mixing things up at this point. Sorry about that. But still, the Cornell sororities "could have" taken in the released PSS new members if they had wanted. If they don't want to, they don't have to.
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Old 03-23-2023, 06:14 AM
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I'm thinking that probably they were at quota, so they couldn't have if they'd wanted to anyway.
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Old 03-23-2023, 02:47 PM
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I'm thinking that probably they were at quota, so they couldn't have if they'd wanted to anyway.
But the school/ Panhellenic has the option of raising quota/ total to allow those girls to be picked up IF the organizations want to extend bids. And schools can and do put significant pressure on sororities to accept new members. We have certainly seen that happen over & over. Remember the fiasco rush at Alabama.....
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Old 03-23-2023, 03:06 PM
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For some reason, I'm thinking it wasn't Michigan, it was Indiana, and it was when Tri Delta closed and they all went AEPhi or something like that.
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