Social Questions

FightTheTide11
Thu, 12 Jan 2012 03:11:37 +0000

Apparently a few years ago, some of the fraternities wanted to enter the annual Princeton dodgeball tournament, but they were kept out because the rules state that only student organizations recognized by the university could participate (Greek organizations are not recognized). So a couple of fraternities circumvented this rule by creating special-interest groups or service organizations (whose membership consists of only the members of that certain fraternity) that could get university recognition. I wouldn’t be surprised if more of these groups (fraternities masquerading as non-fraternities) showed up and tried to identify and connect with the freshmen they want, essentially fast-tracking them to bids from those fraternities as sophomores.

Rush will still be held (for sophomores), and fraternities will still take sophomore pledge classes (probably smaller than usual) to keep membership up. The committee in charge of instituting the rush ban hasn’t released the specifics yet, but the suspected penalty for breaking rush rules is supposed to be a year-long suspension. Fraternities probably won’t want to mess with that.