theta pledges

No. Theta initiates the same semester. Everywhere.

The other posters who speculate that Theta HQ told the chapter to hold off because the chapter's status was in question are probably correct.

Chi Omega is the only NPC sorority that has a national policy of holding new members over until the following semester to initiate them. All NPC sororities used to do it that way, but things changed many years ago.

No, you're right. This person is wrong. They are obviously an older alum who has no clue how things work now or is a Chi Omega because they are the only sorority that still operates that way.

probably not...because panhel wants pledges to still be able to go greek even if their chapter collapses. this isn't the first campus where something like this has happened.

This is a different situation. The theta pledges were not initiated into the chapter so they did not establish themselves in as core sisters, nor did they have any say in chapter operations. AEPHI took most of the Theta Pledges only and NOT the former active sisters of Theta. What DKE did was take all the former members (that were active) of a fraternity that got kicked out and try to repackage themselves as DKE. That is why DKE was denied IFC recognition.

No NPC sorority can take the initiated Theta sisters. There is a NPC unanimous agreement that once you've been initiated into an NPC sorority, that's it for you. You can never be a member of another even if you resign, get kicked out, your chapter closes for any reason etc. That's why Theta nationals would not allow the pledges to be initiated. They knew there was a very good possibility that they'd close the chapter because the actives kept effing up. They wanted to give the new members other options if that happened.

Fraternities have much more lax rules.

I'm not even trying to argue for DKE or anything, but this really wasnt that different. Didnt DKE only take SIG's underclassmen? And SIG was not recognized by nationals or the university so technically those kids werent actually in a fraternity when they merged with DKE. They only got in trouble because IFC had recently instituted a special rule about mergers with rogue organizations after ZBT merged w/ TKE and Psi U merged w/ Alpha Sig. Those mergers would not be allowed to happen now due to a rule meant to prevent what theta basically just did. That is the point I was making. But no such rule exists in Panhell right now

It's a totally different situation. The Thetas who are now in AEPhi were never initiated. The NPC has rules against initiated members joining another sorority so none of the active Thetas can go anywhere else ever. So there already is a national rule about it. The uninitiated Thetas had nothing to do with the reasons for the closure, so they were fine to join somewhere else from every perspective.

Fraternities are much looser about being able to get into another fraternity even when you've been initiated. So I think that's why the school stepped in since technically they were allowed to do it but those guys were in trouble with the university for the reasons they got closed in the first place.

Did you even read my last post? I'm aware the rules are different, which I explained in way too much detail

The IFC rule was put into place to prevent the guilty from changing fraternities in mass. There is no need for such a rule in the NPC since there's already a rule in place about giving bids to those initiated into other sororities (who are the ones guilty of the actions that caused the chapter to close.) the new members had nothing to do with it so no need to create some new rule to prevent them from moving to another sorority. Basically according to NPC rules it's like they weren't ever in a sorority before. So it's an entirely different situation.