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Old 09-07-2007, 07:10 PM
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This happened to one of my sorority sisters.

At Ohio State, many house associations set up very strict rules on what you can and cannot do in the house or in public areas. For example, we could drink in our rooms, but the doors needed to be closed. Smoking was the same, but it had to be in designated smoking rooms and the roommates all had to agree if you had a smoking or non-smoking room.

When my friend went through rush, she was in a specific house whose rules were not so defined. It went like this...

Rusher: Would you like a seat?
Rushee: Wonderful, thanks

Rusher: Would you like some nuts? (handed her a nut dish)
Rushee: No, but thank you

Rusher: Coffee? (this was not a "food" round")
Rushee: No thank you

Rusher: Cigarette? (handed a glass with cigarettes)
Rushee: Ummm. No

She had no idea how to respond. So went the party
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Old 09-21-2007, 09:59 AM
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I am an advisor that was helping out with a chapter during first round. One of the actives came up and told me this story after the party.

This pnm comes in and she looks really cute but a little spacey - like her eyes are all glassy and she is stumbling over words and can't seem to follow the conversation and randomly laughs. So her rusher kinda figures that maybe she has "medicine head" or something and gives her the benefit of the doubt. Another sister comes up to talk to this pnm and realizes that she reaks of pot. The pnm also states that she is tired of standing up and decides to lean her entire body against the wall in an awkward position and for the entire party refused to move to meet other sisters or look at the table, etc.. Moral of the story -- don't show up high to a recruitment event.

Ok, there have to be other good stories out there now.....

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Old 10-02-2007, 02:03 AM
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Awk-ward...

This girl comes in with the last group of the first day of recruitment and her hair is unwashed and she isn't wearing any make-up so she really doesn't seem to fit in with any of the other girls rushing. I'm not terribly impressed, but I haven't talked to her so I don't think much of it.
Then I end up having to rescue a sister who was trying to hold a conversation with her and the girl has nothing to say. She answers in as few words as possible to every single question and then smiles at me waiting for my next question. It wasn't a conversation so much as a very direct interview.
I ask her what she is most interested in about sororities since it's the end of her first day and I find in Canada at least, a lot of girls rushing do so out of curiosity because they don't know anything about sororities besides what you see on TV. I figure that by the end of the first day, something must have caught her eye. No, not her. "well, you know..." And I'm thinking, "No! I don't know! Tell me something about yourself - anything!"
I haven't been having these problems talking with anyone all day and I am running out of things to say.
Finally, I find out she's a sophomore and ask what she was involved in last year and she says Amnesty International. At first I'm excited because it is an actual answer to a question. So I ask her about what she did with them and she starts telling me about their plans for releasing alleged terrorists from Guatanamo Bay, which is pretty controversial and I'm starting to wish I hadn't asked because she's getting into an explanation of their innocence. Sisters and rushees nearby are hearing "terrorist" and "prison" and looking over with raised eyebrows and I'm smiling awkwardly because I don't really want to talk about this anymore but I have no idea what to talk about with this impossible girl.
Luckily, someone rescued me at this point and brought her over to look at some event scrapbooks.

It was definitely the most awkward and difficult conversation of my life. I've never worked so hard to get someone to tell me essentially nothing. At then end, in spite of all the questions I asked her, all I knew about was her involvement with Amnesty International. Oh and that she didn't wash her hair that day which was on the gross side.
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Old 10-04-2007, 01:39 AM
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I'm in the middle of recruitment at the moment, and there have been some interesting moments ...

- I personally love the girls (yes, plural) who openly admit that the only reason they're rushing is so they can pledge and spy on their boyfriends in fraternities.

- PNM (we'll call her Erin) IMed a sister about a week ago and said, "Hey I'm finally coming out to rush and I LOVE TPA, so let's make it happen." My sister was flabbergasted to say the least and responded with, "Well, you can certainly come out but I can't just 'make it happen.'" A few days later, Erin approached more sisters in our cafeteria, grabbed their arms and abrasively, yet bubbily, said "Hi! I'm Erin! I'm coming out for TPA so let's *make* this happen!" It's not happening ...

- Another PNM (Suzie this time) made herself seem very suspicious. Suzie was intent on asking a lot of questions that most PNMs won't necessarily ask. They were very particular terminology questions ("Well are they called socials or mixers?", "Is it a pledge mom or a pledge sister educator?", etc) and a lot having to do with specific times, dates, places, etc etc. She ends up being a literature major, and we later on found out her "anti-sorority friends" put her up to do some "investigating." Wait ... is this ABC Family or my life?
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Old 10-04-2007, 10:41 AM
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I'm in the middle of recruitment at the moment, and there have been some interesting moments ...

- PNM (we'll call her Erin) IMed a sister about a week ago and said, "Hey I'm finally coming out to rush and I LOVE TPA, so let's make it happen." My sister was flabbergasted to say the least and responded with, "Well, you can certainly come out but I can't just 'make it happen.'" A few days later, Erin approached more sisters in our cafeteria, grabbed their arms and abrasively, yet bubbily, said "Hi! I'm Erin! I'm coming out for TPA so let's *make* this happen!" It's not happening ...

- Another PNM (Suzie this time) made herself seem very suspicious. Suzie was intent on asking a lot of questions that most PNMs won't necessarily ask. They were very particular terminology questions ("Well are they called socials or mixers?", "Is it a pledge mom or a pledge sister educator?", etc) and a lot having to do with specific times, dates, places, etc etc. She ends up being a literature major, and we later on found out her "anti-sorority friends" put her up to do some "investigating." Wait ... is this ABC Family or my life?
Wow, did either of these girls get bids?
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Old 10-04-2007, 02:12 PM
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We have an informal spring recruitment on our campus. Its kind of like a bunch of COB events and pnm's can choose what house to go to, etc. Well there was one PNM who came through last spring that had come through before and we had dropped due to a major personal conflict she had with a few of our ladies. Anyway, she was wearing the most low-cut shirt EVER (and she was not tiny in that department) and when she sat down she rested (her rusher described it as more of propped) her breasts on the table! Literally the table became a shelf for her chest. Needless to say her rusher felt very awkward, but then the PNM went on the use the F word constantly throughout the conversation....often multiple times in a sentence! We can't drop in spring, so we just never gave her a bid.

BUT then the girl approaches me in the Union a week later (I am the VP recruitment) and starts talking about how she knows her grades "couldn't get her into a chapter" (she had a very low gpa) but she really really wanted to go APhi and could I please put in a good word and pull some strings? What did she think I was, queen of recruitment? I didn't want to be rude, but I was caught off-guard so I just ended up saying something about how grades are very important, and politely made a quick exit.
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Old 10-06-2007, 10:54 AM
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Wow, did either of these girls get bids?
Nope. "Erin" got one pref, but ended up not getting a bid. "Suzie" wasn't pref'd by anyone.
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Old 10-23-2007, 02:20 PM
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We had this one girl come through who was so rude to all of my sisters. I think she may have been a legacy at another sorority and pretty much knew she was going to get in there. So, she was out to get ZTA. At one our parties, about five minutes before the party ended, she decides she has to go to the bathroom. Spent over 10 minutes in there. The little b*tch was trying to get us a rush infraction! She was cut that day.

That same day, I rushed a girl who was slightly...um...weird. First, she sat there and told me about how much she loves bowling and hopes that ZTA has bowling socials (no offense to anyone who loves bowling but this girl was going on and on about her average scores and the weight of the ball she uses). Then, she says to me, "I know that I'm not exactly thin. I'm just afraid that when I join Zeta that you all are going to stand me up in front of the whole chapter in a bikini and circle my fat." I had a heart palpitation. I said as calmly as possible, "If you joined Zeta, we would not circle your fat. We do not condone hazing." We cut her that day.
Who would go to a bathroom during a rush party? I thought it was considered rude.
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Old 10-23-2007, 02:29 PM
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Who would go to a bathroom during a rush party? I thought it was considered rude.
Somebody who has to pee? At schools where there are 10 or 16 parties and you get a beverage at each one, I can see how it would happen.
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Old 10-23-2007, 07:12 PM
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Somebody who has to pee? At schools where there are 10 or 16 parties and you get a beverage at each one, I can see how it would happen.
Of course, I can speak for every rush where there are more than 10 groups, but I know at UGA in the early 1990s you could ask to use the restroom between parties. (Rho Chis would escort people into the house, if I remember correctly, and everyone on the chapter side knew people might be in that section of the house.) While I don't think you'd absolutely get cut anyplace because you asked to use the restroom, choosing to go during a party sent a pretty clear message of disinterest, seeing as you could have elected to go before the party.
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Old 10-23-2007, 07:32 PM
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Who would go to a bathroom during a rush party? I thought it was considered rude.

I know some girls honestly have to use the restroom sometimes during a party, but my Little rushed a girl once who ment it to be rude. It was the second day, and the PNM apparently made it quite obvious that we were not one of her top choices. She only answered questions with yes or no answers and practically inhaled the food she was given. Then she asked for seconds, and when she was done with that asked to go to the bathroom. When my little pointed out that the party was going to end soon, the girl rolled her eyes and insisted that she had to go NOW.
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Old 10-23-2007, 08:12 PM
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I know some girls honestly have to use the restroom sometimes during a party, but my Little rushed a girl once who ment it to be rude. It was the second day, and the PNM apparently made it quite obvious that we were not one of her top choices. She only answered questions with yes or no answers and practically inhaled the food she was given. Then she asked for seconds, and when she was done with that asked to go to the bathroom. When my little pointed out that the party was going to end soon, the girl rolled her eyes and insisted that she had to go NOW.
So...did Miss I-Gotta-Pee-NOW end up getting a bid anywhere or did she let her sparkling personality shine through at other chapters as well? Just curious - makes you wonder how such blatantly rude people could ever receive a bid from a chapter.
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Old 10-23-2007, 08:16 PM
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So...did Miss I-Gotta-Pee-NOW end up getting a bid anywhere or did she let her sparkling personality shine through at other chapters as well? Just curious - makes you wonder how such blatantly rude people could ever receive a bid from a chapter.
I'm wondering that too.

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Somebody who has to pee? At schools where there are 10 or 16 parties and you get a beverage at each one, I can see how it would happen.

Well, I can understand that...if a girl REALLY needs to use the bathroom, then it's probably permissible. Having rushed before, I could sympathize with that.

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This girl comes in with the last group of the first day of recruitment and her hair is unwashed and she isn't wearing any make-up so she really doesn't seem to fit in with any of the other girls rushing. I'm not terribly impressed, but I haven't talked to her so I don't think much of it.
Then I end up having to rescue a sister who was trying to hold a conversation with her and the girl has nothing to say. She answers in as few words as possible to every single question and then smiles at me waiting for my next question. It wasn't a conversation so much as a very direct interview.
I ask her what she is most interested in about sororities since it's the end of her first day and I find in Canada at least, a lot of girls rushing do so out of curiosity because they don't know anything about sororities besides what you see on TV. I figure that by the end of the first day, something must have caught her eye. No, not her. "well, you know..." And I'm thinking, "No! I don't know! Tell me something about yourself - anything!"
I haven't been having these problems talking with anyone all day and I am running out of things to say.
Finally, I find out she's a sophomore and ask what she was involved in last year and she says Amnesty International. At first I'm excited because it is an actual answer to a question. So I ask her about what she did with them and she starts telling me about their plans for releasing alleged terrorists from Guatanamo Bay, which is pretty controversial and I'm starting to wish I hadn't asked because she's getting into an explanation of their innocence. Sisters and rushees nearby are hearing "terrorist" and "prison" and looking over with raised eyebrows and I'm smiling awkwardly because I don't really want to talk about this anymore but I have no idea what to talk about with this impossible girl.
Luckily, someone rescued me at this point and brought her over to look at some event scrapbooks.

It was definitely the most awkward and difficult conversation of my life. I've never worked so hard to get someone to tell me essentially nothing. At then end, in spite of all the questions I asked her, all I knew about was her involvement with Amnesty International. Oh and that she didn't wash her hair that day which was on the gross side.

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Old 10-25-2007, 09:01 PM
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So...did Miss I-Gotta-Pee-NOW end up getting a bid anywhere or did she let her sparkling personality shine through at other chapters as well? Just curious - makes you wonder how such blatantly rude people could ever receive a bid from a chapter.

Yep, she did get a bid from somewhere and she's still there too. I assume she was perfectly nice to them, although I find it really hard to believe because she was a legacy to another chapter on campus and I hear she didn't give them the time of day either. And the chapter she was a legacy to is one of our top chapters! I guess she had her house picked out and wasn't going to settle for anything else.
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Old 10-25-2007, 09:12 PM
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I'm wondering that too.

Finally, I find out she's a sophomore and ask what she was involved in last year and she says Amnesty International. At first I'm excited because it is an actual answer to a question. So I ask her about what she did with them and she starts telling me about their plans for releasing alleged terrorists from Guatanamo Bay, which is pretty controversial and I'm starting to wish I hadn't asked because she's getting into an explanation of their innocence. Sisters and rushees nearby are hearing "terrorist" and "prison" and looking over with raised eyebrows and I'm smiling awkwardly because I don't really want to talk about this anymore but I have no idea what to talk about with this impossible girl.
Luckily, someone rescued me at this point and brought her over to look at some event scrapbooks.


HA!
That's when you start with the "what's your name", "where are you from", "what's your major". Even if the person is from Timbucktu, you can typically throw out something like, "I heard they have a terrific whatever in Timbucktu".
I was lucky to know my geography so I could improvise on any situation once I knew where they were from. By the time I was bumped, I at least knew if they could put a sentence together.
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