Truer words were never spoken.

All these years later I can sing some of those songs. It's done because it is a HUGE marketing bonus. When you have 15 chapters to keep straight, having the song in your head goes a long way. But that doesn't answer why I can still sing the DG, Pi Phi, Kappa, Tri-Delta, ADPi, Gamma Phi and A Phi songs 30 years later! Back in my day, we did the chants (no hair flipping, that's just weird) for Welcome, Welcome Back and Panorama (an extra day of rush that no longer exists). At RSVP (the round before Preference) I think we did something but it was more tame, and then for preference it was like BOOM. Serious. No chants, but beautiful songs on the lawn before inviting the girls in one by one.

I like it for the memorable part, and having it outside means you're not blowing the heads off the rushees who are sitting right next to you. But there was a lot of competition for who could be the loudest. If we couldn't drown out the Gamma Phis, we were in big trouble.

I know what you mean. I was in school from 1963-66 and I can still remember the Phi Mu lawn song and the Kappa one! They were across the street from us. Along with ours. How did I hear theirs well enough if I was singing ours????? P H I M M U, P H I MU Phi Mu! Kaa-aappa Kaa-aappa Kaa-appa Gaaa-ama, I am so haaa-aapy thaa-at I aa-aama.....

Maybe it's a Southern thing, but we use waaaaaaay too much hairspray to be flipping it around like that

Ha! We used so much Aqua Net (late eighties hairspray; not sure if it's still around) that our hair would have probably broken in half if we'd tried to flip it around!

And don't forget the dippity-do styling gel too. No way a hurricane could have moved that hair!

I think they still sell it, but I don't know if it's very popular.
Tresemme Level 5 is superglue in a can though.

More on topic: We do have stomping and wall-banging. The looks on the girls' faces Day 1 Round 1... priceless.

Maybe -- back in the day -- the origin of the hair-flipping (had NOT seen that before) was to make sure the actives don't drink during Recruitment.

There is NO WAY I could do the hair-flipping with a hangover!

Funny that you should mention it...they're still using the same songs!

YIKES!

Dippity Do...a little dab with do ya!!!

OMG...I didn't use it...but I remember the advertisement with the little pixie cut.

.......I guess I'm NOT having a senior moment. I remember!

hahahahahaha!

The hair flipping terrifies me.

This is what our door chants are like. I love our chapter house because we have 3 sets of french doors next to one another that we fill completely. It looks really awesome, I wish I had a pic/video!

my cousin used Dippity Do and orange juice cans for the perfect flip that did not move!

We all had big front steps, or patios if you will. We had to stay on the patio, but all 100 or so girls would be crammed out there. But the Pi Phis were known for backing into their door as they sang at the end of each party, all while facing forward and singing, clapping, doing the whole thing at the top of their lungs. We all wondered how they did that without breaking a leg or falling like so many dominoes. We at least had a huge, open, rectangular patio and a large front door. But a big ole French door would have been worth its weight in gold to a sorority during rush.