See how I look out for you?

I LOVE watching probate videos. LOVE them.

I graduated from USC in 1976 - hair flipping had not started then...we were too into hair bows and Laura Ashley!!!!!!!!!!

They hair flip during door songs at Ole Miss. I was shocked when I saw it for the first time a few years ago...I would have dislocated a neck vertebra if I had to do this! Neck brace for sure...

It seems like everyone would be accidentally smacking each other in the face with their hair. We definitely would've been in the seventies with our loooong hair!

This video actually makes it look even more terribly dangerous and unhealthy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnn6FIewe-w

We have absolutely nothing like this where I'm from!

My (wavy, thin, excessive) hair would be a complete and utter mess after that! Respect to the girls who manage to look polished afterwards.

This is one of the strangest things I've ever heard of/ seen. What makes any group think this attracts PNMs? It looks terribly painful and if I were a PNM I would either not be able to control laughter if I saw this, or would say "screw this" to recruitment. Why would anyone want to join a group that promotes spinal dislocation?

Yeah, I think it looks clunky and ungraceful. Just like we tell rushees to be memorable in a good way, these chapters better have MIGHTY solid reputations or this could make them be memorable as that chapter with the awkward girls who do the weird door thing. My guess is these chapters are safe from that though ;)

I actually got the impression that all the NPC sororities at USC did this.

It was mentioned that a few chapters do it at Ole Miss.

No.

Love the doorway songs, but the hair thing looks ridiculous.

Doors stacks (with hair flipping at all) are still around at USC, though Panhellenic is working to make them safer for the actives (e.g. doing a workshop on how to do a safe door stack).

Lawn dances/porch songs are no longer allowed on campus for slideshow day though.

USC is (slowly) moving towards making its recruitment more "no-frills." There was talk about banning door stacks this year but it was decided that lawn dances/porch songs would be banned instead.

ETA every chapter at USC does door stacks & hair flipping. I personally don't get the appeal of it.

Not to sound too ignorant; but what does that even mean?


Is there an official NPC definition of what "frills" and "no-frills" recruitment is?

Haha yeah I'm convinced Greeks speak a foreign language that closely resembles English.

Lawn dances/porch songs are when the entire sorority goes running out from behind the house screaming and does a song. There was a rule that the girls couldn't move their legs (to cut down on the choreography element, I believe), so it just ended up looking really weird, with girls with stick-straight legs waving their arms around and singing as loudly as they can. It also made it really clear which houses were bigger than others, and the sizes of each house's lawn made a real difference too.

I don't think there's an official definition of "no frills" (please correct me if I'm wrong, wiser GCers!), but the idea of it is getting away from pageantry & image and moving more towards recruitment based on good conversation and Values-Based Recruitment (it's a whole thing from Phired Up).