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NutBrnHair 01-06-2014 07:45 PM

http://i829.photobucket.com/albums/z...pse68b108a.jpg
The age of the white felt dink is unknown.
The red "bucket-style" hat with the brim up in the back, was used as a dink for a Chi Omega chapter in Ohio in the 1950s

NutBrnHair 06-19-2014 04:20 PM

Saw this on "Beanies of the Big 10"

http://library.osu.edu/projects/beanies/

LXA SE285 06-19-2014 07:11 PM

My alma mater (U of Montevallo, formerly Alabama College) used to have a number of hazing traditions, both before and after coeducation in 1956. Senior March (see link) hung on until the early '90s:

http://www.mocavo.com/Montage-Univer...1992/838567/37

tld221 06-19-2014 10:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by naraht (Post 2248417)
Also, these days is there *anything* that a Freshman would be expected to have/wear/whatever during the first part of the school year that a later year wouldn't at your school?

Expected? No. Inadvertently have because it was given to them at say, new student orientation? Sure. Freebie stuff like day planners, sunglasses, those drawstring bookbags, etc.

I'd imagine many first-year students would be so "too cool for school" to wear a beanie, and some would cry hazing (bc OMG my life and livelihood is threatened by wearing a hat!)

33girl 06-19-2014 10:48 PM

I want to know when "DON'T CARRY A PURSE OR EVERYONE WILL KNOW YOU'RE A FRESHMAN" died. My 17 years older than me cousin told me that, and she was right.

tld221 06-19-2014 11:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 33girl (Post 2278444)
I want to know when "DON'T CARRY A PURSE OR EVERYONE WILL KNOW YOU'RE A FRESHMAN" died. My 17 years older than me cousin told me that, and she was right.

a purse versus what? a bookbag? tote bag?

DrPhil 06-19-2014 11:36 PM

I never heard the don't carry a purse thing.

33girl 06-20-2014 01:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tld221 (Post 2278452)
a purse versus what? a bookbag? tote bag?

Yes.

ADPiEE 08-05-2014 11:20 PM

Are these dinks?

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-75TtokFqD0...63624102_n.jpg

http://shewasabird.blogspot.com/2012...-ra-ra-ra.html

NinjaPoodle 07-21-2017 06:23 PM

Old thread I know but ^^ yes they are.

Georgia Tech still does this tradition.

NinjaPoodle 12-03-2017 01:19 AM

And apparently so does Columbia U The FU Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Sciences! (just saw it on a utoob vid ---skip to 4:29 ---- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLh-ZnPsK9E )

aephi alum 12-03-2017 09:17 PM

I know this is a pretty old thread, but ... my initial thought was also "DINK" = "Double Income No Kids". I remember the beanies from "Animal House" but I've never heard the term "dink" in this context before.

At my mother's alma mater, St Andrews, there was the tradition of the raisin string. First year students, known as bejants or bejantines, were paired with a senior man or woman who would help get them acclimated to campus life. On Raisin Monday (in early November) the bejant/ine had to present his/her senior person with a thank-you letter, which had to be written in Latin, Greek, or Hebrew. The senior person would then present the bejant/ine with a raisin string - basically a string with little trinkets like silver charms - which the bejant/ine would attach to his/her academic robe. (All students were required to wear academic robes to class.) Until you got your raisin string, older students could haze you, which typically involved reciting verses from "Gaudeamus Igitur". It seems the tradition has morphed a bit since my mother's day, but the basic principles are the same.

APhi2KD 12-06-2017 12:23 AM

My dd pledged this year and I couldn’t believe they no longer wear pledge pins :(
(Nor are they “pledges”...) I can’t even imagine dinks!

honeychile 12-06-2017 06:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by APhi2KD (Post 2448694)
My dd pledged this year and I couldn’t believe they no longer wear pledge pins :(
(Nor are they “pledges”...) I can’t even imagine dinks!

No pledge pins? How strange!

APhi2KD 12-06-2017 11:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by honeychile (Post 2448743)
No pledge pins? How strange!

I know! Is that everywhere now or just some schools?


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