For our Pref night some of us had to memorize our speaking parts for the ceremony. One of my sisters had said her part fine in the previous two parties, but at the last one, she started out okay, and then completely forgot the rest of what she had to say! We tried not to laugh, but we couldn't help it. Needless to say, my sister had to make up something on the spot.

This happened the semester before I was initiated, but this story always comes up when it's time for Initiation!

One semester, two novitiates had a little too much fun after Fireside. They stayed out late and didn't get enough sleep for the 9AM Initiation. The following morning, they could barely stand up and keep their eyes open. Both sisters nearly passed out mid-ceremony.

It didn't help that a member of IHQ's INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL was present at that Initiation! She was in town for her niece's wedding and was able to make it to the Initiation ceremony.

So now I need to remind those without common sense--IF YOU KNOW THAT A MEMBER OF YOUR INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL WILL BE AT YOUR INITIATION CEREMONY, IT ISN'T WISE TO PARTY PARTY PARTY THE NIGHT BEFORE!!! :eek:

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Our fire alarm went off during our ritual! It freaked us out. We tried to call the fire dept. to say it was a flase alarm but they had to come anyway.

So the worst part isn't that we had to put everything away and it sucked but that our exec had played a prank on the in house girls and put porno mags all over the house.... :eek:

well, we thought we got them all down but the firemen found the left overs when they were turning off the fire alarm. Our president was so RED!

HA HA HA HA

Once we were in the middle of a ritual, and all of a sudden a car screeches into the driveway with lights flashing! Someone manning the door yells that its the Sheriff's Dept. (we'd been having problems with the neighbors calling the cops every time we had more than 4 cars parked at the house). Well, the poor Candidate that was in the middle of his ritual had to be yanked up, blindfolded and stuffed into a closet; while the Ritual team raked everything into a box and stuffed into another closet.

It turned out that the car was not a Sheriff at all, only one of our more rowdy brothers showing up late for the rituals! Apparently he wasn't paying attention and about passed the house, so he locked down the brakes and skidded into the driveway with his hazard lights flashing!

During initiation a fly landed on the nose of our president during a VERY VERY important part and at the same time one of our sisters stomach began growling! It was so funny half the place was laughing and there stands our president with a fly on her nose and she so lost it. It is definitely the most memorable moment!!

Another time as we were leading a newly initiated sister out she was so confused and said (she thought she was whispering but really the music stopped right then and it was loud) and says "Don't I have to do something to a live animal?"
We all lost it... poor thing felt really dumb afterwards but it was okay, me made her feel better.

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that's funny. did the firemen say anything?

There were quite a few, some legendary, some forgettable.............

Kappa Upsilon chapter initiation bloopers

1) Fall '00- (My pledge period) Our pledgemaster replaced the candles for initiation with trick candles! Even our eldest advisor thought it was funny.

2)Spring '74- The president's glasses were mysteriously misplaced, so he had to read his parts practically squinted. Because of this he mispronounced a few words and added "fornication" to the president's part of the speech (still in use to this day:))

There are a few others that I either can't mention or the stories have to much story behind them. PM me for more.

In my local sorority's new member ceremony, there was a point where the new members have to say something in unison. One of my pledge sisters wasn't quite paying attention, so when we got to that part, the rest of us spoke but she didn't say anything. The initiated sisters noticed, stopped the ceremony, and waited for her to realize that she was supposed to say something... she was so embarrassed...

One year at pref, we had set up a balloon arch consisting of a string of helium balloons tacked down at 4 points, so it looked something like: (I hope this comes out well)
We were in the middle of a very quiet part of the ceremony when one of the central points came loose - SNAP! followed by the thud of several balloons hitting the ceiling. A few minutes later, during a sister's speech, the other one went. Luckily all the balloons stayed attached to the string, and the two outer points stayed anchored... otherwise we'd have had to find a way to get several dozen balloons out of a waffle ceiling...!

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nah, they just looked at us like we were freaks.

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These are great!

My initiation was plagued with mishaps, some more humorus than others...

1. The members of my pledge class and I had the actives write down what meal preference they wanted (meat or vegetarian). On our list we had more sisters interested in veggie than meat. Somehow, on I-night, *everybody* wanted meat! We couldn't figure out what to do so we just browned some ground beef, put a little bit on each plate of spaghetti, and then covered it in sauce and stirred it around. "They won't notice..."

2. When we were washing the dishes from dinner, we broke five glasses. When the first one broke, we totally spazzed out! "Put it in the trash, no one will notice..." But then the second one broke, and the third...we were so scared but told the presdient anyway. She just laughed and told us not to worry, glasses always get broken!

3. This one's kinda gross, but one of my pledge sisters was sick and almost threw up like five million times throughout I-night. The actives let her sit out part of the night, and through it all she was making more jokes about it than anyone else!

Those are the main ones, I guess. There were definitely more; it was one heck of an evening!

i was almost set one fire once during a ceremony...

This is a great thread!!

I was under soo much stress from my other classes, so my pledge class gave me one line to read from a poem: like our wings, our bond are too strong to pull apart. What did i say 'like our bond our wings are too strong to pull apart' sonds kinda gruesome.

Of course, something else had to happen to me when we went national. There is one part where we had our eyes closed, which normally everyone is ok with-with me it was an issue. I had surgery to remove 3 nerves from both my feet so i can't feel most my feet, and i had really high heels on. i thought i was fine balence wise, after 1/2 year of physical therapy. So i was standing up, closing my eyes, and about 2 seconds later, i feel foward. And almost took out the national pres and the ritual stuff with me.

During ritual one year, our President got too close to a candle and her dress caught on fire! :eek: She didn't notice it until someone shouted, "You're on fire!"

during our model meeting, one of the sisters sort of messed up on one of her lines and i started laughing. i couldn't stop laughing for the rest of the meeting. the worst part is that it was a very somber time figuring it was the last initiation and model meeting our chapter ever had. we closed a few weeks later.

shelley j
sigma k

ps - any of you sisters eat a dove lately. i'll explain if you pm me