UCF went from frills to no frills while I was there. At last count, the max # of balloons allowed in the chapter houses was 30. As a recruitment counselor, we were allowed to pop additional balloons if someone went over!

That was in '99. We're very strict on budgets and no frills. There's a big focus on videos, and not skits.

For those of you who do not have door songs, here is what it looks like when they open the doors to the sorority house.

http://www.uagammaphibeta.com/images...18c3_small.jpg

At EWU rush is very strict! I was disaffiliated because I'm a RA, but I wasn't even allowed to sit next to sisters in class only say hi pretty much, it was horrible. We have fall recuitment, right when the girls get here and no frills whatsoever. We have boards night where there can't be themes and no girls are allowed to sing outside of the house. Very strict and enforced as well!

Re: What's rush like at your school?
 

It can't be that strict. I know some chapters at Bama who have an actual "Chairman of Dirty Rush."

I'm talking about the process: stepping over the threshold of your house, having balloons, not shutting your doors on time- all this stuff you get fined for.

Oh yeah..we get fined for all that too.

I don't know if any of you are advisors, but on our campus we do the same thing - "snap bidding" but the PNM has to come to your pref for that to happen in formal recruitment.

I was about to say that--a girl I graduated HS with was basically "dirty rushed" by one sorority starting in FEBRUARY of our senior year by a sorority at Bama. She started school that summer and spent almost every night hanging out with them. Although if I remember correctly, she very nearly chose another sorority. So it doesn't always pay to dirty rush!
Auburn's not innocent either, but those sororities that do dirty rush are pretty much just as hardcore. As far as fraternity parties, it's like some sororities use the fraternities hardcore. A cousin of mine in a fraternity here encouraged me to come over here to go to some of their parties because they knew lots of girls in XYZ and ABC and that way I could meet them and have a leg up during recruitment. I didn't go because I had a job and I was also like, "Why do you care?" One of my most "wtf" moments ever.

It has been discussed (and supported by deferred rush advocates) that in many situations, a girl should "get to know" a chapter (at least the semester) before she goes through rush. So how is this any different than say deferred rush? Or different than COR/COB?

Kind of a follow up. What if these women were her good friends from high school? Personally, I would hope that *my friends* would want me to join their GLO. So I am confused as how one might be considered "dirty rush" and the other just hanging out with your friends and perhaps chatting about college life.

The difference is that the sorority is breaking the rules. That isn't fair to the other sororities if they aren't. Yes, I think no contact rules are stupid, but they should be CHANGED - not broken and then have the sorority pay tons of $$ for fines, $$ that could have been used in much better ways.

Our rush is NOTHING like any of yours. But then again, we have no NPC sororities (they wouldn't be able to survive).

But anyway, here's the breakdown:

1 Week of Open Rush
--Each sorority has one officially advertised night for their open. It can be as long or as short as they want it and they can do whatever they want. They can go to the zoo or drink beer all night, you know what I mean.

1 Week of Invite Rush
--Once again, each sorority has a night held for their Invite Nite. Also, they can do whatever they want. This is typically when Bids are handed to the rushees.

You have to get signed bids in to the Greek Advisor by 5 on the friday of Invite week. Then 3 to 5 weeks of pledging.

NPC
 

yeah, cause NPC sororities have rules they have to go by. It's a strict order & guidelines. Local sororities can basically do whatever they want when it comes to recruitment.

Re: NPC
 

Try not to lump all locals together, there are many local members on this board that follow the NPC guidelines for rush.

Just with my particular school, we did have NPC's (Theta Phi Alpha, Alpha Sigma Tau, Delta Gamma, Phi Sigma Sigma) however we dropped NPC's due to the numbers requirement. Many groups quit getting along with eachother and even within their own group, so we dropped them or were dropped.

Sorry for the rambling, it happens at times ;)

That I'm afraid, would have scared the crap outta me!! :o :o

:)

be very afraid... haha... joking... that sucks that the NPC sororities were acting like that?! I'm actually surprised on the Phi Sigma Sigma chapter since we have strict protocols...well, depends on what you are talking about.