You know, DrPhil, I get pretty tired of you telling me that I don't understand your crap. We obviously come from two different places on most things. Just because I have a different perspective, doesn't mean I don't understand what you are saying.

I realize that pranks and nice things don't have anything to do with eachother in this thread, other than the fact that I suggested examples of things that would have been normal on my campus as an alternative activity to pranks. My list was neither exhaustive, nor a "must do" to be "nice". As I said, things that happened on my campus, not necessarily something that would fly on all campuses. I'm not sure why this came to a debate of specific items, rather than intention. If the OP doesn't like my suggestions she would be free to fill in her own.

I'm not the only one who sees irony here. I stopped reading here. LOL.

I think the take away from this is that campuses are so vastly different that the definition of a cute prank vs obnoxious vandalism or nice versus creepy or bizarre is too relative to be helpful to anyone.

If the OP and her chapter are successfully doing pranks that are winning the hearts and minds of the fraternities, then great. But before you start dredging the bottom of the barrel of creative ideas, I'd make sure the guys are appreciating these things as cute and not annoying or obnoxious. And if this is anonymous, I'd drop the whole thing before it bites you in the ass.

OK, what the fork is forking? I don't get it.

The balloons seem less like a prank than a fun girly thing, but chiseling a brick out? Hello, that can break nails.

Whatever happened to the old standbys - "borrowing" composites, tping trees etc? I'm pretty sad if they never thought of these.

The chapter I advise does a rake n run with the Delta Sig's every fall. They just knock on doors in town, or they'll rake the yards of other greek houses.

It was always a big deal for the 4 sororities at my alma mater to paint the PMD lions. They had stone lions outside of their front door, and it was always a big deal when someone was able to paint them without the brothers finding out about it until the next morning. But we also did nice things too, like make them baked goods, or invite them to the house for a meal. They did the same for us though, or would send flowers. that was for all the fraternities though, not just our "favorites."

A really HUGE deal back in the day was if a sister was able to steal a pledge pin from a new fraternity member. If the sorority was successful, for each pledge pin stolen, a keg of beer was owed. This has changed though, as the campus has gone dry and I don't think current students even know what a keg is.

Sticking hundreds of plastic forks in their lawn or yard.

Oh, OK. That sounds amusing.

As far as doing anyone else's yard work - we didn't even do our own. That's what the landlords were for. I don't think we even had a rake or mower in the house. Not only that, most of the groups didn't have very large yards to begin with.

I can't believe adults would do this.

Yep.

1. It's past the point of cute and silly.

2. Who has time to stick hundreds of forks in a lawn?

We invited a fraternity to a poolparty by putting hundreds of plastic cups of water in their hallways (as in door-to-door) while they were sleeping.

It'll only take 2-3 minutes if you have 8-10 people doing it.

Ehh...

Different strokes, I guess.

Exactly. Not only do the councils operate differently, but the greek systems on each campus do as well. I think as fellow greeks we need to respect that. I doubt you or DrPhil would appreciate a non member walking up to you and telling you that your traditions are stupid. The fraternity or sorority "prank" is something that may sound dumb to a non NIC/NPC member, but for some of us it is still a campus tradition. The fact that my chapter serenades all of the sororities every semester probably seems dumb as hell to a lot of people, but it's something we've always done and it's part of our culture.

Uhhh...miss us with this. Before knight_shadow and I entered the thread, the OP was being told that her prank idea was stupid.

Moreover, this isn't just about different conferences and councils. It is also about different campuses. And I frankly don't care what outsiders have to say about our traditions.

What is the point of a discussion board if it's not discussing things?

Y'all know I'm always trying to learn about different councils (and have through GC and outside sources). Serenading makes sense. Bid day/pledge presents/etc makes sense. Those sound like legitimate traditions. Putting forks in a lawn seems like a waste of time. And although the post has since been deleted, the idea of "forking" was foreign to someone else here.

If our words sway (general) you from practicing your traditions, they weren't that deep/serious to begin with.