At Texas A&M we start by beating loudly on the doors and then start singing and chants while the PNMs are walking in and then same thing at the end of the events.

I guess what we do could be called door songs, only we call it "sing and sway." Since we don't have houses, we're in lines shouting ("singing") and swaying in rhythm. As the PNM's come down through the door, the girl at the head of the line closest to the door steps up to meet her, and so forth.

At UT, at least in my sorority (not sure about others as I did not go through formal rush), we bang on the walls and the door and scream first. Then we stack the door and sing and "mush" the girls in. That's not for every round though.

I'm glad I didn't go through formal rush. I think I would have been terrified. :eek: :)

Just had to post, because the chat about door songs brought back great memories! Looks like the ADPi song at Bama has changed since I was there (eons ago!). We used to sing:

Hello Rushee, Come on in!
ADPi's where the fun begins!
We meet you.
We greet you.
With our hearts full of cheer.
We meet you.
We greet you.
And you'll have a good time here (I think that was the line)
Hello Rushee, Come on in!
ADPis where the fun begins.
We meet you, we gree-eet you
With our hearts full of cheer!
A-L-P-H-A D-E-L-T-A P-I, PI OH MY, ALPHA DELTA PI, HI!
COME ON IN!

I think that's how it went. It's been a while since I graduated (17 years!), but I do remember practicing the door song for HOURS!

UCF is big on door songs. In fact, the PNMs learn a song for each sorority and sing it before going into each house (except for prefs), and the sorority has a different door song for each day.

At ADPi-- (back in my day in the late 90s)
Day 1: "In the Jungle, the mighty jungle, the lion sleeps tonight"
Day 2: "Our House/In The Middle of the Street/ADPi/Is the place you wanna be"
Day 3: (Changed the words to the baseball song from A League of their Own) "We are the members of/Alpha Delta Pi..."
Prefs: Little ADPi

And of course, those were just the entrance songs. We had a ton of exit songs!

Door Songs
 

I just had to reply to this thread. Door songs were so much fun! Unless you were 5' tall (like me) and got stuck in the very front row all the way at the bottom. Sliding down on your knees (I should say slamming down because it all happened so fast) 15 times a day was painful! (not too mention 10 times the next day, and six times the day after that! My knees were black and blue).

And while I'm doing this (being very careful not to go flying out the door - I didn't want to be the one to get fined!) we sang:

To the tune of Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious:

Oh! Zeta Z-E-T-A-T-A-U-A-L-P-H-A
Happiness is sisterhood each and every day
When you are a part of this you're always glad to say
Zeta Z-E-T-A-T-A-U-A-L-P-H-A

Talk about tongue-twister!



ROLL TIDE!

we don't have "entrance songs", a few of the sororities do, but we have one for when the girls leave. Girls are invited in by PX's knocking on the door, and usually the president opens the door, invites the girls in, and welcomes them from the staircase/distributes nametags. We sing them out the door, and the next house they go to, TEM (lives 2 doors down) always lines their girls up on the sidewalk/up to the front door and welcomes them with a song.

I remember when I first rushed at U of O (there were a few more names on the list then than now it seems), the first door stack I saw scared the hell out of me. The girls all looked manic.

Of course we do! Here in Ohio pledges serenade right before initiation. As actives we go around and listen to the pledges serenade to the frats. Pledges sing songs that our made up that pertain to our sorority. Sometime when we knock on the frat doors and they come to listen, they will sing back. It get's really funny!

~*~Dzturle06~*~

hey
 

we have door songs at the university of memphis!!!

With an A, With an A, With an A-L-P
With a P, With a P, With a P-H-A
With an A-L-P, and an P-H-A
ALPHA DELTA PI!!!!

Alpha Alpha Alpha
Delta Delta Pi
Were the best
Of all the rest
Were sisters til we die
Were the first and finest
The best their will ever be
And that is why we are known as
The best sorority!
HEH!!!

good luck!

Well yes, U of O is losing sorority chapters at a pretty steady pace. When I went through, Tri-Delta was still there. And Kappa Alpha Theta closed the year before my freshman year, I think. My chapter closed in 2004, so the general question now is just "who's next" because based on the pattern? They have about two years left.

Well, they got rid of Shelley Sutherland it seems, and that might be helpful. She was more concerned about collecting awards at MGCA than keeping her chapters open.

Yeah, I'd heard that she had left. I think she's at WRGCA now, which is probably a better place for her. I don't know anyone at UO that was particularly pleased with the way she ran things.

i'm really glad i read this. if i hadn't seen the picture, i think i'd be scared out of my mind!

At the University of Georgia, we sing songs in the foyer of the house. Different houses do it differently... some houses start singing as soon as the PNMs start walking in, some wait to come into the foyer and start singing until the PNMs are inside... and I know of at least one where the sisters start chanting the name of the sorority from the inside before the Rho Chis open the door!

I can't imagine having to squeeze every chapter member into a door frame!