I'm still reeling at the line about the diffuser boosting up spiral perm post-ice packs on the eyes. Sorry, that's just bringing back too many scary memories of my roommate with her Tres Semme mousse and rolled down, oversized colored socks that went over the leggings. I'm glad Charlotte and you stayed friends!

Yup, those were the days - in one of my sophomore composite pictures my hair is SO BIG that the sides of it are cut off in the frame of the picture.

Oh, I forgot one thing that was pretty neat - my Rho Gamma ended up being a Pi Phi as well. We all thought she was either an Elmo or a Bert, and she was really, really good about not revealing a THING to me when I was having my big old pre-pref meltdown. She was great on bid day - she told me how happy she was that I was "Pi Phi or Die" and that she had a hard time not grinning when she saw that I had immediately signed the Pi Phi invitation to preference. I would have been a horrible Rho Gamma - I can't keep emotions off my face to save my life!

Just so I'm clear, where were the chapters at this point. Like I know we're in Sigma Chi's old house, and that G Phi is in Snu's and Snu is in SAE's and I think Pi Phi is in Fiji's? When did all this moving go down? And where were the other chapters?

If Fiji started it all then Pi Phi is in Sigma Nu's old house who was in it after Fiji (Pi Phi wasn't on the row when I was there - Sigma Nu lived there). So Sigma Nu has had 3 houses that I know of (ours, Pi Phi and where they are now).

Theta is in the KSig's old house.

In the early 90's only us and Alpha Phi had houses by the fraternities. Theta moved in when Kappa Sig left (mid 90's I think).

In the early 90's the fraternities were the ones they have now plus SAE and Kappa Sig. The sororities were the ones they have now plus Tri Delt and Kappa. Pi Phi, Kappa, Tri Delt and Theta shared two dorms.

Wow, so did Pi Phi move in to their current house when SAE left and Snu moved into their current (until this year) house?

Yes. My understanding is their current house sleeps fewer than their old (now Pi Phi) house.

You are right - when SAE left, Sigma Nu actually asked us to apply for their house so they could apply for SAE, which had fewer beds. After that group of Sigma Nu's had graduated the rumors were around for awhile that we had "stolen" their house - completely untrue - we really didn't care which house we got on Union Ave, as long as we got a house! Also, it would have been pretty much impossible to do that with the university's current policy about the greek houses - if you currently live in the house and you are making occupancy, you have "first dibs" on that house. It really worked out for the best for us, as I think that our current house was much easier to remodel into a home fitting for a sorority than it would have been to change the former SAE house.

When I was at UPS, Pi Phi and Kappa Kappa Gamma shared Smith Hall, and Tri-Delta and Theta shared Schiff.

I never heard that rumor....The key of course is making occupancy.....;)

I never lived in the dorms so I couldn't remember which was which.

When did A Phi and G Phi get on to Greek row?

I (naturally) loved hearing a Pi Phi story!

I started thinking Big Bird was Pi Phi when I read this:
Our chapter does this, in fact, I just picked up my pillow for my second little the other day :-)

PPL

How fun - I still have my pillow. What a great tradition! I was never crafty enough to make my own, but I'm so impressed by the women in the chapter now and these gorgeous pillows, complete with angels, arrows, letters, their little's names, that they do themselves....I'm not quite Martha Stewart enough for that!