This story offended some people, so I'm deleting it. I apologize if any found my story about the activities of the rho chi's at my school offensive! It was retold only in the spirit of the light-hearted topic, but again, I apologize.

We had a Pref party where we were serving Ginger Ale in champagne glasses. Someone from Panhell came by during our second party because a Rushee said that she had champagne at our house. There was talk about rush violations until one of our Alumnae members who was working the kitchen offered the person a drink and PROVED it was really ginger ale! Later found out that the rushee had never had ginger ale in her life and had no idea what she was really drinking. We sat and laughed about it for several years whenever we had ginger ale in the house.

DaffyKD

Re: Rusher Faux Paus
 

Whoops! But at least it sounds like you made a good recovery! :)


.....Kelly :)

Honestly, I think this is awful.

I was in FFA. It's a GREAT organization. Do not make fun of that which you don't know. I also went to a HUGE party school and joined a GLO. .Secondly-reading their books...not very nice.


edited because 1) I type badly 2) I should practice what I preach.

Blue Violet, I worked with several FFA chapters and I assure you that the Future Farmers of America are not Greeks.

hey carnation
 

I meant to say it was a GREAT organization. Sorry-My mind types faster than my fingers.I KNOW they aren't greek.

Keep in mind that the only reason I went through rush was that one of my friends wanted to rush, but she didn't want to go through alone. So, I signed up with her.

We had four sororities on campus, and she and I somehow got grouped together. Anyway... she had her heart set on one. We were at one of the parties -- I forget which -- for this particular group. They happened to have a set of twins who were active. I didn't know them well enough to tell them apart. (can you tell where this is going?) At some point during this party, I referred to the active as {insert her twin's name).

I wasn't invited back. Oh, well. LOL

If that's why you weren't invited back, I don't think they seem like a group you'd want to be a part of, anyway. Sounds like they had a big ole' stick up their collective you-know-whats.

I am a total spaz
 

I asked why they had so many turtles...She looked at me like I was stupid. Meh well...It happens.

Allergies
 

I wasn't cut form this sorority, but while I was in their first round party, I had an allergic reaction. It turns out that the sister that had brought most of the displays had a lot of cats. Everything in the room smelled like cats and there were cat hairs everywhere. When I entered the room, I started sneezing uncontrollably and coughing and had to leave the party.
At another party that night I knew I had no interest at all and so when I was introducing myself, I listed my hobbies as collecting dryer lint and Corey Haim movies. :)

This didn't cause me to get cut from any sororities (at least I hope it wasnt the reason I got cut), but it is an embarassing rush story. I got a concussion the weekend before rush, and the medicine that they gave me in the ER knocked me on my butt for a few days. Anyway, the first time I had gotten up in like 3 days was to go to the first night of rush. Bad idea. THe medicine plus overexertion from standing up so long made me sick. After visiting all the houses, my recruitment group was sitting outside in the middle of the greek village and talking about the night. To make a long story short, I started to hyperventilate and I passed out in the middle of the Greek Village! Every Greek came out of their house and saw me! 2 fire trucks, an ambulance, and a few police cars later, I was rolled out of the village on a stretcher and on my way to the ER for the second time that week. And I definitely go to a small school, so I kept on hearing "did you hear about the girl who passed out?" And then when people saw my bruise from the IV they were like "Oh my gosh, you are the concussion girl!" But I continued through rush and I am sure glad I did because I love Chi Omega!!!! Just thought I would share my completely embarassing rush story! It made for good conversation throughout the rest of rush!

You are exactly right. I knew where I was going long before this party, and I wasn't disappointed to learn of the cut. I have friends who pledged that group, and I am still wondering how some of them ended up there. But, I am happy with my choice, and I hope those friends found the same bond I did.

I did not get cut BUT....
 

I think it was because people felt sorry for me!

1) tripped and fell UP the stairs.
2) my skirt flew over my head (OK slight exaggeration-but it might as well have!) :eek:

3) I discovered MUCH LATER when I got home that a little green thing was in my front teeth all day from the food at the FIRST party.
:rolleyes:

4)while talking to a girl at one of the "popular" houses, for no real reason what so ever except that I am a nerd, I choked on my own spit.You know that really hard choking that makes a lot of noise and you almost gag and can't catch your breath and your eyes water-yeah that kind of choking. People were wanting to give me the heimlich.I wanted to DIE!!!

5)wore these cute-but cheap-sandles the next day. Well, the strap broke. So now I have like one shoe-because it won't stay on with out the little strap.So now I have "grocery store feet" at each house. All I could think of was that Jimmy Buffet song "Blew out my flip flop..."

But my Rho Chi made me feel better. She told me that I could be assured that whatever house I chose-I'd know they really loved me!

The third day and pref were really good and nothing bad happened. But damn....

Well, I bet the reason I was cut from one house the first day was that I didn't gush or kiss their butts like a lot of the other girls did. A LOT of girls wanted to be there, so they sucked up and talked about how wonderful the sorority is. It was our next to last house of the day, and nothing was wonderful to me by that point. ;)

And I know why I got cut from one. On the second of the third day of rush, one of the sisters asked me what I thought of their parties. They had done things kind of backwards from our other sororities. Instead of talking to a whole bunch of people the first day, they paired us up with one, and we talked to no one else. It was kind of like pref, but the first day. And I was BORED.

I responded with, "Well, I wish I would have gotten to meet more sisters the first day, instead of just having one to talk to." (No offense to any of you out there in sororities that do that, I had just gotten used to it the other way.)

I figured that would get me cut when I said it, but hey, I wasn't going to lie. I knew where I wanted to go anyway. :)

Not funny, just stupid
 

One of the big things about our sorority is inclusiveness...we were founded when all of our founders could not join the same sorority because they had different religions. It's really stressed as a core ideal. Well, apparently one girl did not pick up on this. At a party at one of the fraternity houses, she made a racist comment. One of our sisters overheard it, and was upset, and asked her as calmly as she could about it in case she had interpreted wrong. She ended up arguing with her about it for about a half hour before giving up. This was not just a misunderstanding, the girl actually felt this way.....
I'm glad she said it then so we found out early...not the type of person we want in our org.

Re: one house..
 

Yeah, I think that I got cut from a house for the same thing, but cmon! After going to 4 houses and smilling and acting polite, your face gets sore. That's okay. I always knew I wanted AOII!

I was the exact same way and like QT Pie it all turned out well in the end. I can't imagine having gone anywhere else......

About tricky money questions...

When one of my sisters was going thru Rush, a particular house asked her a couple questions like that... She got fed up with it, so they finally came out and asked "What kind of car do you drive?" she said "A '71 Pinto"... and then someone asked her what her dad did for a living and she said he was a garbage man. :) She was cut that night.

And one of the girls I was rushing this year asked me what kind of car I drove. I proceeded to tell her all about my baby - my 1989 Volvo 240 station wagon. Why would I lie? - I love my car! Never saw her again...

Oh wow -- be glad you're not a guy or I'd ask you to marry me on the spot! My baby is a 1993 Volvo 240 sedan. Deep navy blue, the color of love. Or at least I should say "was," since my sweet little car gave her life for me in March. (Truly the way I feel about it -- the car was totalled; I had to be cut out, had some head and shoulder injuries but otherwise survived a wreck I shouldn't have.) I still have my license plate up on the wall, dents and bends and all. It reads "VLVO PWR."

it was the first day of rush and i was in the room with the VERY christian sorority. but since i was clueless about sororities then, i didnt realize this. anyways, i am very openminded and wanted a group of girls like myself. so when we were asking questions i asked if the girls were "diverse" and the girl looked at me and was like, "WELL, we all have VERY STRONG BELIEFS, if thats what your asking." i didnt mean to offend her... it was just a question! but then when i went to the AOII's and i asked, they said diversity in every way, shape and form was one of the strongest assets of their sorority... and they were right!

Yay for Volvos! I get teased a lot about my car (it's affectionately called the swedish meatball) but I love my baby... It's super safe AND it fits all my crap for the long drive to and from school!

I'm the envy of soccer moms everywhere...

Hahaha, everyone called mine The Brick. Volvos (old ones, anyway) are not known for their aerodynamics.

Re: I did not get cut BUT....
 

Thats funny! I am sure you are adorable, but in my mind's eye I can see the group discussing you at Chapter and someone brining up the story:

"Entertaining Angels Unaware . . . " LOL

Yeah this thread has really taken off. Soon we will have more stories from Winter rush!!!

well when I rushed this past fall, I was in the XYZ suite sitting down and having a nice conversation with a sister with my purse in my lap. They told us to turn our cell phones off but I just figured i'd put mine on vibrate and keep it in my purse. in the middle of our conversation I felt the phone vibrate and I sort of jumped a little bit and the girl just looked at me kind of funny thinking I had just passed gas! I couldn't explain what happened since my cell phone wasn't even supposed to be on so I just had to sit there letting this girl think I was really rude! Yup...I got cut.

I hope not from me! It's my first time on the other side and a LOT of girls I know are rushing us and and I am totally worried I am going to screw up!

Why we think we got cut, huh? Interesting what everyone so far has thought about that subject.
Here's my input:

I went through formal rush so I went to all the houses on my campus. At the ZTA house, they were talking about their philanthropy, which put plainly is Breast Cancer Foundation...I started bawling my eyes out b/c I have a great-aunt who is sorta dying of cancer that started in the breast and has spread rapidly and I have a few breast cancer survivors in my family as well as quite a few relatives dead because of various cancers. I think by crying, I was cut. (Don't get me wrong, the Zetas on my campus are nice gals...but you just don't cry during Rush).

I think for a few of our sororities who are a bit older both nationally and on my campus, I think I was too spontaneous and spirited for them...I'm wild and crazy at times and even my sisters think I'm a bit much! :) On bid day, the rushees jumped off a low stage after announcing who they got their bid from...I screamed "Make some noise Alpha Gamma Delta, I'm yours!"

But the funny thing is, where I thought I "messed up" was in fact at the sorority I am a part of. The first day of Rush I tripped over an active's legs passing by on my way into a room. I joked that "boy that'll make you guys cut me" and we all laughed and the girl (now my sister) was like, "don't worry, we're all klutzy here."

hmmmm
 

Well, I'm on a small commuter campus and we only have to NPC sororities and no locals so rush week really wasn't all that stressful for me. We all made it through all the parties and were all invited back to both pref nights. Both groups of girls are really awesome and it was a hard choice between the two and i switched mentally between the two all week. One day i was deadset the one and then the next, the other. It got to pref night and both ceremonies were great, but at the one, i just seemed to be there. I wasn't feeling it, ya know? I just went through the motions and when i went through the DG one, i looked around and knew i was home. I got my bid card, closed my eyes and saw the anchor. i haven't looked back since!
-Mandie

I have a couple stories:

My fresh year I tried informal....and I mean I TRIED... I went to about 4 of ABC's interest parties because I thought I loved some of the girls there....well I never got a bid...but the last party I went to my friend Michelle went with...only she had to come late, and when she did show up she didn't say much....but she is tall, blonde and has gorgeuos blue eyes...and she also got their bid that smae night (but refused b/c she thought it was stupid that she got a bid for being a barbie doll)....when I went though formal....all the girls I had liked in that house had grad. or deactivated anyway....


During formal (soph year), at the XYZ house I knew I didn't want I told the girl how horrible rush was because I couldn't see people's true personality...obviously people aren't going to act like themselves...WOW did she show me her true self....hmmm

Also I got invited back to Tri-Sigma (don't mind saying the name b/c this isn't a bad story)...and I was exstatic b/c I got paired with the same girl who rushed me first round...and she hadn't cut me first round so I thought i was good...well I made the mistake of gushing on about how I loves this soroity and how pretty the girl was who rushed me...I'm not sure if it was that or just that they had to cut half of the girls for pref

But I wouldn't trade my ASA's for anything in the world!!!

Ok I loooove this thread so I'm bringing it back:

From my rush on the other side thread:

We were making little stuffed angels on philanthropy night and using this high powered fabric glue. Well, one of the PNMs made a comment about how good the glue smelled. I was like "hmmm" but I knew her from class so I racked it up to nervousness. She wasn't really talking well, she was nervous, so we checked out our lattices w/ photos of our philanthropy events and such. When we got back to our table she was like "I just love the smell of this glue". I was beginning to get a little weirded out. But then a few minutes later she picks up her angel and takes a HUGE WHIFF and is like "I LOVE this glue" and I got pretty freaked out. Luckily I started telling some story about paint pens, but it was so bizarre. hehe. She did pledge another group, but now I think she's transferring. She's a strange ranger.

A new one:

There was this freshman woman on my campus this year. She was very attractive, very athletic, and very friendly. Unfortunately, she didn't let herself be known for that. She had a website called "Jane Doe's Little Hole on the Web" which featured revealing bikini pictures of herself with suggestive captions. Then, she gave the site to some of her freshmen guy friends. Needless to say, on our 1700 person campus, the pictures were soon posted on guy's doors, computers, and being passed around through emails and IMs. She had articles written about her in the paper, as well as sorority members come up to her to tell her that she was balled from their house.:rolleyes: Actually, I really liked the girl, aside from her completely poor judgement, which seemed pretty out of character for her. She's on hall with my little sister and they're good friends. She didn't even go through formal rush, but basically all fall term here is like rush... I think she's transferring to a big state school next year. I imagine she'll rush there.

Oh, and just to beat up myself, a little bit, too:

I think I was cut from one house on Pref Night because of the toolish sweater I worse the day before. Sort of a purple wool cardigan that you can imagine your mom wearing! Our third round, Sisterhood Night, is definately awkward overall... Oh well!

I don't have a story on why I was cut, but I do have one on why we cut one girl out of rush.

I met this girl the first day of Informal rush and she was hanging all over every sister. At first I thought she was such an awesome rushee and really interested in getting to know everyone. She had overheard some sisters talking about where we were going out that night and showed up by herself to hang out with us. While it may seem like a nice gesture ( and there are no rules about hanging out with rushees during informal) it was a little strange. We really didn't want any other rushee to see her with us and think that we were giving her any kind of special treatment. Then after day 2, we were at a neighboring fraternity house where she had just left from and the guys were telling us how she told them that she was promised a bid and all this stuff ( which she was not)! That pissed me off a little b/c it was so presumptuous (sp?). The next day she showed up unanounced at our house and said she just wanted to say hi. She just seemed to wierd, and kinda pushy for us, so we cut her. After rush was over the guys in the fraternity told us they were so glad that we had cut her b/c apparently she was really heavy into a lot of drugs. They said they didn't want to tell us before b/c they would have felt bad.

ok i don't kow if i've posted this already. i don't know if we cut this girl or not but one of my sisters likes to ask off-the-wall questions to see what the PNMs will say. one questions she asked was "if you could buy any country in the world, which one would you buy?" the PNM said "ummm, i don't know....Hawaii?" When we had about that after the party we almost died laughing.

Obviously a geography major? :rolleyes:

honeychile

Uhmm ... our symbol isnt a snake ... just a dove or heart ... :shrugs: maybe its a chapter thing. Oh well! At lest youre happy! :D

snakes scare the daylights out of me too...i doubt i could have handled going through their house...most girls hate snakes too so its weird that they'd have that for their symbol...i dunno...maybe its just me...have a great day....:)

Recruitment began the 2nd weekend of school & I had just had a mole removed on my chest & there were stiches there. I used a band-aid to cover it up most of the time I believe, but either way it was visible I had a band-aid there....maybe I was cut b/c of that?!...lol


***note I've been on this board before...and for some reason I can log on my old username but I can not post...I've e-mailed but received to reply to this, so I created a new name...if I should not be posting this here let me know, thanks

I may be mistaken, but doesn't the snake figure prominently on the SK pledge pin? (I could be wrong, but I don't feel like checking the pledge pin thread!) If this is the case, the snake may not be a symbol , per se, but it must have some sort of meaning. Or maybe not, lol

The wierdest getting cut story
 

I think I got cut from a certain sorority b/c I told them that one of their members no longer had cancer and that she had gone into remission. The certain sister (at my school) was in chemotherapy with my mom (in the same city as the school) and she was so upset when she learned I wasn't invited back to pref. I am glad now though!

Yeah the snake is the "sigma" on our pledge pin, but it's definitely not a symbol! I know at my chapter...we don't have any pictures of snakes up, just hearts and doves everywhere, does anyone remember what chapter the girl went where Sigma Kappa had snakes everywhere?! (it's just a little strange to me):confused: