no, i think she had an office job. and target colors are red shirt and tan pants, and she wore red pants and a white shirt...

i mean she could have very well had not known better... but i put my money on her "trying to make a good impression with the deltas by wearing their colors..."

LMAO...jump in the handbasket! :D

I understand and agree but you know sometimes all we get is that first impression. And folks were murmuring during the rush about the few pregnant women there. Mainly about their ability to sacrifice that money and time. I'm not sure if they were granted interviews or if they applied really but I'm thinking it could have been a liability for them if they had.

Our undergrad chapter had a rush not long ago. I'm sorry but I was not impressed- AT ALL. There were of course, girls in red, girls who looked like they just rolled out of bed, a girl with flip-flops on, etc. I couldn't believe it. The one that took the cake was this girl who had on a see-through shirt! Many of the older graduate sorors were there and we were just all embarassed for her. I was like "what would possess you to go there?". I really want to pull some of the ladies to the side just to "talk" to them, I just really wanted to ask them if they realized how utterly disrespectful they were being.
The dumbest question, by far, was this one:

"Um, so, like, what do y'all talk about at your chapter meetings? What do you y'all do?"

I just wanted to reschedule the rush for another day. That did it for me.

I read your post, saw that your signature says Spring 2004, and thought I was trapped in the Matrix.

Okay, you're '04 grad chapter and you and your grad chapter sorors were at an undergraduate rush.

Got it ;)

Yep, you got it. :D It was a rush for a newly chartered chapter.

I was thinking the same thing that someone posted earlier. The older sorors kept saying "It is a new breed. They just don't know. That is why they need mentors". But I was like, couldn't they have at least looked at it like a job interview? At the very least, a job interview. I thought that it was common sense to dress professionally for such an event, but I realize that common sense isn't all that common.

:o
Oh, my word. I would probably have had to leave the room.

does anyone have their own embarassing rush moments? im more interested in hearing about how u made a fool of yourselves than how "some girl" came to your chapter's rush doing, saying or wearing x, y, z.

chances are none of you ladies probably ever made these mistakes, but we are human, so spill it!

well at my rush i had just come from the dentist for a filling. instead of novacaine they gave me something more along the lines of "byaatch-feel-this-pain-acaine" and that mess had me in pain throughout the whole program that i was crying. so of course people are wondering wth my problem is and the sorors thought i was that nervous. they teased me about it later.

Re: Ok...
 

ROTFLMAO!!!!!

Maybe she thought she was at the Tri-Delta rush!

What a dummy!;)

I attend a majority school in Texas, and things are much different at our school. People show up to rush just looking any ole sort of way....

...well my defining moment at MY RUSH was when I snagged my stockings during the drive to campus, so me and 2 of my future line sisters panicked, but we just said we were going to sit in the back....low and behold, the moment we sat down, sorors were like "ya'll come up front, we want to see you all".
So there I am in the front row, with a track meet going down my leg (several runs)....so during the individual introductions, I just stood up and said, my name is so and so and I have a huge run in my stocking!:D Why did about 3 of them say "we know, we can see it from way back here!" and they started laughing!
I was so emburrusssed :(
but...it turned out OK!

:D :D

Soror, maybe I'm just too mean but in my opinion, if a woman doesn't know enough to dress professionally for Rush, perhaps she isn't ready to be a woman of Alpha Kappa Alpha. I say that these women need a little more time to come up to par on their own b/c they are clearly not ready. Maybe I need to learn to be more understanding but I say that the sorority is just not for everyone.

SC

Summer Child
 

You and I are on the same page. I kept saying the same thing. That is when the seasoned sorors were like "that is why they need mentors like you to help them." My reply was "they don't need ME, they need Jesus". I was serious, what would possess anyone to wear a see-through shirt to any professional event. This is not a night club. I really wanted to just reschedule the rush for another day, I didn't feel like any of them were ready. But, alas, I didn't have a vote. Plus, I was only about 2 weeks old myself, *shrugging shoulders* what do I know?

I am finished with you!!!:o :p :D LOL. Poor Baby.

I don't necessarily think you're mean. You make a good point.

Me too! I thought to myself, wow, that is quick turnover :)

Thanks Soror Steeltrap! :)

SC

I know folks want to join in on my DST MIP thread but to keep it Delta only, it's going to stay closed, but here is a thread where others in the NPHC can throw in their off the wall MIP questions as well as off the wall rush memories. I might split it later.

Ok, here it goes. When I was in school, we had our first informational since Spring '97 was intitiated. We weren't looking forward to bringing in any more girls (you know neos are territorial). Anyway, these girls come in and greet us by saying "Hey future Soror, when can I get my packet?"

This is one story from the many I have hidden in my "I don't want to go there today" file.

Me too! I think there should be a rule: You are not allowed to wear white stockings unless you are a baby or a nurse. ;):D

WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!

Why oh WHy did she have to preface her statement with that. She may have been fine if she left that part off. I take it she didn't make that line.

How bout my phone would not have even come it.

I agree. While I do believe that one should grow within their organization, I do not believe that a GLO should be a training ground or boot camp for the entire girl-to-woman transition. Some of these stories boil down to the lack of common sense...but like my grandmother used to say, common sense ain't common. ((sighing and shaking my head)):(

hijack

I was JUST talking about how common sense ain't common. What is wrong with young people today?

/hijack

Two words - ENTITLEMENT MENTALITY :mad::(

i think that's true. too many attend Rush thinking, "they want me" as opposed to "i hope they pick me, let me act accordingly". i know when i went to Rush, i wore black. i didn't want to be caught in the "wrong" colors. nowadays, it seems like anything goes at Rush: jeans, tees, uncombed hair, babies, you name it:mad: oh of course, topped off w/the "wrong" colors:rolleyes:
crazy, i tell ya...

At the very last minute, I was warned by someone not to even wear black, and so I was going through my closet like a mad woman --- none of my nice clothes were going to work! They were all "no-go" colors or black, and it was 11PM the night before; what on earth was I going to do?? I made a run to the Walmart, the only place open that late that sold clothes, bought the only pair of pants and shirt that looked decent, even though they really didn't QUITE fit, and wore that to RUSH. I was soooo uncomfortable in my bad-fitting clearance rack Walmart clothes (the pants totally fell apart not too long later, but THANK YOU!!! they held together for the whole event), but I guess I pulled it off. And there were plenty of interests there in black suits! :rolleyes:

Right, soror. Frankly, I think that black or any other neutral like brown, beige, or gray is perfectly acceptable.

Did she say that...
 

Ok...I need to jump in here! I can't believe half these things really happend..OH MY!

Anywho, at my rush when we had Q & A there was this girl that asked " I wrote a book and donated some of the proceeds to a needy family. Can that be considered COMMUNITY SERVICE :confused::eek:---Yall I almost FELL OUT! Needless to say she WASN'T one of my line sisters! If you could have saw the face of my now Chapter President....LORD! I wanted to get under the seat for her...LOLOL!

YEP!! You hit it right on the head. It is SICKENING!!!

Brown muscle shirt and blue jeans.

so so wrong... he could have thrown on a polo. Guys can get away with that casual wear in that setting... Lawdy be....

^^^ Yup.

Jesus be a blazer.

just don't wear all leather to the club....(channeling the song "good clothes" from Little Brother)

Hello DSTRen13 and all,

I had to smile when I read this, because I remember hearing & having similar conversations with friends preparing to go apply for different orgs. The "word on the street" amongst many hopefuls was that ALL colors were forbidden, except for brown or grey - PERIOD! (This wasn't just limited to Rush or interest meetings; a campus atmosphere could lend itself to folks walking around looking like the Murkies from Rainbow Brite.) Black seemed like a safe enough bet, but you never knew what "they" were going to wear - and sometimes the attire was all black for rmembers too!

I agree. You have to know how to wear it though. At my rush, we had someone with a beige skirt suit, but the skirt was short, and she had on dark black pantyhose.

At another rush, we had an individual show up in black slacks, a green t-shirt, and a Baby Phat coat. Said individual also started nodding off toward the end of rush and looking irritated like she was ready to leave.

Don't put the phones on Vibrate, because some phones vibe really loud. Turn it on silent, or leave it in the car. I left my phone in the car. However, someone at the Rush I attended had thier phoneon Vibrate and it rang ALL night!! It was sooo loud the ringer may as well had been on.

LOL. Colors aside, there is still such a thing as appropriateness, something which far too many people lack these days!

Yea, she was trouble beforehand. Once she came to a program with a shoebox, changed shoes, and left the box near the entrance. When the speaker asked a question about health, she decided to respond complete with a four-lettered word sprinkled in.