ahhh, good for you ames! sorry i'm late with it, but you know i'm happy for you. we gotta stick together! congrats!

Congratulations Ames!!!

Congratulations to Ames and to LSU Delta Gamma!!!

DGMarie: Your post is TOO CUTE!!!!! :)

Congrats to you and your new DG sisters!

Ames, do you know about Party Pics???
Well, here ya go!

http://www.partypicsusa.com/frame.cg...%2Fproofs.html

I know you're in there SOMEWHERE!;)

JAM,

Those pics are adorable! Which one is your daughter? I think its neat how all the sororities had similiar shirts!

CONGRATULATIONS AMES!! have a great time with DG (and justamom's daughter!) - what an awesome house!!
xoxo
chantillylace

yeah! i got the email for the party pics yesterday.. they're all so cute!

AWW congrats on Delta Gamma! Im sure youre going to love it :) and the pics are too cute!

Nichole

Ames, what did your friend end up doing?

the one that said she wasn't going to pledge, and wound up pledging.. went theta.

so did another friend, even though she wanted to pledge all along.

i have 1 friend that went tridelt.

another went chi-omega.

2 went zeta.

1 went kappa.

and when i got there on bid day, turns out one of my other friends is a DG! yay!

we just had our pledge class meeting.. and i'm so pumped. its gunna be a great great year!

Virtual Hannah's for you!!!
 

http://www.raggedyann-museum.org/VALENTINE%20ANN.jpg

Glad you are having fun!!

Party Pics
 

Cute pics!!!

Did all the sororities have a pool party on Bid Day? Is that organized by CPH each year, or was this the first year for it?

I think it's cool if everyone had the same Bid Day theme....starts working on the Greek Unity.

Tell us more about it!!

I can't see the pics.. it directs me to the general Party Pics page and from there when you click on College and LSU and the sororities you end up having to put in a password :(

I am only aware of one that requests a password. Did you try ALL of them? Maybe some have requested that feature do to the fact you never really know what a picture shows till it's out there for the world to see.

i think only pi phi and phi mu requests passwords. i guessed the phi mu one, though =) speaking of friends going to other chapters, i had one friend go THETA and i think one went ZTA. panhellenic love, baby

Congratulations on pledging Dee Gee!!!!! Thanks so much for sharing your story! It was very well done.


Way late on clearing up some questions about the recruitment process. Although all members are encouraged to maximize their options, "suicide" at LSU still takes place. It is unfortunate. A few girls that did this this year had to be released from recruitment. Had they put down all houses they preffed with, they would have been placed in a chapter.

To echo what Moxie said about panhellenic love, I am so impressed with the way in which LSU is moving. It is great to see so many different sororities taking party pics together. It just goes to show you that the stereotypes aren't true and that members of every house can get along. "No matter the letter, we're all Greek together!"

I believe that mosts sororities here have pool parties. It isn't organized through LSU, it is usually at an alum or an actives house. This year was the first year that they required everyone to sleep over at the sorority house. Imagine 230 girls in one house!! Our party pics guy was loving it!

congrats!

Did Tiger Weekly have their article on recruitment results yet?

You know Moxie, IN RETROSPECT, it's pretty funny how we ALL were hanging out, watching this thread like it was going to give BIRTH!

How IS your sister??? I bet she's happy for YOU!

Yeah, 230 girls in one house was definitely a great way to jump into things. I absolutely LOVED the fact that every DG girl was willing to give up their bed for a pledge for the night.. It was so considerate of them!

Tonight was our first exchange with Acacia, it was SO much fun! Slip-n-slide in their chapter room.. :)

Yeah, Justamom!

There was an update in Tiger Weekly.. I didn't see it yet, but one of the girls told me that DG, DZ and Zeta were listed. Correct me if I'm wrong, that's just what she told me earlier tonight.

I'm going crazy between Y'alls threads!!! This old hag can't keep nuttin straight!

Ames-I called my daughter last night and she was getting ready for the exchange as well. She LOVES this party, so much fun.

This is just too cool!:cool:

my sister is good! i think now she maybe wishes they had gone ahead with the C-section, but since her placenta moved into place or whatnot they are waiting for natural labor. she thinks baby Grant will be in there forever and just assumes the doctors will have to induce labor! she is melodramatic and just ready for her baby boy =)

I think we need a NEW THREAD for ALL the LSU GCers (and Mom/s):D
There are at least 8 of us who post and heaven only knows who's out there lurking!;)

edited-I AM SO TICKED OFF AT PARTY PICS! Now, instead of just being able to click and view, if I want to see ANY photos of my son I'll have to ask him for the code. Knowing him...he'll just forget and I won't be able to buy any of the pics for him. :(

PS-I know it had to come to this-it's just too darn bad.

me too! i usually like to look at other pictures to look for my friends, and i guess i still can but now there's an extra step involved. grrr for extra steps.

JUSTAMOM--

I saw that the Party Pics were posted for the exchange last night, but they're making me put in a password! I'm just dying to see them, I know there's going to be some hillarious ones in there.. Do you know the password? I put "Acacia" in and it gave me Acacia's formal.. not what I wanted. PM me if you know the password.. If not, I'll call around and see if any of the girls know.

-AMES

I talked to my daughter last night. She thought they weren't going to require one! So much for insider info!

I'll try a few places and see if anything works!

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
LATER
I sent Party Pics a letter about the LX exchange yesterday. I was going to try some codes, but it opened right up for me. HOWEVER, could NOT get into the DG photos. I tried several things...:(

THIS IS NO FUN!

Just thought of something- The site said they give the event code out at the party....hmmmm. You could try your Social chair OR, Maybe Moxie could ask her BF if he heard the code. Unless daughter paid attention, she may not know either!

DID YOU FIND ANYTHING OUT???
 

Daughter just popping in tomorrow. She said to go to Party Pics USA. I did, and NOTHING!!! She did have a bunch of tid- bits.

We did not fare too well this year.:( USUALLY, we have more girls get pledged, but as it is now,
dg-1
kkg-1
kd-2
xo-1.

That's IT! I am so sad, from the current info, they were cut pretty hard. I am at a loss because of the number of legacies...OH MY GOSH, I just realized one of our legacies was cut! Her mother was the PRES of our Pan Hell for a few years!!! Maybe it's due to the higher SAT requirements. I JUST DON'T KNOW!!! Ames, Moxie,were the cuts that bad this year? What in the heck happened. We USUALLY have a MUCH better showing than this. Retention hasn't been all that great from our area, but we ALWAYS had mpre pledges!!!

JAM THANK YOU!

I think I'm as obsessed with pictures as I am with rush threads!

It is sooo fun to see the gals!

I'm passing this link as well as the one for FLA schools to my sister in HS...hint much??:D

Justamom..

I know of about 10 girls entire situations.. meaning what their resumes looked like, how many recs they got, personalities, and how conversations went during rounds. Some got a fair amount of invites back throughout, but others weren't so fortunate. And to say that it was a reflection of their "situation".. I couldn't really tell you! It was confusing to me..I'm sure I'll understand more about it next year.

How many girls usually pledge from your area?

I'd like to say that cuts were harsh this year, but I don't know anything about previous years to compare it to.

party pics update..

They managed to send me a bill for bid day pics, but still have yet to answer my question about the password situation. ugh..

-ames

Re: DID YOU FIND ANYTHING OUT???
 

Okay, I'm confused!!! What school had only 5 girls pledging?!? Please tell me that I'm reading this wrong!!!

honeychile, I think she meant girls from her hometown.

Thank you! I'll be able to sleep now...

honeychile , I am SO sorry I wasn't clear...that WOULD be a heart stopper wouldn't it!!!

Kind of funny though!

I guess the rush infractions were really flying this year...all the way from doors opened a few seconds too long, trinkets escaping the houses, to some rather major ones.

My daughter said this is Panhellenic's major fundraiser for the year! :D ...lol

My first reaction was, oh, 100, 200, 500... then I realized that couldn't be right either!

Quote:

I guess the rush infractions were really flying this year...all the way from doors opened a few seconds too long, trinkets escaping the houses, to some rather major ones. My daughter said this is Panhellenic's major fundraiser for the year! :D ...lol

As much as I really, really hate rush infractions, the concept of them being a fundraiser is hilarious! :D

JAM, of course don't identify the houses, but what kind of rush infractions are you talking about? Bid promising? Trash-talking other houses? Why would rush infractions like that make the cuts harsher?

-- Ivy the ignorant Northerner

I think almost every house has promised bids during pref night this year.. everyone was talking about it and 2/3 houses I preffed with promised me a bid. I just didn't care to report them and make an issue of it.. did any say anything about it?

I know some parties were slightly off schedule.. but that's the max that I heard of.

Just to let everyone know!

And JUSTAMOM!

The party pics from our exchange on Thursday are now up.. The famous "Wet-N-Wild" party with Acacia.. It was a blast!!!

http://qp3.partypics.com/jsp/events/images.jsp

It says the session is expired...can you PM me the password if you don't want to post it?