Funniest/Strangest Rumor about your Chapter
 

I thought this would be a fun tongue-in-cheek thread! What is the funniest or most out there rumor about your chapter you have overheard? I feel like before JuicyCampus the rumors were so much more interesting and creative.

My personal favorite was when one girl on campus started saying we had top secret recruitment parties and were underground pledging a second full pledge class even though we were well over total and had gotten quota at my campus for as long as I can remember. She was even naming girls from our last initiated pledge class and saying they were some of the new secret "pledges"! We were supposedly trying to become super big without people noticing? Anyways, apparently she "heard this" from two Alpha Phis who were her "close friends". She was so adamant about it and would tell anybody who would listen but I don't think anybody believed her.

One guy came up to my friends and I at a party and declared he had figured out what Alpha Phi meant. We kind of gave him a weird look and without pause he said, in all seriousness, "Aristotle and Plato". I haven't laughed that hard in a long time and told him that would be "Alpha Pi".

Some rumors...

Each pledge class that gets initiated, one member have some "one on one time" with a goat. lol

And of course Pike does the elephant walk.

Fiji makes their pledges study for hours on end and then has a World of Warcraft tournament (oh wait.. nvm.. that's not a rumor :P)

^^ Ok, what's up with the goat thing?? I've heard a ridiculous number of people spread rumors that an organization does something with a goat at initiation. What exactly are these new members supposedly doing with said goat?

right before I was initiated they were saying things about a goat lol. I think it's name was Bob. We all knew they were joking and it was really funny. Didn't know so many other chapters used a goat too lol.

There was a chapter on my campus that had a song about a goat. I wish I could remember it!

You don't wanna be first and you don't wanna be last.

I dunno, it's a funny thing to joke with pledges about.

I love yelling "Bring out the goat!" when they're all lined up.

eta: do you really not know what the goats about?

I know what the goat's about

I know what it's about, I find it hard to believe people can't figure it out. When they're lined up someone off in dark going "Mahaahh!" while everyone else yells "The goat's here!" is amazing.

"Riding the goat" as an aspect of initiation into secret societies, and as a general euphemism for initiation itself, goes way back, originally being applied to Odd Fellows and Freemasons. A pretty good history of it can be found here.

From "riding the goat," it wasn't a long trip to goats have all kinds of parts to play in initiations. ;)

ETA:

"Riding the Goat" by Cassius Coolidge (of "Dogs Playing Poker" fame):

http://www.dogsplayingpoker.org/gall...g_the_goat.jpg

"Riding the goat". So that is what the kids are calling *it* these days. ;)

And great picture!

On my own, using my imagination, I had come to two different conclusions.. For one, you’re facing the front of the goat, the other, you’re facing the back. I had never heard what exactly the whole story was though.

Either way, it didn't sound fun. haha

A certain fraternity on campus had their pledges keep care of a goat for a year.

This isn't really a rumor; just a rushee's ignorance. She said, "Alpha Gamma Delta's colors are purple and canvas!"

Our Pi Chi's had canvas bags with purple stitching, and apparently she thought they were all Alpha Gam :confused:

What color is canvas?;)

I've heard a few rumors around my campus about certain houses...

One of my guy friends said he heard some people talking about my chapter had super hot and cool girls come and do recruitment for us this year so we could have a hot new member class. Haha, we had our own super hot and cool girls do recruitment :p

I heard one of the fraternity pledge classes have to raise a couple of dogs and then have them fight before they get initiated and whichever one lives is their pledge class dog.

I also heard another one where the pledge class raises one dog and then at the end of their pledgeship they have to kill it. (Those are horrible)

At my school, supposedly the Fijis and Phi Kappa Psi's do the elephant walk.

There's also another rumor where a certain sorority and certain fraternity new member classes all have to hook up with each other and then after they all hookup, then they can get initiated.

When my local sorority became part of AEPhi, AEPi had been on campus for nearly 50 years. A rumor started going around that the local chapter of AEPi had gone coed, or that we were some sort of AEPi little sister org.

To be fair, the members of the local chapter of AEPi were very supportive of us as we got started as a local.

But, um, yeah... On the national level, AEPhi was founded before AEPi. Also, phi and pi are not the same letter. You'd think that at an engineering school, people would know the difference. :rolleyes:

Like a mixer?

I must give credit where it is due - that is hilarious, EW.

This is a rumor at my school as well. It is said that in order to be initiated, the NMs of a certain sorority have to have sex w/ members of whatever fraternity the sorority chooses that year. Plus they have to have an active sister in the room to watch & make sure the NM actually does it.

I don't know if it is a popular rumor, but I did hear about it because an ex-member of this sorority told one of my good friends it was the reason she dropped the sorority.

Funniest Things I Have Heard
 

During rush last semester a potential new member came up to me and says "So... Is it true??" I was like umm I am not quite sure what you are talking about... She responds with "I heard you girls make your pledges put their heads in an oven for 10 seconds" It took everything in me not to bust out laughing in her face but instead I responded with... "Oh no, that's not true... It's acutally 15 seconds...." Just to see her reaction, because clearly anyone who believes something so crazy deserves to be messed with lol... Needless to say we did not extend a bid to her lol

You should have sent her a turkey baster. :p

Sylvia Plath hazing?

I thought maybe too much The Virgin Suicides.

the funniest and worst rumor about my chapter is..........."you have to sit on a cone", "and we drive our new mem to vermont leave them and make them get their own way back" lmao who thought of these because there not true, i think the funniest is the vermont bcuz y would we waste our gas driving ALL the way up there and then back to MD.

We used to have this huge fountain in the middle of our courtyard, but it broke one year and it eventually got torn down. Now there is a hugering of bricks, with a circle of concrete in the middle.

I've been asked if that is really an entrance to an underground dungeon in which we haze the pledges.

I would say the craziest rumor I heard was that one of my linesisters broke an IG's ankle because the IG couldn't name everyone from our line in order. I never understood how that one got started.

Just heard this one last night. Some guy said that when his uncle pledged to the fraternity, he had to swallow 25 goldfish and that he could feel them swimming around for about a month.

Don't know why he actually beleives this, We only make them swallow 5.

Weirdest one I hear about us is that we have a secret tunnel to burger king. Our house is the newest on campus and is at the end of Greek row, placing it closest to burger king so apparently we have a tunnel now.

I was at a high school soccer game with a guy I was dating at the time so I wasn't particularly connected to either team and have no insight into school culture. This one group of fans were swallowing goldfish whenever their team scored. It was one of the weirdest things I've ever seen. They were doing it apparently voluntarily.

That we lied about where our semi-formal was and photoshopped the pictures on facebook (yeah, all 2000 something of them, by guys and girls). Go figure.

There are a bunch about different sororities on our campus. During recruitment, we had to write down all the rumors we heard about the different sororities (some are funny, some are kinda mean).

One girl thought there was a sorority that made their girls sleep in a coffin and drink animal blood before they could be initiated.

There was the one where a certain sorority made their girls get naked, sit on paper towels and watch porn and the first one to 'wet' the paper towel was dropped.

One was that the NMs of a sorority got saran-wrapped and had all their 'fat' circled.

And the ever-popular "those girls sleep with everyone".

And the other was that one sorority was the 'reject' sorority that bid on all the girls who didn't get bids from anyone else.

Of course, they're all false. Our campus gets on our asses about hazing like nobody's business.

During recruitment, one of our members told a PNM that KKG stood for "Key to the Kingdom of God." LOL. Not sure if she just wanted to mess with the PNM or the chapter, though.

You are trash for merely posting that.

you are new and should shut your mouth.

Ha! One of my bf's friends (who is always a jerk) said he'd tell me Sigma Pi secrets if I told him Kappa secrets. So I said, "KKG is Key to the Kingdom of God" and he goes "Wait, really?" Lol PSYCHE! He was just joking, but it was funny.

:eek:

Oh. My. GreekChat is probably not going to be for you. Is there a Greek Chat Junior Weenie? Whatever you do, DON'T go to Dating and Relationships . . .

The only rumor I remember about my chapter was that it involved my Big Brother. The rumor first started that he had slept with every girl in 2 of the prominent houses on campus. Then it grew to the point that a girl couldn't be initiated into either house without sleeping with him first. He was a God among men ;)

As far as the rumors surrounding the Sinfonian Serenade are concerned. They're not rumors, they're all facts. but don't quote me on that ;)