Party with no girls
 

We are looking to have a party during girls rush, so there will be no/not many girls at the party. Does anyone have any ideas that would be good for a theme of that kind of party?

The best one i have heard is an AA party where everyone wears, Hello my name is.. name tags.

Poker Night/ Vegas Night- poker tables and cigars
ESPN - wear a jersey, you can also cook out tailgate type food
Around the world- offer different types of beverages from different places. Bonus if someone can get through all of them without getting sick.

1.) The word is WEAR not WHERE.
2.) Do a search. There are probably about 6000 threads about rush parties.

An "AA" party? Someone might find that offensive. I get it, but others might not.

You could have the theme be "Registered Sex Offenders and Children."

That way, on the off chance a girl ever showed up, she'd pull a U-turn at the door.

I also searched and didn't really find anything either :confused:. It really suprised me as I'm sure this must have been covered somewhere on here... hopefully you can find the thread you're looking for!

Dumb question, but is this party going to get guys who are potentially rushing your fraternity? Are you looking at it sort of as a way to recruit guys?

http://www.greekchat.com/gcforums/se...archid=4803354

14 threads of party themes. Just take the girl factor out of them. The one in the LXA forum would probably be useful.

And I laughed incredibly hard when I saw the picture 33girl :P

oh it's NJIT! I do find it wierd that the only people at parties are greeks. From what I've seen it has always been the non-Greeks who party the most. And I'm also lost on the concept of non-Greeks having seperate parties. I mean there is no way they can do something as large as a GLO can.

I can't believe I'm helping a fellow Greek. Thankfully y'all likely will not be stealing any of our rushees, so I can give the advice.

Whats the overlap between girls and guys. There's a week that the guys cant be there, and I think rush starts on September 12th, so that puts the 5th. When's girls rush? There's just not a lot of time. I wouldn't throw a real big rush party, rather just throw a bunch of small parties wherever ya'll have your main base house.

Don't use those themes, they were old in 1999 and now it is 2009. Parties don't require themes, and a crappy party is a crappy party regardless of a theme and t-shirt.

Again, I'm graduated...but I'm not terribly sure what the Greek consensus is this year on whether or not to have mondo rush parties or just smaller ones. I kind of think the shift will be towards smaller ones.

Bit off-topic, have you heard the numbers coming through this year? Last year was pretty high, I was just wondering what it was this year.

edit: And VS, every party at the UofA has a theme at least if it's registered...which this one would be.

Buchanan Droke is your fraternity house and not a dorm anymore?

BuchDroke has consistently been fraternity homeless housing for quite sometime. The only year it wasn't was my freshman year...I think. Maybe sophomore year.

When SAE was redoing their house in... maybe 2004? they lived there. They had the most violations of any floor living in University housing ever. Phi Delt lived there last year. There was rumors of another fraternity living in BuchDroke this year besides Sigma Pi, but I think they're moving to Gibson in the Spring.

I swear something was passed here in the past few years that prevented parties with hoe and other things degrading to women or objectifies them as themes from being held, but I can't find the document online. I find it strange that a theme is required, or maybe it is just supposed to have a name like "XYZ Spring Fling" which is vague other than XYZ is having a party and it is spring. To be critical of my own campus there's something to be said where we are against treating women poorly, but white trash or hood/bling parties have been okay, because there's no objectification or insult there either :rolleyes:

I mean, only one suggested objectification of women.

IFC asks for a name for the party when it being registered. They don't allow "gangster" parties...for the objectification reasons...even though "gangster" really doesn't necessarily any specific type of person. I'm pretty sure there was alot of Italian gangsters for those parties. But most people get around that sort of thing by simply naming it something else on the application sheet.

A theme isn't required for a party...really. But it's just standard fare at the University of Arkansas. The only parties that aren't themed are just hall parties that the University doesn't know about.

The fact that IFC (pressure from University Administration?) requires a theme is what is interesting to me as they are adding something extra beyond registration and saying "hey we're having a party." If people are naming it something else on the sheet then it seems pointless to require a theme or have rules about it. Granted even without an unimaginative title the same costumes will be worn, so it seems so extra for something that is ineffective as prevention.

Not that anyone can keep anything secret as someone always posts it on Facebook these days.

ETA: I'm owning my righteous indignation against crappy themes since I never participated in them. I will admit going to one fraternity party that had a sex/lingerie theme as a friend invited me and I was going to say hello and then meet my boyfriend. It was cold outside and I had on jeans, boots, and a North Face fleece, and the party pics were hysterical as a few women from another chapter were dressed similarly and the other women in the photos appeared to have come straight from a Frederick's of Hollywood catalog shoot. There were police calls that night about prostitutes and strippers walking the streets from concerned town residents. I also would like to point out the contradiction of the poster asking for themes as he made a point of saying in a Greek Life forum thread men in The South treated women as Southern Belles and no Southern Gentleman I have ever met or associated with would ask me to a party or throw one where I had to dress like a prostitute. Granted these men have interacted with me outside of The South for the most part, but my Idaho boys think it is distasteful as well as they have mothers and sisters they respect.

I digress but as I've mentioned before I've gone to parties with themes that are executed well, so I'm not against themes, just against crappy overplayed themes (says the woman who made an oven out of a cardboard box and went to an Authors party as Sylvia Plath and her date was Sherman Alexie).

You mean that fraternities live there while they're redoing their houses? BD used to be an awful place--mostly engineering and grad students, especially foreign ones, and it was dark inside and smelled really weird.

The only group I can remember moving out back in the day was Kappa Sig--the word was that they'd torn up their house so for the year of rebuilding, they moved to Skull Creek Apartments down on Leverett and they really ripped that place up.

I guess I have very different expectations, I expect a party to be fun and memorable, regardless of theme.

Oh you could have the party with guys but it would take on a whole new meaning. Men can be hoes too. Chicken Hawks & Jocks, CEOs and Gigolos, Brokeback and Bareback, Pirates and Cabinboys and so on. See, better no theme than these themes?

LOL :D:p

How about:
Fratty & Natty
Bros without Hoes
Dranks without Skanks
Margaritas minus Senoritas



The heat is rotting my brain...

Yeah, when fraternities are fixing up their places they live in BuchDroke and really rip it up. I believe at one point an SAE burnt "SAE" into the carpet there.

BD really sucks, but it's an okay temp place.

BWAH HA HA HA HA HA HA! Hil-ar-ious!

There were enough guys there as Hemingway and Hunter S. Thompson they could have had a sports team...

vandalsquirrel, i hope that you were the social chair of your chapter!!

croakies, could you host a party at wings and things-i believe it is a national chain-or at a local place where wings, beer and billiards, foosball, etc. could be provided?

i would think that rushees would feel uncomfortable with having to wear a costume to their very first fraternity rush party. of course, if only the bros. and the gdi hoes are wearing costumes, then the rushees will be easy to spot!

Yeah, "themes" at Rush parties are really a sorority thing. I've always admired fraternity rush as I imagine it is something like this:

Fraternity member: Hey there, I'm Mike, welcome to XYZ.
Rushee: Hi Mike, I'm Rob.
FM: We're grilling some food over there, drinks are in the cooler, help yourself to the chips and cookies too, Our cook is great and our moms and sweetheart bring us baked stuff all year. We're going to play some (horseshoes, volleyball, frisbee, lacrosse, whatever) later, and then tonight a band starts at 7.
R: Great, thanks.
FM: Hey Chris, let me introduce you to Rob. Rob this is my little bro Chris.

I'm surprised you can have beer at rush and play beer pong.

It's against most national's policies. Fraternity rush, at least at my school is like what you imagined. However at a lot of schools, or even different orgs at the same school, have been known to do nothing but rush parties, though they normally have a very simple theme that the attendees don't have to do anything for.

Pretty much sums it up. That's why I think Fraternity Recruitment stories would be boring; the general thought process usually doesn't consist of more than "These guys are cool, I think I could hang out with them."

I know at my school, there's never alcohol at the rush events during the week. The only events with alcohol are unofficial summer rush events and the 2 joint parties on the weekends of rush (and for those, there's no mention on advertisements and everyone signs a waver before they enter the party).

Senusret I (I think I spelled that right) had an interesting NPHC rush story.. but I'm sure his is the most interesting as it gets.

Every other story would just be recounting the nights going out until the bid is received.. and then going out some more until first rite of passage.

we used to call it detox pong. or another variant red bull pong. but nowadays greek life wont allow cups at events. At first it started as no red cups at official/public events/philos/rush/etc. events. now its gone so far to include all color party cups; but excluding clear cups and fast-food related cups.

The clear cups is probably so you can tell at a glance if there is beer in there or not.

you are correct sir. all other manner of party cups were banned bc it presented a bad image to passersby. understandable but still a pain in ass when you plan food events.

The clear cups are usually more expensive I noticed. Not to mention harder to find. Reminds me when I was in Walmart near a college. In the games section were ping pong balls and red dixie cups. I lmao when I saw that.

I see this all the time down on my campus

I remember once I was on a shopping run. I bought a thing of 100 cups since were having a mixer. As I'm paying for it the guy asked if I was buying them for beerpong. It was pretty funny.

I love when stuff like that happens... a lot of times when me and my roomie grocery shop we get weird looks from the cashier when you buy completely innocent items; cranberry juice, ice, coke...

I guess it just comes with the territory of being a college student

lol yeah. The kid at the counter was college age as well, and I was buyign 100 red cups so yeah. When he asked I answered "No Comment". I then payed and he told me to have fun playing beerpong. I then went next door to buy the beer. I was so glad I wasn't wearing letters.