What crazy hazing rumors have gone around your campus?
 

I was reading the GC members' worst nightmare thread, and I thought I'd start this one. I've heard so many crazy rumors about things that people supposedly do to their new members and I'd love to hear what rumors fly around the freshman dorms at your schools. Here's what I've heard from freshman girls so far:

We make our new members eat HoHo's until they throw up (this changes every year, I think the year I pledged everyone was saying it was M&Ms) :rolleyes:

Some one started one that we're really lazy and we'll all go to bed with our doors open and then we call our new members and make them come down campus to shut our doors for us (who comes up with this stuff??) :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

Here's the grand-daddy (and this one rotates from sorority to sorority each year, currently people are saying it's someone other than us right now). Apparently sororities here make their girls sit naked on basketballs and watch porn....I'm not going to say the rest, it's just not appropriate. Yeah, like that happens!!!! Who in thier right mind would not quit on the spot if anyone actually made them do that??!! I know I would! :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

POTENTIAL NEW MEMBERS: just know that this stuff is purely made up, no chapter in their right mind would do this stuff. If you're in college, you've probably heard it, if you're not yet, you will. Just know that it is bogus. All of us actives just like to laugh about what people who aren't in greek life THINK goes on. Trust me, it doesn't.

There was a rumor going around about one of the sororities saying that they made a pledge sit between two sisters and eat an entire jar of mayonnaise and if she got any barf on either of the sisters she had to start over. :rolleyes:

Supposedly one sorority had a file that contained Xeroxes each pledge had made of her breasts. Each pledge class had to make a middle of the night run to Kinko's and, um, copy themselves!
:rolleyes:

One sorority was rumored to have their letters tattooed on the inside of their thighs (this was back before tattoos were commonplace) :rolleyes:

It was rumored
 

Some other chapters in Texas thought we hazed. Listen to this. Too funny.

Apparently we had thsi thing called the "Wheel of Misfortune". We used it if our pledges got outta line. It was allegedadly a six foot revolving wheel that was placed in a baby pool of water. The pledges were strappd to it and there was a car battery that was next to it and had jumper cables that went from the battery to the pool of water. The pledges were then asked questions and every answer they got wrong, they got a spin on the wheel, dipping their hands feet and head in the water, shocking them.

Um, yeah. Wheel of misfortune. I wanna make a shirt withthat on it. :rolleyes:

Rumor has it, a man and a goat or was it a sheep or maybe a cow. Oh well I forget, but you can use your imagination... :eek:

Re: What crazy hazing rumors have gone around your campus?
 

Amen to that! Of course there are many greeks who like to sit around and make up stuff about other chapters. Its not just a GDI thing!

three words:

Circle the Fat

Hands down the silliest rumor out there on any campus.

Gotta agree with the circle the fat one... Although a sorority here actually did do that way before I was a student here.

One about us that our NATIONALS came up with (:confused: ) was that we made our new members carry around baby bottles and drink out of them. I don't know where they heard this from, but it's ridiculous. :rolleyes:

Let's see... there's a long-standing rumor here about an off-campus (not even national) fraternity. Supposedly, their pledges have to get really friendly with goats. Also, every semester during their hell week they have to go the whole week without showering or changing clothes. I promise you that, unfortunately for those of us who have classes with them, the latter is true. But I don't think the goat thing is. Oh and another one about them is that the pledges do a "pick and stick" where they choose a sorority and they have to rape a girl from that sorority and she has to be wearing letters because they have to get pictures for proof. I never heard this rumor until my sorority was "picked." Funny how no one ever even attempted to abduct any one of us. :rolleyes:

These are rumours that i have heard:

We make our new girls carry around a can of beer in their backpacks to classes.

Circle the fat! (apparently all the sororities do this)

We make them wear white thongs to initiate and they have to run around in them. (um, i don't think when our rittual was founded there were such things as thongs!)

One of the frats has to be "friendly with sheep".

one of the frats have the brothers slit their wrists

I think the fraternity pledges being friendly with sheep and the sorority pledges having their fat circled are the two most notorious rumors around today. :rolleyes: It's too bad that so many people choose to put so much stock in these ridiculous rumors instead of using their God-given brains to do a little research and find out the truth.

The "Circle the fat" rumor is on my campus too. I didn't know the rumor was so widespread.

Here are some others: sorting sprinkles by color, doing pushups in their underwear on top of a sprinkler, pledges have to go to a sisters room to change the channel on their tv, shmegging...

and the most wide spread rumor is of a fraternity that filled a bathtub full of water on the third floor of their house and pledges had to get the water from that tub down to an empty tub in the basement by filling their mouth with water and running downstairs (without swallowing or spitting) and spitting the water out in the tub in the basement.

You mean you didn't have your fat circled?! Am I the only one?! :eek:
Just kidding!

Not necessarily rumors
 

Sad thing is that some of this stuff actually DOES happen. On our campus, and this is no rumor, one of the sororities has their new members sleep in their basement in trash bags. Another group does not allow their new members to go to their rooms for the entire last week of pledging. They carry everything in their backpacks, wear the same clothes and don't shower all week. Trust me, I sat next to one of the pledges when I was a pledge, and that girl REEKED!!! And one of my best friends in high school, while she would not really divulge what she had to do, told me that if they got to do the dishes at night at the house, that was a privilege!!

I know on other campuses, hazing does exist. On one of the campuses that I advise a chapter at, a sorority got caught by their national organization hazing. The group had two choices: repledge or be stripped of their letters. After they made their decision, they sat and with the president of the national organization, sent a letter to the president of all of the other national organizations on campus, telling them of all the hazing that went on in all of the sororities. Some of the stuff was hideous!

The circling the fat one, always seems to be the number 1 sorority rumor.

Sororities:
- you have to ask a guy three questions, like Can I do this... the last one has to be can I have sex with you? if he says yes, you have too
- military aerobic training
- making the new members sleep in the basement and do crossword puzzles all night
- walking to classes backwards
- mandatory library hours with no talking or studying
- cant call home you're entire pledge period

* some of these are just plain dumb

Fraternities
- making the new members run to sorority houses naked
- getting tarred and feathered in rasberry sauce
- im sure we all know about the brick and the string
- also the cookie in the middle
- being left in the middle of nowhere and finding your way home
- lets see how much you can drink
- strip teases

again, mostly dumb rumors

O, i forgot one more...drinking a case of shlitz beer that has been in the oven and if they puked they had to eat it with a fork the next day.

Here is a rumor. At least I hope it is a rumor. One of the underground fraternities here allegedly makes their pledge masturbate on a biscut. The last one to ejaculate has to then eat the biscut.

I heard that "rumor" too. They called it ookie on a cookie. I think that it was true. :eek:

lionlove,

my friend had to sort sprinkles for her sorority when she pledged. she told me they had a blast though. and her boyfriend's (ex now) fraternity DID make them empty dirty bathtub water into a toilet bowl.

it's funny because i see you're from PA and this happened at a school in PA. i wonder if you're at the same school...

;) -cash

Cash78mere,
I'm at Muhlenberg College in Allentown PA. Where did your friend go to school?

hey lionlove!

no, she was at york college of PA. that would've been funny if it was the same school! ;)

Some of these stories are making me LMAO. The circle the fat and goat one fly around here too, but I figured those ones do everywhere so I didn't put them down. I think they were in movies, so that's probably why everyone's heard of them. Since some people put down some pretty vulgar ones, I'll tell the whole story with the basketball thing. Whichever soroity is unlucky enough to be the chosen doers of this for that year make the girls strip down naked and sit on basketballs. Then they pop a porn tape in the VCR and they have to sit there and watch it until the basketball's wet. It is the most disgusting thing I have ever heard of, although the biscut thing was pretty bad, too. Ewwwwww! How could anyone want to be a member of a sorority/fraternity that bad??? Not me. For all you members that said you know some of this stuff is not rumor, did you graduate a while ago or are you still in school now? I know my school was really bad about it years ago but they have cracked down to where it is nearly impossible to get away with anything so no one does. I hope some of this stuff doesn't go on! I guess I just can't imagine how being a part of a greek organization is important enough to humiliate and degrate yourself. Well, keep 'em coming, I am laughing so hard reading these!:D

I'm gonna beat Shultzz to the punch. I like the basket ball one :p

I've heard the "circle the fat" one too, but it was from a chapter advisor. No one on my campus did that. (that I know of!)

Unfortunately, (and I hate to introduce a somber note into this discussion, but...) the "let's see how much you can drink" DID happen on my campus, and someone died. The pledges of a certain fraternity (that I will not name) were apparently told to collectively drink a certain amount of alcohol in one evening. One of them drank most of the amount (his share as well as several of his pledge brothers' shares), got sick, was not properly cared for, went into a coma, and died a couple of days later. He had a BAC that equated to 16 drinks in his system - and you metabolize 1 drink per hour - so he'd had a LOT to drink.

I'm just glad my sorority, as well as all other NPC sororities AFAIK, have a no-alcohol policy.

I know for alot of people the swallowing a goldfish rumor is just that, but back when our chapter started, girls used to have to on their hell night. If you look at our old albums its in there. But we definately are the non-hazers now... we dont let anything happen!

yeah that happened in my chapter back in the days when we were a local...food fights were quite popular also. Ketchup, syrups, eggs, mayo you name it. We cleaned our attic early in the fall and had a good laugh at the pictures...and a grossed out shudder too! YUCK!

Cashmere--

What sorority was she in? I know TONS of people at York :)

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Yes a fraternity on campus here does make the guys spend the last week of initiation at the house and they can't change their clothes or return to the dorm. I know this is true because I used to date the President and I have four sisters that have dated guys in this same fraternity. I don't think this is a bad hazing personally. Because they aren't harming anyone. Well unless you sit next to the guys in class.

I've heard the circle the fat rumor.

The not being able to change clothes and spend the week at the house is a hell week thing at UM, but I know people who have gottem around it.

This is not really a hazing rumor, but it's kind of funny. A fraternity here makes their pledges carry around their pledge books at all times in the waistband in the back of their pants. So I was sitting in the library one day and I heard the alarm at the door keep going off (It does that if someone walks out with a book). I looked up and this pledge was trying to leave but the people at the circulation desk wouldn't let him go till they were satisfied that he wasn't stealing anything. He took everything out of his pockets and kept trying, but nothing worked. It was hilarious to watch him try to figure out what to do about his pledge book because they wanted to see it and he wasn't allowed to show it to them!

Wow....most of these are true on my campus.....

One sorority makes their pledges do "Kegs and Eggs"
Another makes their littles carry around bricks and answer to their name with ridiculous phrases...one girl had to say "Who me? The b*!ch with the big, big titties?"

The fraternities here do the most homo-erotic things ever. And wouldn't you know the worst offender is the one with the most macho guys?

I know that these are all true because everyone is friends with everyone at Bethany, and people have spilled to me. What I think is funny is that some PNM's won't pledge our house b/c we don't do things like this. They say pledging here doesn't sound like "fun"??!!!

At Duquesne, my roommate pledge a sorority where they pretty much controlled her life. She had to eat with them every day, could only go to class if she was with another pledge, had to address all sisters by their full name and say their hometown whenever she saw them, and look down as a sign of deference. She came home crying every night. And what she told me isn't all of it....

Another sorority at Duquesne did do the circle the fat, masturbate on a basketball things....the girls who pledged this house lived next door to me. Plus, they came to get them at 1 AM, made them dress like whores, and walk the streets of Oakland asking anyone if they were "looking for a good time.'

Ick...I'll stick with my "boring", non-hazing house!

That we have a underground TKE chaper.

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Yeah Moxie, we had sororities like that too. I will never forget one night being in bed in the dorm when this loud knocking came at our door. I was like "what the hell, is the building burning down or something?". I opened up the door and it was a sorority looking for one of their pledges, and it was about 2:30 in the morning!!! Guess they had the wrong door, but they had two pledges with them dressed up in crazy get ups with the word "BAG" written across their foreheads. Lovely :) I'll stick with my boring non-hazing house as well :)

Was this one of the locals at Duquesne? When I was at Pitt some years back there was a Duquesne sorority called Tau Delta Tau that was pretty notorious for their bad hazing. I just wondered if they were still around and if this was them.

she is a Phi Sigma Sigma! I LOVE her sisters!

York is known for some crazy (and funny) hazing-type stuff.

Who do you know there? What sororities/fraternities are you most friendly with?

:)

The craziest rumor has to be the lingerie pillowfights. I mean, after a day's work- exec meetings, panhel stuff, philanthropy events....all my sisters come home, throw on our sexiest lingerie and running screaming around my sorority house, beating each other with down pillows. Yup, happens everyday!!

I hear that rumor all the time too! ;) I think those Hanes commercials with half-clothed girls painting houses, cooking, pillowfighting, etc, don't help. I mean, really, who paints a house in their underwear?!?

Yeah, my boyfriend says that he WISHES that the rumor he heard about the ZTA lingerie pillow fights were true. ;)

In high school, I heard a rumor that one of the fraternities at UCF did something called the Elephant Walk. This is kinda gross so beware! Supposedly, all the guys stood naked in a line. They each had to walk with one thumb in their mouth and the other in...ahem...the guy in front them's buttocks. If the guy stumbles, he has to switch thumbs. UGH!!!!! YUCK!!!! It's not true though!

I held a leadership position on one of the student organizations my freshman year. The advisor was very anti-greek. She had gone to UCF and had graduated about five years before. She had the nerve to say to me, "When I was an undergraduate, they use to make all the new ZTA's sleep with at least one frat boy before initiation. Do they still make you do that?" I answered sarcastically, "Yes...after they circle our fat." :rolleyes:
And, no, ZTA never made their pledges sleep with frat guys!

RUMORS GALORE!!!
 

My campus has it's share of rumors. Here are a few:

-Phi Tau's house has an underground tunnel to ZTA's house for "easy access" rendezvouses
-DZ pledges have to be gangbanged by 4 brothers of SAE prior to initiation
-Each KD pledge has to sit in the middle of a room surrounded by the sisterhood and has to survive an undetermined duration of belitiling
-TKE pledges are given a a puppy at the pledge inductions. they raise the puppy thoughout plegeship, get attached to it, then the night before initiation, the must slit the throats of the dogs.
(And let's not forget the rumor of my chapter, LMAO...........)
-APO "supposedly" invites Gamma Sigma Sigma to a "night of pleasure" with our new brothers right after inititaion.

Of course, these are all complete and utter BULLS**T!!!!

YUCK, I have heard the Elephant walk one too.

Me too - the grossest ones must travel the fastest!