Door chants
 

I'm curious to know which chapters/schools do door chants?

We don't do them at Florida State, so when I first heard of them from friends at different colleges, I was flabbergasted. I looked up youtube videos of some and was even more stunned! :eek: What exactly is the point of door chants?

I always thought door chants were really silly, but they really do get your energy up for the party. It also gets the PNMs going.

All the chapters do door chants at Tulsa University: Chi O, Tri Delt, Phi Mu (sadly, chapter closed), KD, Kappa, DG, Theta -- the order on sorority row, from closest to campus, to furthest.

At the end of day, every house had to shut their front door within a certain time of the last party being over (within minutes or it was a Rush infraction).

But, Panhell said NUTHIN' about windows! Since Chi O was the closest to campus and all the PNMs (or "Rushees" at that time) had to pass by our house to get back to the dorms, we would open up the windows on the north-side of the house and sing as loudly as we could so the Chi O song was the last thing they heard.

We were always sneaky like that ... :D

haha I don't know if I'd say that. We didn't have to do them this year, but I know our girls wanted to do one parties' worth of hair-flipping... not however many parties there ended up being plus all the practice that needs to go into it! I don't think the actives love doing it, but it's the status quo. From what I understand, it's kind of physically painful.

Oh, I can still sing quite a few of them:

K-A-P-P-A D-E-L-T-A, Kappa Delta, Kappa Delta!
Pi Beta Phi for you, Pi Beta Phi for me!
A-Chi-O, Alpha Chi let's go!

Good Lord!! I have never seen this hair flipping phenomenon before! :eek:

Hair flippers at USC Alpha Phi chapter

University of Texas at Austin did them. (No hair flipping that I remember) Scared the beejesus out of me at the first house I went to - they were banging their blinds/shutters, screaming, etc. Yikes!

I can still chant so many of them and I can still remember being hoarse from practice my first year on the "other side." But, I also remember walking across campus and randomly getting someone else's sorority chant stuck in my head!

With a D, with an E, with an L, T, A - with a G,A,M,M,A - a Delta Gamma, that's what I am-a.

Chi Omega, Chi, Chi, Chi-Omega, Hello, we're glad you're here, we hope you go Chi-O.

Pi, Pi Beta, Pi, Pi, Pi Beta Phi

Theta, theta, theta, theta. It's good to be a, got to be a, Kappa Alpha Theta.

We only did the door chants for Open House, and 1st round. For skit night and pref we sang, but no chanting.

ETA: Yikes! After viewing the hair flipping that seems crazy! We could NOT cross the threshold of our doors when we were chanting - rush fines! We piled up/used risers, etc. to fill up the door, but we couldn't be outside the doors at all.

I have never seen the hair flipping. That would almost be worth cutting your hair short.....

Oh, my chapter did the door chants big time! We had an advantage over the other sororities (we were all housed in one 10 story dorm) because we were on the second floor so we had a ten foot ledge that we all stood out on when we did the chants and our big mouths could drown out everyone else :)

I am a D
I am a Z
I am a D-E-L-T-A-Z-E-T-A
and I will L-O-V-E love
my S-I-S-T-E-R-S
we'll be together F-O-R-E-V-E-R-M-O-R-E

over and over and over....

By the Light of the Lamp
By the Light of the Lamp
By the bright, shiny light, by the Light of the Lamp
If you wanna be a DZ, just come along with me
By the bright, shiny Light of the Lamp
Yee Ha!

Good Times :)

I will never forget the first chant that I heard when I rushed at USC. When my youngest went through she was prepared but it is daunting.

As for hair flipping...my daughter's neck began to hurt. There is an "art" to doing it correctly.

I believe they still do them at Alabama and Birmingham-Southern College.

I consider a door chant when the front door slings open and you see nothing but screaming faces... the girls at the bottom of the door are on their stomachs and the next row leans on them and next, girls are on their knees, then squatting, standing and finally on other girls shoulders.

I thought this mainly evolved when the 1991 NPC Rush Guidelines were handed down with no outside decorations or performances.

It made my neck hurt just looking at the YourTubes. Thanks for sharing!!

Stacking a door properly is an art form.

We do door chants at IU sans hair-flipping

Ours is Boom Boom

Truer words were never spoken.

All these years later I can sing some of those songs. It's done because it is a HUGE marketing bonus. When you have 15 chapters to keep straight, having the song in your head goes a long way. But that doesn't answer why I can still sing the DG, Pi Phi, Kappa, Tri-Delta, ADPi, Gamma Phi and A Phi songs 30 years later! Back in my day, we did the chants (no hair flipping, that's just weird) for Welcome, Welcome Back and Panorama (an extra day of rush that no longer exists). At RSVP (the round before Preference) I think we did something but it was more tame, and then for preference it was like BOOM. Serious. No chants, but beautiful songs on the lawn before inviting the girls in one by one.

I like it for the memorable part, and having it outside means you're not blowing the heads off the rushees who are sitting right next to you. But there was a lot of competition for who could be the loudest. If we couldn't drown out the Gamma Phis, we were in big trouble.

I know what you mean. I was in school from 1963-66 and I can still remember the Phi Mu lawn song and the Kappa one! They were across the street from us. Along with ours. How did I hear theirs well enough if I was singing ours????? P H I M M U, P H I MU Phi Mu! Kaa-aappa Kaa-aappa Kaa-appa Gaaa-ama, I am so haaa-aapy thaa-at I aa-aama.....

Maybe it's a Southern thing, but we use waaaaaaay too much hairspray to be flipping it around like that

Ha! We used so much Aqua Net (late eighties hairspray; not sure if it's still around) that our hair would have probably broken in half if we'd tried to flip it around!

And don't forget the dippity-do styling gel too. No way a hurricane could have moved that hair!

I think they still sell it, but I don't know if it's very popular.
Tresemme Level 5 is superglue in a can though.

More on topic: We do have stomping and wall-banging. The looks on the girls' faces Day 1 Round 1... priceless.

Maybe -- back in the day -- the origin of the hair-flipping (had NOT seen that before) was to make sure the actives don't drink during Recruitment.

There is NO WAY I could do the hair-flipping with a hangover!

Funny that you should mention it...they're still using the same songs!

YIKES!

Dippity Do...a little dab with do ya!!!

OMG...I didn't use it...but I remember the advertisement with the little pixie cut.

.......I guess I'm NOT having a senior moment. I remember!

hahahahahaha!

The hair flipping terrifies me.

This is what our door chants are like. I love our chapter house because we have 3 sets of french doors next to one another that we fill completely. It looks really awesome, I wish I had a pic/video!

my cousin used Dippity Do and orange juice cans for the perfect flip that did not move!

We all had big front steps, or patios if you will. We had to stay on the patio, but all 100 or so girls would be crammed out there. But the Pi Phis were known for backing into their door as they sang at the end of each party, all while facing forward and singing, clapping, doing the whole thing at the top of their lungs. We all wondered how they did that without breaking a leg or falling like so many dominoes. We at least had a huge, open, rectangular patio and a large front door. But a big ole French door would have been worth its weight in gold to a sorority during rush.

We do that where I advise now but there are no steps since we all recruit in a hall in the University Center. There are double doors and the women walk the PNMs to the door and then back up the line as each one leaves. All the alums are in the room making sure no one backs into a chair or table....

I had never seen or heard of the hair flipping thing until someone posted a video from DG at USC the other day on another thread. The video was shot at night and all I could see was the hair being flipped like crazy from within the house. It took me a minute to figure out what was going on haha. Door chants were never done when I went thru rush. This year's recruitment (Jan. at the school my daughter attends) will be my daughter's first as an active. She said they've already been practicing and that her knees are sore as she is small and therefore one of the ones kneeling at the bottom.

Oh, the door stacks! I rushed 19 years ago, and I can remember chants from houses that cut me after first round.

They're catchy.

Of course as a rushee, at house one on day one - I nearly came out of my skin!

We practiced walking backwards into the house, waving, and then starting the goodbye chant, but not before crossing the threshold of the door, lest we get fined.

S-I-G-M-A K-A-P-P-A
Sigma Kappa, you'll agree
Is the best sorority!

Channeling k_slut right now, but http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymKLymvwD2U

And in this heat and humidity? I can only imagine!


http://s1.hubimg.com/u/6311512_f248.jpg

They were big at UCF when I was in school, and I still remember all of them years later.

funny response to that vid:

I need a chiropractor after watching this

Thank you for this memory! :D

We used to save both large and small juice cans for my cousin's flip; she died several years ago and today would have been her 63rd birthday.

I can't speak for XO at FSU, but I know Alpha Gamma Delta at Florida State does.

We used to do very elaborate "walk outs" at Mizzou. It would take about 7 minutes to do the chants and the walk outs. There were choreographed skips, marches, runs, claps, etc.
This year they decided to do away with the walk outs and we are just doing door chants.
Sorry I don't have any videos!