Tell me your best tent talk stories
 

I love the stories people tell on GC. Tell me your best tent talk stories (obviously with fake sorority letters and no actual campus names such as ABC at Big University).

Anyone have a good one? (As if I have to ask!) ;)

My memory is fading, but I remember some from when I was a recruitment counselor and having to correct the PNM's.


ABC requires you to go to Bible Study.

XYZ circles your fat.

OMG makes you lie in a coffin at initiation/you can only wear your underwear to initiation/there's a live lion at initiation.

LMN is on probation and they're closing.

If you're at RS and the sister who is rushing you puts her arm around you, its a signal to the other sisters that you're going to be cut.

Once you join VWX, you have mandatory etiquette and makeup lessons. Everyone has to wear makeup.

The biggest rumor: JKL got the wrong invite lists and it ruined their whole recruitment. They got back all the girls they dropped and released the ones they wanted and now they're stuck with them.

ABC hazes, their national president's daughter went through rush/pledged ABC and the president told them she wanted ABC to haze her daughter

A girl in PQ didn't know she was pregnant and gave birth in the bathroom

I have plenty more :)

OMG...you mean I missed out on a chapter with a live lion?? I feel cheated...we didn't even release the live doves at my SK initiation since I was an informal class. ;)

There was a running joke during the new member period about our initiation that "when you go before the lion, go low and to the left." Someone must have taken it seriously. She was clearly disappointed. The chapter put the kibosh on the joke with a stern admonition, but I can see where the rumor during recruitment may have started.

AB sorority requires their pledges to sleep with a fraternity man(or more than one) or the new member will NOT be initiated!

Sororities will offer you a Coke in a bottle at recruitment.

If you drink straight from the bottle, you are automatically cut because ladies NEVEH EVEH drink straight fom a bottle, even if dying of thirst.

If you demurely ask for a straw, preferably while clutching your pearls, you will be invited to the next round, since that proves that you are obviously a lady.

Honest....

If XY sisters cross their arms behind their back during a recruitment party, they are signaling the other sisters that you're cut and they shouldn't bother talking to you.

And if XY sisters cross their arms over FACING THE PNM during a recruitment party, they are signaling the other sisters that you're cut and they shouldn't bother talking to you.

Or is she just cold? I forget.

ABC is a bunch of lesbians and they have "topless fridays" in the house.

EFG google maps your parent's house to see if it's big and in a "rich area"

If you eat all of your dessert at HIJ they will cut you.

KLM makes all of their new members start tanning and they give them hair and makeup tutorials.

My favorite: Don't join NOP because every girl that joins gains like FIFTY POUNDS their first semester. (These actives were not even large, so I don't know where that one came from).

Yes and Yes.

ABC will do a Dun and Bradstreet on your parents, if not the entire family.

If you get a bag of popcorn at DEF, you're done. If you get a box of popcorn, you're bid-worthy.

Even though there are no national constraints, GHI will not pledge a woman who isn't (fill in the religion).

Your rec to JKL must be from an alumna of that particular chapter.

All MNOs cheat at cards, but are very good at it, too. They are also brunette PQRs (who are all blonde, or will be by graduation)!

If you need to use the ladies room at STU, you will walk by the posters marking how each PNM is doing. Figure out where your name would be so you can glance at it on the way!

Wearing open toed pumps was as good as wearing the Scarlet Letter.



(Yes, I went through Rush, not Recruitment, with even stricter rules, if you can imagine that!)

This one I thought was just gross:

Girls is ABC have to sit without underwear on newspaper and watch lesbian porn. The first one to get "turned on" (for lack of a better term) was called a lesbian and made fun of. :/

If you haven't met the chapter's president by skit round, you're cut.

Well none of the actives are in their first semester anymore, so they must have lost the weight before the next formal recruitment! Duh.

:p

Ugh, I have to look at D&B reports every day at work. I think I would have quit on day 1 if I had spent all my college years looking at them too!

ABC has a scale under their doormat and if your BMI is over (Something low, can't remember now) you will be cut.
DEF only takes ex cheerleaders.
GHI will take anyone because they are going to be closed due to low membership.
JKL requires your bank account numbers upon initiation.
MNO will drop you if you have ever talked to a member of a certain fraternity.
PQR has their rho gammas look at the invite list of STU and take their top girls/drop the shared girls.

One of the members of LMN is a high-priced call girl. She's putting herself through school with her earnings (this was rampant about "someone" in the house next door to us...at least the rumor was that she was "high-priced" and apparently putting her profits toward a good cause ;)).

On Saturday nights, after the girls come back from their dates, they have topless pillow fights in their rooms with the window shades open.

Oh wait, that's fraternity rush tent talk.

LOL!!

At ABC - if you eat the food at prefs - you will be cut
At DEF - they have two colors of napkins. If you dont get a pink napkin - you will be cut. (One girl burst into tears ehen they handed her a drink.)

You will be judged on the quality of your philanthropy craft-if you are incapable of carrying on a brilliant conversation, while creating a craft comparable to the Sistine Chapel ceiling, don't plan on receiving an invitation to their next round of parties-this covers all the sororities, except, of course, the "bottom rung" sorority who will invite everyone because they are that desperate.

XXX asks every rushee (in casual conversation) what her father does for a living. That is their way of making sure the girl-or her family-can afford the dues.

to follow HGWest's first rumor, if you don't eat the food at pref. you will insult the sorority and you will end up at the bottom of the bid list.

If the rusher asks you to sing along with the songs it's a trick to get you cut so she can keep her rush crush high on the list

These ^^^^ existed on my campus, along with:

Your first house party is the home of your Rush Counselor (that one really WAS true, ten counselors for ten homes and fact-checked at Pref Sign/Reveal).

When members of VY make huge etiquette mistakes as they rush you, they will not invite you into membership.

I've heard a few whoppers (not rush, but hazing-related, I guess):

-Pledges of XYZ are required to dress in Disney costumes and show up to fraternity guys' dorm rooms
-Pledges of ABC have been hazed by being given a choice between 3 lines of coke and 3 guys to, uh, service
-ABC also, apparently, had a pot farm in the house
-DEF's house is haunted
-GHI pledges were hazed by being locked in a heated room with pledges of PQR frat, given beer, and "I'm Blue" was played over and over again, while the sisters sat back and waited to see what would happen
-Members of JKL were asked to sleep with with highly desirable sports recruits to try to get them to commit to the school

This one has actually happened more than once at my school (which is rather notorious for houses being split along religious lines), and when nationals got wind of it, they got REALLY mad.

XYZ has so many legacies coming through that they will cut everyone who isn't.

Some people thought that what the girls did with your notecard (with your name and party info on it, idk how many other schools do that but we do it at UGA) had some kind of meaning. If it went on the left or right side meant you were cut or weren't, if they kept it and played with it while you were talking it was a bad sign, etc.

There were also rumors about what area they take you to on the lawn. If you were on the left/right you were kept/released.

***Sidebar: my roommate was an XYZ and within her first couple of weeks she SWORE to me that the side of the lawn thing meant something at XYZ. She was like, "You know that rumor? It really is true! The older girls told me." Keep in mind my roommate was VERY dramatic and while she was excited to pledge XYZ at first (it was her legacy), she would later go on to complain about weird things like how "XYZ didn't have good chapters in her area (she was OOS) and so now all her friends think she isn't in a good sorority." Let's not even think about the awful things she said about her poor big. She wasn't really a nice person. She ended up transferring back to her home state (where XYZ is a "bad" sorority). :rolleyes: I took everything she said with a grain (handful) of salt.

lol to this day, my husband still thinks this is all we did

We did that, but it meant, "someone come help, I can't talk to this girl!"

Thanks for the stories! I'm enjoying them. Several of them have been new to me even after all the years of reading GC. :)

When I went through recruitment, TPA was new on campus and it was their first formal recruitment. This girl in my group kept telling everyone she was friends with basically ever sorority member ever and that TPA was the "free space" (as in Bingo..it's just a given and no one is excluded) and that they'll take ANYONE because they're new and "need the numbers." They kept inviting me back despite my heavy cuts so it kind of got in my head....till that girl (and a few others in my group) got cut!!
FYI- she was dismissed from recruitment (I'm guessing because of her attitude) and I can assure you I got some nasty looks from her when I showed up to the class we had together with my TPA bag!

Karma ran over the dogma!

I've never heard that one, but it certainly is appropriate in this case! LOL! :D

Bring a box
 

QW makes you bring a box to the house without telling you what it is for.
Then they tell you that you have to sleep in it.

I remember hearing these.

I'm super pale. Still preffed at ABC and DEF where people claimed the chapters had their own tanning beds that you only got to use after initiation. ;)

Still super pale!

haha people really think we have time for all that nonsense? :cool:

The "hand signals" one was always talked about (to tell if the girl is cut or not)!

AB will only take double legacies (mother & grandmother) because there are so many legacies.

XYZ has girls stand in their underwear while a group from DEF fraternity comes in and circles areas they need to lose weight on their bodies.

XYZ will only invite back girls if they're wearing True Religion or Seven Jeans.

GHI makes first cuts based on your rush registration photos.

All girls in ABC smoke, and if you don't they won't give you a bid.

The girls in DEF are all socially awkward and therefor give bids to anyone.

ABC makes the pledges sit on a washing machine and circles anything that jiggles

DEF makes their pledges swallow a live goldfish

GHI Made the pledges take shots from in between a guys legs

So what have these tent stories revealed? That most rumors come out of truth. In the case where ABC only takes girls who date DKE, this was started because every active dated guys in that fraternity, it's similar to ABC is Blonde or an education major. Birds of a feather do flock together. I wish I could say my school had outlandish gossip in recruitment but the stories all stemmed from things our family members had said. Even the rumor that FGH ran over a pledge turned out to be true, even if it happened way before we were in college. The question is who starts the rumors? How do so many pnm know that KLZ is on probation for low numbers, and yes they will give bids to every girl and hope 50 accept. Tent talk adds predjudices to recruitment that can change the opinions and actions of impressionable freshman

Winnie, are you on crack? Obviously, most of these don't originate from true stories.:rolleyes: