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Serenading to Sororities?
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I'm new to this board, and I just had a question I figured all of you would be able to help me with! Anyway my fraternity needs to serenade to all the sororities on campus (I don't know how it works on other campuses, but at the beginning of the year all the fraternities serenade all the sororities). But I wanted to see if you all had any ideas on what my fraternity could do! Just to give you an idea, Pike here on campus has their new guys sings to the sororites in a Top Gun theme, and Pi Kapp last year I heard made their new guys serenade shirt and tie, but wearing boxers. Any of you have any good ideas? Themes, songs, etc? Thanks so much! `Alex Phi Kappa Tau |
If you have any guys with musical talents, like guitar or sax, the girls go wild!
Also, it helps to bring roses to the sororities when you serenade them. Some of my favorites were when the guys took a current pop song and rewrote the lyrics with our sororities' name in them! Dressing uniformly is fun-- ie: blue button down shirts with khaki's and neckties... Also, if you can incorporate a brief skit in with your song, you will really stand out. Have fun! |
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Fraternity Men should serenade ladies with class and dignity.
As such, my advice is that a serenade should be appropriate for your Grandmother, your Mother, your Sister, your Girlfriend and perhaps, your future Bride to hear. |
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And if I may add, the honor of bestowing that designation - ladies or not - is the responsibility of the fraternity. ;) |
yeah, special songs with sorority names in there are awesome. As far as bringing stuff...It would be nice to bring a sign or something, or chocolate, or COOKIES! SORORITIES LOVE COOKIES!
(PS, make sure they know you're coming! girls who don't live in the house enjoy these things too!) |
During serenades, have brothers or pledges/associate members/new members bring the women out to dance.
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serenades???
How crazy, I thought serenading was only done in books. The fraternitys don't sereanade here, probably because we don't have houses. But hmm how fun!
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Where and why did this tradition start??? We don't have houses either, but I don't know if I would want every Fraternity on my campus to serenade my org just because its a given that they "have" to do it.... What do the sororites do in return? Do they serenade the guys?? |
It all depends on the campus... every campus has a different reason why groups serenade eachother... At my school it had been to try to get something returned... The sorority or fraternity would "borrow" an item from the chapter room (with permission from the chapter beforehand) and then the sorority or fraternity would sing to get it back... The chapter who "borrowed" the item will sing in response and then you give the item back... It is pretty fun... and groups do actually ask for permission beforehand, so it is all in good fun...
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we call them kissing carnations :) .....We do them mostly for our new members, most of the fraternitys have a song like the "Kappa Sigma Sweeheart" song...if not they make one up and have a guy play guitar. They get on one knee sing, then each guy has a name of a new member, steps to the front calls her name, gives her the carnation and kisses her cheek. Its sooo cute, i wish i was a baby again!:p
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At SHSU the guys seranade when they give Bids for mixers. (Explanation: The fraternities choose the sororities they are willing to mix with and seranade them at their house before their meeting. They bring flowers for the New Members and extend an invitation to mix with them (giving a mixer idea). Then the sororities vote on the fraternities they want to mix with and call the social chairs of the fraternities. )
It is usualy soooo much fun for the guys to sing or do a skit! |
Kappa Sigma at Rhodes has sang this one all year long, how romantic:
We're a bunch of dirty bastards Scum of the Earth We're a bunch of dirty bastards And we go from bad to-- mother f'kin sons of b'tches (something about whorehouses) We're Kappa Sigma And we love you. Sweet bunch of boys, really. |
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At my school serenades are a common event during an organization's philanthropy weeks, though during several weeks the girls have serenaded the guys (the guys have houses, the girls don't...so reciprocation is somewhat limited).
Also, my sorority has put a twist on serenading in this past year. For our philanthropy week in the fall we asked the participants to serenade the children at St. Jude Children's Hospital (our national philanthropy) rather than our chapter of Tri Delta, then recorded the serenades in a video to send to the hospital for the patients to watch. To increase our good public relations with the other organizations on campus, we serenaded every organization over the course of the semester as a way to thank them for supporting us and all their hard work on campus. |
At our campus, it's one of the requirements for the new members. The fraternities will come serenade the sororities and vice versa. It's so much fun. When the fraternities come to our house, the usually will sing a few songs and then have our new members go by their new members (Delta Sig has our new girls sit on their knee) and will sing them a sweetheart song. At some point, they will introduce all of their new members.
Different houses will bring different things. SAE always makes us a paddle from their new members. Other houses will make cookies or bring flowers. Whenever we go serenading, we usually bring cookies over to all the fraternities. Serenading is a really fun thing we do, and it's something I always look forward to! |
We had serenades for our philanthropy last fall, and one of the houses wrote us a poem...
"Roses are red, violets are blue Who loves Kappas?? I do!! I do!! Faces like angels Hearts filled with love When Kappa babies are born They're touched from above..." It was adorable to see that they took a little time on their serenade. Lambda Chi also put their mom in their skit (most of our serenades involve a little skit, too) and her character was to play OUR house mom... and the boys played different Kappas. That's always fun to see how well they know us and stuff... singing doesn't hurt though either!! |
One year, when I was still a collegiate, one of the fraternities invited all the sorority housemothers to dinner on a Monday night which was sorority meeting night. They served it very formal. They sent each of the sororities a candle and a note and told what time we were suppose to light the candle and then open the note. We were told that our housemother had been kidnapped and the ransom to get her back was for us to serenade both the bothers and the housemothers. Was really a lot of fun.
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I grew up in a small southern college town. The Sigma Chi house was located just a few blocks down from our home.
When I was ten, while my older biological brother was an undergrad, the chapter decided to go all out for the All Campus Sing festival that spring. At the time the chapter didn't have a piano, so my brother asked my Mother - who is a Sigma Sigma Sigma - if it would be ok to 'borrow' our piano (it was an upright) and take it down the street to the chapter house. My Mother reluctantly agreed. After all, she knew what it meant to be Greek. Because my Mother had agreed to help, the chapter decided to do something special for her. My brother enlisted me and my next oldest brother (who also became a Sig) to be sure that our Mother would be home when they came for the piano. Why...? Well, when the night came to pick up the piano, the whole chapter quietly assembled outside our home and began to serenade our Mother. Side note: We also lived across from a woman's dorm and we could see all the lights coming on in the rooms with the girls lining up to see what was going on. They were all very much moved. Once our Mother heard the singing, she went to our front door and quickly realized what was going on. I remember to this day how touched she was. And when the chapter sang "The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi" to her, tears sprang to her eyes. After they were done, each member came in and paid their respects to my Mother and presented her with a bouquet of flowers. Then they gently - or so we were told - took the piano down to the chapter house. Postscript: The chapter won All Campus Sing that year, and for many more years to come. Postscript 2: After that, 'the boys' - as my Mother called 'her' Sigs - were allowed to borrow the piano every year until the chapter purchased their own. She was so won over that one year - shortly thereafter - she allowed the chapter to use her grandmother's china for parents' weekend. Before hand, she instructed the chapter on proper manners and etiquette. And of course she was present for the event to 'officially' help. Yet in reality she was there to be sure that nothing happened to her grandmother's china. I guess you could say that while my brothers were with the chapter, she sort of became an unofficial 'house mom' for the chapter. All because of a night of serenading. |
Ahh TSteven... that is the sweetest story!
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Way too often, these types of activities go unnoticed outside the people involved. Yet, it is the 'little things' a chapter does - living by the ideals and principals that the fraternity was founded upon - that is the true heart and soul of the brotherhood. The same with sororities. |
Recently my brother's fraternity (same campus, and my best friends) threatened to kidnap me, take me to their house and duct-tape a bottle to my hand, and not release me until my sisters came and sang to them to get me back.....lol.
They would've done it too, had me thrown over my brother's shoulder and walking out the door of our hall, when four or five of my sisters saw them and made them put me down.....lol! At the time I was upset (I'd had a bad day too) and kicked them off the hall, but looking back, it was really funny..... Also, one of the fraternities on our campus (Either Delta Chi or Sigma Nu I think) has their new members come and serenade our new members....I had scarlet fever that day, and unfortunately couldn't make it, so I don't remember who it was. I head that they were great, however! I wish we would get sung to more often. |
Serenades
We always serenaded the girls at Hooters during rush week.
One of the coolest memories was when one of our brothers proposed to his wife, then girlfriend, at her sorority meeting. We invaded the Alpha Phi's meeting (planned in advance by both groups) about 8ish. We serenaded the Alpha Phi president, our brother's chic, while our brother gave her the ring and the girls all went bonkers. They've been happily married for a few years now. Fraternally Yours, Boodleboy322 |
My brother's lavaliering to his girlfriend was very sweet. Her AXiD chapter was having an xmas party and asked some of his fraternity brothers to be elves. He wanted to be an elf too but he was too big for the costume. However, the santa had backed out! So PhoenixBrother got to be santa. On the walk down to her house, he decided that he was going to lavalier his GF. One of his brothers (an elf) had lavaliered his AXiD girlfriend the spring before, and she had two lavaliers. So PhoenixBro pulled her aside and asked her for one of her necklances. He let all the girls sit on his lap and tell him what they watned for Xmas and he gave them each like a candy bar or something little. When his girlfriend finally sat down on his lap, she told him what she wanted...and he said "Well, I don't have that, but how about this?" and put it around her neck!
Now I know that's not the traditional way to lavalier your girl, but I had to give my brother some major points for creativity. Although he got some off for not having a lavalier of his own! Turns out my brother can actually be pretty thoughtful when he wants to be. |
As far as I know, Beta is the only fraternity at our university to serenade the sororities. We dressed up in suits, walked to all 9 houses, gave them roses, and sang three songs (one of which being a Christmas song, cuz it was in December). The ladies definitely enjoyed it. It's a little stressful and time consuming for us, but it was worth it.
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something not to do....
A group of a certain fraternity new members (who shall remain nameless) serenaded a certain sorority (who shall remain nameless but was not Gamma Phi) naked and set their own pubic hair on fire while they were there. Dumbasses. *lol* It was about 2 a.m. and they were drunk to say the least! It's true... *lol* but needless to say did not make a good impression. Good luck with your serenade. Bring the sororities their sorority flower. :-) |
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One fraternity here at Mizzou goes streaking through the front yard of every sorority... sometimes during serenades, etc. (It didn't happen to us because they knew better... our house mother WOULD NOT have had that!! :p ) Anyways, a lot of the girls looked forward to it... Personally, I preferred the boys with guitars singing to us and the boys dressed up as some of our Kappas... :) |
I always loved when Pi Kappa Phis were pledging, because one Thur night the pledges would walk around and sing the sweetheart song (all i remember is something about a rose) to pretty much every single girl they saw. They all had matching clothes on and got down on one knee- too cute!!!
I only remember that frosh and soph years...maybe they stopped or maybe it was just because I lived on a different part of campus jr and sr year. |
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The pledge class of the fraternities comes during row walks (on Monday nights) and serenades the sororities. They usually give roses to our house mother, president, and often social chair.
It's so sweet! They almost always match, and often someone plays the guitar. |
Since we pair up for homecoming, the spring pledges of the fraternity have to organize and plan and go to the chapter meeting of the sorority they're inviting to do HC with them and serenade them. Most of the time, it's fixed up oldies that put the name of the fraternity and sorority in it together. All of our exec's got flowers handed to them personally, and then a basket of roses got passed around the chapter (too many girls to hand out individually!) It's a really cute, really sweet thing for the guys to do, all of us girls love it, and it's funny to see the new pledges do.
Oh, and at another school I know, all the new fall pledges of a sorority, within the first week of pledging (it's a designated day, but I don't know which) go to each fraternity house and sing to them. Occasionally the fraternities sing back, but it's kind of like a "hello, we're new!" kinda thing. |
We're the only chapter, that I know of, on our campus that serenades the sororities each winter. We visit each sorority house (there are only 9) and sing two Beta songs and one Christmas song. The last two years we brought roses with us to give to their house moms. It usually gets pretty good responses from the girls. They typically cram into their chapter room or on their staircases and stare at us all stary-eyed.
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The GLOs at Iowa State serenade for a variety of reasons:
- For Homecoming/Greek Week/Varieties/VEISHEA pairings (these are usually rather intricate with skits, props and popular songs rewritten for the specific event. For two events the women serenade the men, for the other two the men serenade the women.) The accepting group then had to turn around and create a return serenade formally accepting the pairing. - For formals and/or date parties. We would get all dressed up, usually in black dresses, and go around to the different fraternities who had invites from girls. After we sang our songs, the guys would have to go through the line and kiss each girl on the cheek to get his invite. - On Bid Day. The fraternities usually came around and sang to the new pledge classes. Some were cute, some were funny and some you just felt so sorry for (because it was mid August and you could tell they'd been out and about singing for a while). - For holidays, Founders Days or other special events. There were usually only two or three fraternities who did this. - To present New Initiates. Some fraternities would come around with everyone dressed up and sing to present their new active members. Serenading was such a big part of the Greek Community, I hope its a tradition that doesn't die out. |
ECUJacob.... I hate to tell you that you are not the only group to serenade. Although definately the classiest, although I only saw you guys sing once. The other groups usually sing at the pref social... but it is cute...
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Jacob... I am old...but I believe you are in my class (MBA program).
The only time I got to hear you guys sing was the first (or maybe the second) semester you were on campus... I graduated in 03. but it was super cute... Betas are definately the most gentlemanly on campus:) |
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