Crazy Rumors
 

What are some crazy rumors about your GLO that people on your campus believe? Ours were that you had to submit your parent's tax forms to prove they made a certain amount of money and that you had to do a line of cocaine on initiation night.

Hmmmm...we just had lots of the typical ciricling parts of fat rumors going on.

Nothing too special.

We have LOTS of stereotypes about my house though...surrounding us eating Karats (carrots) and other fun dumb stuff like that.

Re: Crazy Rumors
 

lol, what school are you at?

It was rumored on campus that a certian sorority made their new members shove a cucumber up a goat's butt at initiation. I'm not lying about this one!

well i guess better a goat's butt than your own butt, haha

PETA would have an organizational orgasm going after that one

eeeww..thats absolutley disgusting....even just the thought.

No good rumors at my school, but on the subject of goats, a friend of mine told me about a rumor at her school that for initiation a fraternity would bring in a goat and smear their NM's genitals with peanut butter. That one is quite gross.

This is something that started off as a crazy rumor but turned out to be true. All of our sororities are pretty new, around six years, while our local chapters that we came out of were along for a long time. There was a rumor that one sorortiy still initiated into their old local sorority, they would wear their letters around campus.

Then the truth finally came out. apparently there was some intiating into the old sorority. but not everyone got to do it. There was a sorority within a sorority. those girls that were in the local sorority would pick random girls out of the rest of the sorority to initiate into the local. They finally got cause and national's came down and about seven or eight of their girls ended up deactivating. It was a big deal on campus because this sorority was the one that constanty won everything and was really snootty about it. They always almost got in trouble for dirty rushing or for talking about other sororities during recruitment...

weird rumor that turned out to be true and it still blows my mind

Someway, somehow, my org got branded the "lesbian sorority". Which is quite interesting, considering most (I mean 95 percent) are either engaged, lavaliered, or seriously dating a man. Of course we joke about it all the time, but it is still pretty presumptuous of people to label everyone in one house.

About the fat circling, during recruitment open houses, the third sentence out of every chapter president's mouth after entering the house was, "And NO! we won't bring frat boys in to circle your fat".

No real hazing rumors, but there were three big non-hazing-related rumors and misconceptions:

- About my local - that it was made up of women who couldn't get into a "real" (read: NPC or NPHC) sorority

- You had to be Jewish to join (the local's founders were Jewish, but the first pledge class had a non-Jewish woman, and my chapter has lots of non-Jewish sisters today)

- We were really a "little sister" org for AEPi. (AEPi was very good to us, and some of my sisters dated AEPi's, but AEPhi is definitely not a little sister org - for one thing, on the national level, we were founded first!)

We didn't get anything too crazy, except the typical fat circling rumors. I also heard that we will extend bids to anyone and even just hand our shirts out to random girls so they can wear them around campus. :rolleyes:

I dont think my school has any of these type of rumors.. I guess it's because greek life is a bit more laid back (We don't have houses, they are very strict on hazing, etc)

Hmmmm... I'll see if I can think of any ;)

ETA: we only have the ABC is the blonde southern conservatives, DEF is the wild party girls, GHI will give a bid to anyone who breathes, JKL's are all of the football guys, MNOs are the nerdy guys, PQRs are the druggies kind of stereotypes/rumors.... most of those stereotypes are based on the truth, but there are obviously a lot of people in each chapter that couldn't be farther from them

At IU
 

There may still be a rumor about one fraternity with double beds.

Oh god, what rumors AREN'T there about my sorority on campus? Although in the past couple years they have managed to die down, thank god!

Let's see.. I've heard that we all do coke, we're all anorexic, we won't accept anyone who isn't blonde (out of 100 of us, theres probably about 20 brunettes, but we dont discriminate during rush!), we stand pledges up in the middle of the mountainlair (our student center) and the CROWD can circle their fat. That last one was my favorite. I love getting to hear the crazy rumors during rush, I seriously don't know where people come up with this stuff.

During rush last year half the girls in my journalism class rushed so they all acted like my best friend during class. They would talk about the dumbest stuff that wasn't true. Some of the things they said were:

Alpha Phi won't take ANYONE who has even the slightest bit of a belly!

Oh that girl will go to one of the "pretty" sororities! (Which I am proud to say DG was one of the ones they considered a pretty sorority as was Alpha Phi, the other is a no brainer.)

That sorority makes its pledges have sex with the sweetheart!

DG hazes! (Not thrilled with that one, that girl didn't get a bid anywhere)

People do coke in West Virginia?

-Rudey
--Sheitza!

Yeah, pretty sure I know what the other "pretty" sorority is. I remembered when I rushed, I was saying something in class one day about the differences in Alpha Phi and Alpha Xi and this random pike pledge turns around and was like, "definitely go alpha xi, alpha phi turns everyone into cokeheads".. OK buddy.

I've definitely had to clear up rumors during rush about our "hazing".. some of the stuff is so ridiculous that it's almost funny.

Hahaha.. way more than anyone I ever knew back in Maryland!

Yea, I can't believe that someone would say that about DG when I was sitting there in a letter shirt. But whatever she didn't even get a bid to the "not-pretty" sororities haha.

And Rudey you wouldn't believe how many people do coke at WVU. It's sad really. That's half the reason theres always a line for the bathroom in Bent Willey's.

Here are some other rumors (all GROSSLY false) about chapters here:

*AAA- Only takes girls who can sing and dance in order to win Greek talent events.

*AB- You have to be a freshman, blonde, and a size 0 to even be considered.

*XY- Makes their new members go out and drink and even circles fat.

*CD- Same as XY only they also force you to go over to the frats in your underwear.

The silliest sorority rumor EVER:

EF- Upon receiving your bid, you must also purchase a tanning package from a nearby salon.

All these ironically came from non Greeks

:rolleyes:

Ain't that the truth! I was shocked to find out how many people here do it, even a few of my friends do. :(

Of course, my high school was featured on 20/20 for our heroin problem.. so I'm not really sure which is worse.

The thing is, I think coke has made a general comeback in the past 5 years or so. I know a lot of people who do it on a pretty regular basis on the weekends and it's not uncommon to see it around or know that it's around pretty much every time I go out. I guess the 80's are back for more than just fashion...

At my school: RUMORS

girls are "coke heads"
are dirty, fat chicks
are just smart prudes
are slutty
are all blonde alcoholics
are dykes

are coke heads
are sluts


SSOOOO SORRRYY...LIKE IT SAYS..THEY ARE RUMORS

I don't think its appropriate to name actual chapters. If you noticed, other posts in this thread did not use actual chapter names (which is why I changed them in the quoted section).

Re: At IU
 

I never heard that! I wonder which one it was.

I did hear a rumor that one fraternity made their pledges do the "elephant walk." I did know some guys in that house but I never asked them...if it was true I really didn't want to know. :eek:

I think the BANG HEAD HERE award for the day goes to you, PinkSigma3! Hold your trophy high!

That's what I was thinking, OTW! That's what I was trying to get across. Thanks for being more blunt about it :) .

havent heard any rumors, but the stereotypes are easy. we have the GPAs, the SHIMs, the SLUTs, the HOTs, the SNOBs and the FATs.

the gpa and hot are pretty true, but the rest i dont get, because they aren't really all that true. sure, a few girls here and there, but generally.. no.

I think that the schools with more chapters tend to have less defined stereotypes. I couldn't just pick out the "hot" sorority at Miami, because there are about 5 or 6 that are about equal.

Now I don't know if hollywood is lying to me or not, but wouldnt the cokehead sororities also be sluts, as that is how most pornstars rock it in the movies, not to meantion thats how orgies start...

either way send um my way

how can folks afford coke? i thought it was a bit pricey.

especially at WVU. while I realize there's some folk there who come from money, there's a lot of people that don't.

it's weird. the only drug i've ever really seen or even heard of anyone abusing at Pitt was weed

How does one abuse weed?

They could be snorting crystal meth, which is cheap. Although I think coke isn't as expensive as it used to be...while working in the psych hospital, I noticed more and more people who were on welfare/SSI or had no discernable income addicted to cocaine (that's what they were coming in for, at least). The more wealthy clients that came in were using either alcohol or crystal meth.

Interesting.

PsychTau

There are TONS of kids from Maryland, New Jersey, Virginia, and PA that have plenty of their parents money to spend.

Some rumors about pledging fraternities at GMU (some of these are true actually--but where's the fun in saying which ones)

- Initiation = Goats
- Run laps in a field with a pony keg strapped to your back
- Snort liquor
- Swim across the Mason pond
- Paddling
- Assist pledge brothers in going to the bathroom
- Hike back to school from mystery location in woods

And for the sororities...

- Sharing a vibrator (one for the entire sorority, as the rumor goes...rumors are gross)
- Circle the fat

:eek: I don't even know what to say...

The general ideas of fat circling and underwear presentation to fraternity men are always popular.

At my alma mater, however, the biggest "rumor" was one the sororities fought over -- who had their badge on the moon! Out of the five sororities, three claimed this "honor" -- as if that makes people want to run right out and join!

My school is 60% in state, 40% out. The way I mostly see it, the out of state kids come from money usually, and the in state kids don't. Of course this isn't always true, I know a lot of kids from WV who aren't poor or anything.

In my experience, it's a lot of greeks doing the coke. :( And even if they come from money, I still don't know how they can afford it.. what excuse can you give your parents for needing all that money all the time?

You guys do realize coke isn't referring to soda-pop right?

-Rudey