We kick them the **** out.

LOLOL.. they are called PERPS!

Is there a possibility he was from another campus??

Shame on you for thinking people leave their campus. :eek:

Isn't that why ya'll have your secret handshakes and all that??

Girls have databases (you perp and we WILL FIND OUT)....guys have handshakes.

Well, there are threads on GC about perps so you should be able to find one via the search function.

You don't know either way if he's a perp. So that's that.

We also have databases.

Handshakes aren't that secretive....at all.

I know, but it seems like when someone is in question here on GC, the girls stories always include something like "she wasn't in our database" and the guys stories seem to include "he didn't know our handshake".

Yeah, unfortunately not.

I know SAE's, and ours, and others.

Oh well.

Not only that, but the *same* handshake varies from campus to campus. I once witnessed an out and out fight between two guys, both of whom were in the same fraternity at two different schools. Each thought the other was perpping because the grip was off. It was kinda amusing, to be honest. One guy said (paraphrasing), "If that's how you learned the grip, then I'd hate to think what you think the letters stand for." Guy two, "Oh, I know what the letters stand for. You're the one who doesn't know the grip." Guy one, "Oh yeah? Then what does XYZ mean?" Guy two, "You're wack if you think Immagonna tell you what XYZ means. You tell me." One, "Hell no. You tell me." It went on and on and on. They eventually got into it pretty good, and were asked to leave the party. I still don't know if it was ever resolved. All the girls there were like :rolleyes:.

How would we verify the handshake via GC?

I've never seen what you're referring to.

She means when someone tells a story about it on GC.

Exactly. As in, the story SidneyK just posted.

DANCE MARATHON!

TEACH FOR AMERICA!

Don't forget about the CIRCUS MONKEY!

Sorry, I just had to. We can't have a fake Greek thread without mentioning our Queen Perps.

Well, our handshake has to be learned, but as an Alum, time can dim the memory! To enter certain Events, one better know it. All the same, not by Chapter!

There is a thing that we have, it is called a card showing membership. If there is still adoubt, then ask for another ID with that same name!

When I was in grad school at University of Memphis, I made friends with this guy. Great personality, very likable. After a few months, I began catching him in lies about things (stories about his undergrad days, where he had lived before, his relationships with girlfriends). I put some distance between us, but was still friendly. He was convinced that we were best friends. One thing I didn't realize was how closely he listened to my fraternity stories.

One day I was leaving campus and passed by the off campus bookstore/Greek store. I saw Philip coming out of the store wearing a Sigma Chi cap. I pulled up next and asked what was up with the cap. He told me that he had bought it for me and was wearing it to 'get some wear and tear into it' before he gave it to me. I was suspicious, but didn't confront him about it. He gave me the cap. Couple of weeks later, I go over to his apartment. Walking through the apartment, I see a Sigma Chi shirt over a chair. Again, what's going on? "Oh, I saw that and thought you might like it." But, I could tell that the shirt had obviously been worn. Okay. A couple of weeks later, I see a truck driving near campus. Sigma Chi sticker in the back window. Guess who? I caught up with him later and, very politely but firmly, informed him that under no circumstances was he to have that sticker in his window. I let him know that I understood and wished he could have been a Sig, but he was not. He scraped it out and I never heard another thing about it.

I graduate and move to Dallas. About six months later, I am talking with a friend from Memphis on the phone (a Phi Psi). Robert says: "Hey, I met a fraternity brother of yours. Philip." WTH????? I ask Robert for more information and got even a bigger shock. Philip was basically giving people my background story as his. Telling people he was a Sigma Chi. And even telling Robert a couple of funny stories that happened to "him" that really happened to me. I don't know what happened to him since. He may still be running around Memphis telling people he is a Sigma Chi and giving them my life story as his.

Baylor's campus funny paper listed perping at a big fraternity rush event as an easy way to get free cigarettes and drinks.

Still not cool, though.

I knew some guys that pretended to be freshman rushees at a nearby campus and just took advantage of the free beer. They got bid cards but didn't sign them. LOL

This is sometimes true with sororities too! I transferred schools and met up with the chapter on my new campus. One of my sisters from the school I transferred from called me up and said, "We learned the wrong handshake!" I guess our president went to national convention and got a surprise when giving the handshake :eek:. The handshake we learned was very similar to the true handshake, but it was off a bit. I gave a disclaimer at my first formal chapter at my new school. Luckily for me, they thought it was funny :p.

Again, I've never seen this. I have no idea what she's talking about. I think I've read a lot of things on GC, but can't seem to recall someone talking about someone who didn't know the handshake.

Example from this thread.

ETA: Thread about handshakes.

We had a girl in my class that started as a new member but quit about two weeks into it. She then continued to wear all of our stuff througout the rest of her college days... which is funny because she never bought any of it and when our class threw in to make t-shirts the first time she "forgot" her money and checkbook - so she didn't even own it in part.

If I do remember correctly, our new member coordinator had to physically remove our new member handbook from her grip.

I heard about every couple months or so that she had been at such and such a party telling people that she was an Alpha Gam. It was quite a challenge to remind everyone that no, she was almost an Alpha Gam.

Just when I thought I had heard it all. :rolleyes:

Thankfully I've never witnessed a situation like those mentioned, unless you count the rush thread fiasco courtesy of maxcheerz (I'm pretty sure that was the user name). :rolleyes:

Yep, that was her. I recall smelling something foul to begin with -- it was too good to be true!

GC's full of detectives, you know.

exactly!!!

This is a giant WTF. Why quit and then pretend you are a member? That makes no sense. She had her chance and gave it up voluntarily. This blows my mind.

Maybe they just wished they were and are not?:(

I just searched for the thread and couldn't find it. Did it get deleted or moved?

And low-down dirty triflin' hoes. LOW.DOWN.DIRTY.TRIFLIN'.HOES.

I have my triflin' moments, but I'll never sink down pretending to be in another sorority. That, and I can't fight. :o

But we USE ours. Take the girl who says she is a Kappa on ebay who bids and buys all their badges and allegedly she is NOT even a Kappa. They've checked their database. I guess that would make her a PERP.

You should see our convention, when guys from 10-12 different chapters are trying to sing the fraternity song(in Greek) too funny!!

You missed the V's, dear. They had to be the worst perps of all time (right Sandy?).

Don't forget the one who said she was an AXiD at IU.

I'm brand new to GC so please excuse any dumb mistakes for now. About 10 years ago my sister and I inhereited some beautiful antique jewelry from my aunt including a gold pin with two hands holding a heart. It had an inscription that read something like "faithful sisters" was about the size of quarter and was dated 1885. The first and only time I wore it, my dear friend Joyce, a very devoted Phi Mu, just about had a fit. When she realized I had no sorority affliation and had no idea that I was wearing a sorority pin, she kindly but firmly told me I could never wear, what she termed "My Philomathean Badge" again. She told me it was wonderful, very rare and would be a treasure to the Phi Mu Fraternity. My beautiful sister died several years ago. It was my pleasure to donate the badge to the Phi Mu museum in her honor. I feel this was the right thing to do. Geez.....I really miss my sister!

Wow! That's a great story.

I'm sure losing your sister has been hard. I can only imagine...

Having seen one in person (which looks like a honkin' barrette not a small sorority badge) and knowing what they pull on ebay, you might have negotiated for a wee bit of a donation to a foundation in your sister's honor. Since you didn't and assuming you have the need for a tax write off, you may want to sit down for this. The badge is priceless but worth $3,000+ on the open market which is what close to what Phi Mu paid for another of those some years back from a fraternity pin collector. You may want to mention this to your accountant and hopefully you got a receipt from Phi Mu.

That is a wonderful tribute to your sister.

Oh my goodness!! I had no idea!:eek: I would never have guessed the value. I received lovely letters of appreciation from both the National President and Historian. I'm actually glad it is safe and sound in it's new home in the Phi Mu museum. It was the strangest thing! Every now and then the badge would disappear, sometimes for weeks at a time, then show again in the most random places.

I hope that if I'm ever in the Macon area I would be welcomed to the museum and could see the badge on display.