bid day traditions
 

I'm so excited for fall recruitment next semester and for my first bid day on the other side! I can't wait. :) I was wondering if anyone's chapters had any unique bid day traditions to make it even more fun! One of my friends pledged a sorority at the same time that I did, and she said that her chapter's tradition is for all of the new members to "ride the pony" on bid day. There is no actual pony. A weird tradition if you ask me, but they all enjoy it. Does anyone else have any traditions or things that are unique to their chapter?

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Ride the pony? what??

All of the actives stand in a circle and chant, one by one, the new members go in the middle of the circle and pretend to ride the pony. I forget exactly how it goes but it's something like "come on Elphaba, ride that pony, show them how we ride that pony, front to front, my baby, back to back my baby, side to side my baby" and there are a couple more things, but I forget those.

Yes, please explain what this means, I have a vision of 50 women in sundresses running around "riding" those stick horses.

My friend doesn't have any pictures posted on facebook of her doing it, but here is a picture of the same thing that I found on webshots (not the same chapter):
http://good-times.webshots.com/photo...60842895iswwra

That sounds humiliating and embarassing. Not exactly how you would want your new members to feel.

I'd be embarrassed if it was just me because I'm shy, but if it was a lot of girls doing it, I don't think it would be a big deal. Besides, I don't think it's mandatory for anyone.

I don't know if my chapter still does it, but we used to go up to the Alamance Fountain (a big giant fountain in the middle of campus) to take pictures and had the annual "dunking of the rush chair" -- basically the rush chair gets picked up and thrown in the fountain by the other actives. Eventually, most of our exec board gets thrown in as well... all in front of our new members.

Happy Freezing Bid Day!!! Luckily, the year I was rush chair, my roomate packed a second set of clothes for me!!!!

I've seen that before, but not since high school! Mostly with the girls' sports teams before a game.... something like this where everyone is standing in a circle, clapping, and bopping up and down:

Group: Jump out, jump in and introduce yourself!
Someone steps into the circle: My name is Amy!
Group: Yeah!
Person: I like to cheer/dance/softball/etc.
Group: Yeah!
Person: Now meet my girl, Betty!
Group: Betty! Jump out, jump in and introduce yourself!

And so on. :)

At my school, Bid Day starts with a theme at each sorority that lends itself to T-shirts and decorations. There are hand-held signs (glued to paint sticks) in the shape of the theme with each PNM's name on it. The sorority waits in a block for their PNMs waving their signs. The PNM finds her sign and that's her Bid Day Buddy. There are activities on the lawn outside the house ranging from professional photos to Bounce Houses, music, etc. Inside, there's food. It's just fun and chaotic. Each pledge class takes a professional photo as well as the entire chapter. And each class takes a silly group shot as well as a silly all-chapter shot.

One year, my alpha class decided we'd wear togas for our silly shot. Of course, we decided this 3 minutes before the photo :) Another alpha class tied their t-shirts so their tummies were exposed and the front row wrote out "I Love ADPi" in marker on their tummies. The rest drew lions, diamonds and violets. :)

youre joking... thats sounds really embarassing.

and if i was some frat across the street hearing a bunch of girls singing "show them how we ride that pony" man... i'd REALLY wanna do a mixer with yall that semester!

Let's give her some alternatives, then! We didn't really have any, so I'm no help. All I really remember from my bid day is eating hot dogs that tasted like lighter fluid and getting a new car (from my parents) HEY - that would be a great bid day tradition!:rolleyes:

We always did the formal bid day pics as well as the goofy bid day pics.

Basically, before the girls run down the hill to the greek courts all the sororities are outside their houses banging on pots and pans, cheering and yelling. Then when the new members arrive with the rho chis there is tackling and more yelling an more banging on pots and pans like lunatics. While all this is going on, the fraternities usually sit on their porches and watch and occasionally yell things.

Eventually its just a huge mix of females running around huging and what not. Also, after the girls usually get down to the courts, lots of the actives will go visit their friends in other chapters to celebrate bid day. The courts usually quiet down for a little bit and the pnms go do their own chapter stuff. Later that night there is usually huge parties in apartment complexes to celebrate bid day and greek life in general. Everyone mixes!!! Its usually a great night.

That sounds like a great bid day tradition!

Car for bid day
 

Just don't let my daughter see this thread . . .

Well we always had our bid day pictures taken before going to a pool party or something like that. But the tradition of the pictures was 1 of the whole sorority, then two of each year. See, we always took the pictures near one of the many fountains on SLU's campus. So there was much dunking and such and the first picture was us cute and dry and the second was in the fountain splashing water all over each other.

I'm sorry, "Ride that pony" sounds hot to def.

You can do the Ginuwine Pony:
http://musicbox.sonybmg.com/files/im...s/13406466.jpg

http://singingfool.com/photos/410/017246_7.jpg




Or you could do the Fresh Prince/Carlton sort of alternative:

http://www.my-arcade.com/arcade/imag...prince_duo.jpg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUYQVXPv27k

doo, do do do, doo doo

jump on it, get on it, jump on it!

LMAO

I'm sure this pony cheer thing is just fun and silly, and is not the crude or sexual thing some of you perverts are thinking. :D You dirty minds need some Orbitz gum.

And you need to get travelling out of your head! That's Orbit gum :P

I've seen some more pictures. Definitely not dirty, just weird.

Total highjack, but didn't the girl from those commercials play Bobbi on the Gilmore Girls?

We never did anything like this, but I think it could be fun, inside-the-group-silliness worthy, just not well suited to how we did bid day on my campus.

I just wanted to pipe up because everyone so far was all like "oh, that's embarrassing and humiliating" and "I might re-think my bid."

I wouldn't have wanted to do that on bid day at the end of rush because at that point I just wanted some comfort and relaxation, but it sounds like it be a funny thing to do at a sisterhood retreat or something.

My experience with bid day is that it had a lot more of a recruitment-best-behavior-vibe more than a wacky-be-silly together vibe. I think pictures, meeting rose sisters, maybe a cook out, and then something low key. For me a pool party would not have been low key because I've never been big on appearing in public in a bathing suit.

"ride the pony" is great! haha, i always play it with my little girls when i'm a camp counselor!

on the same lines, we always dance to "ice cream and cake" by the buckwheat boyz -- it's obnoxious and annoying, but we have a coreographed dance to it that is kinda our "thing" that we always do to pump ourselves up, and we have to teach it to our new girls!

we have in the past always rented out a roller skating rink (ice cream and cake on roller skates isn't easy, though...), but this year we rented out a bowling alley! wahoo!

and at Mizzou there are 8 (or 5, or 10 -- depending on who you talk to) "traditions" that you are supposed to do before you graduate, one of which is jumping in the fountain in the middle of campus, and most girls do that -- it's so much fun because it's usually blazing hot outside and the fountain isn't that big, so with 150+ girls jumping it gets crowded!

Bobbi?

This is older, but we did lots of pictures (the New Member class, the New Member/Violet Sister duo, any New Members who were a "group", etc, etc), then the brothers of Phi Delta Theta came over to do "Kiss and Carnation". They had a carnation for each New Member, and would present it and a (chaste) kiss to each one - a very pretty tradition. We then had an All-Greek Mixer - a very BAD idea for Bid Night!

She worked with Logan in Season 6.

I understand the nightmare you got into with the weeping members that one year, but the all Greek event just seems like such a good idea. If not bid day, certainly a big event soon after bid day or something.

I just know that at my campus there was a lot of rhetoric during recruitment about "it's great to be Greek, Panhellenic, blah, blah, blah," but when it actually came down to it, I don't think we were ever together until Greek Week, if then. Sure you had socials and events at homecoming, but unless I'm misremembering, very little was all-Greek, ever.

I don't think it's that big of a deal. We did little dances and cheers during our new member time. I'm a shy person and I can't say I was jumping up and down in excitement but never once thought to myself, "Omgosh, I should have joined XYZ instead".

They're just having fun.

Yeah I need to catch up like woah. I have no clue who Bobbi is. I kinda tailed off watching when Rory went off the rails because it ticked me off so much.

IMO, doing something during bid day that would cause a NM to feel out of place or embarrassed would make me think twice....but that's me

The ride the pony thing makes me picture my high school chearleading squad getting pumped for games. I'd watch them and think wuh? But they seemed to enjoy themselves and it did look like fun.

That link to the pictures is at Longwood in case anyone is still wondering about Longwood Jumpers!

I don't think GG Bobbi is the Orbit chick. I'm not sure but I don't think so.
'K I'm wrong! I checked IMDB. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0104376/ She is the Orbit chick!

OMG! I know this song and we did it, too!!! It was nothing like Ginuwine or anything sexual. It is purely in good fun, and is very innocent. It's just being silly and dancing. On my campus, it's done like a cheer with clapping and the sisters stop in front of one of their friends or their "rush crush" and just dance--the other person doesn't have to dance and it's generally just a good time had by all. The Chi Os also do the same thing. I promise it's not hazing! It's just a celebration sort of dance!!! :p

Now why is that? Granted I've got my late 1970's post rush mind set going on. But the All-Greek mixers that I remember were fun and positive. A celebration of being Greek as it were.

The reason I ask is that NPC rush (as it was called then) ended during the middle of IFC rush. Most of the pledge classes - after they did their bid day stuff - would make the rounds at some of the fraternity rush parties to "introduce" themselves. I personally loved meeting all the new sorority members.

"Ride that pony" is an excellent way to get to know names. We did that at my new member retreat and it was amazing. If you didn't know a name before they were called in the center to dance then you certainly knew it by the time they came out! It's super fun and hilarious and I think it'd be an awesome bid day tradition, but ONLY if you have 40 or less people present. After that it'd just take 100 million years to complete.

come on baby, ride that pony....


the sad thing is when girls in jr. high or the beginnings of high school have to make it sexual. we're talking about riding a pony. not grinding. i personally love ride the pony. and sally walker -- anyone played that? "little sally walker, walkin' down the street...she didn't know what to do so she stopped in front of me! she said hey _____ do your thing, do your thing, SWITCH! hey girl do your thing, do your thing switch!"

make them chug pickel juice


just kidding