Name Tags
 

Since so many PNM's are concerned with standing out, I thought we could share our name tags (if your school encouraged you to make your own) and some really bad name tags to.....

Because my name is Maggie, I am from a town of Springfield and my last name is polish, I got a cut out of Maggie Simpson from "the Simpsons" and got two popsickle sticks from the dinning hall and made Maggie Simpson on Ski's....they remembered "Maggie from Springfield, last name ski".

Other Good examples:
1.a girl's last name was Ferris...she used a Ferris Wheel.
2.a girl's name was Shelby, She got a picture of a shell and a bee, and put them together.
3. one of our Heather's got some fresh heather flowers and pinned them to her, with a pretty calligraphied clip on them that said "Heather".
4. one of our Amy's made a arrow and on it as the brand of arrow she put "Aim Me".
5. One of our jen's her last name was Sheck, she used a miniture shreck doll someone got in a happy meal.

Some bad name tags that I've come across:
1. any "Hello my name is" tag. They are not creative, and not funny.
2. A PNM came through and she had a hot dog rapper as her name tag. Her name had nothing to do with hot dogs...she just said she liked them. To this day I have no idea what her name was, she was just "hot dog girl"
3. don't make a whole collage of things, lots of girls do this and noone can remember who had the butterflies, beachscene, and dogs vs. the moon, cat, and sunrise.

My school did not allow PNM's to make their own name tags. For first round, you wore a Panhel-issued standard name tag. For subsequent rounds, sororities made name tags for the PNM's they'd invited back.

We had a girl come through rush one year, who had a nickname that she greatly preferred to her given name - so she altered her Panhel name tag accordingly. We took note, and made sure that the name tags we made for her had her nickname on them. It must have worked... she joined AEPhi :) (BTW, if you do make your own name tag and you have a nickname, make sure that the name you used to register for rush appears somewhere on your name tag... you don't want sororities not inviting you back because they couldn't find your name on the list of PNM's.)

We had another girl come through rush (different year) - she had been invited to my sorority and one other for second round. As I said, each sorority gives you a name tag when you arrive; when you leave, you're supposed to remove your tag and either keep or discard it, since the next sorority you visit will give you a new tag. Anyway, this girl wore her name tag from the other sorority right through our party, next to the name tag we'd given her... as if to say "if you want me you'd better rush me hard, otherwise I'm going XYZ". :rolleyes: She wound up not being invited to pref by either sorority.

Even more tips!
 

UCSD has Panhel issued nametags but if you register late then you have to right your own name.

What normally happens is that the girl will just write her first name! I don't care how unique or cool your name is, this is NEVER a good idea!

Every name tag should include first and last name printed extremely legibly. You'd be amazed how some girls will just scribble a name down. Some write it soooo fancy that you can't read it either! Nametags should include rushee # as well.

Every calling card should include full name, rushee#, Rho Chi group#. You may want to include hometown and year in school. But those would be purely optional. I wouldn't recomend really putting anything else on the card.

There were a couple calling cards where I had to run around hunting down Rho Chis so that they could tell me who this girl could possibly be. :mad:

At my school all of the PNMs are issued your standard "Hello, my name is..." name tag. First and last names had to be written on the name tag and they had to wear one each night.

One of hte girls at UK I rushed with ahd the last name of Fisher so she made her name tags in the shape of Fish to help girls remember it. Here, we have standard name tags issued by Panhel to make it even.