Longwood U. sororities
 

I've seen many photos of the sorority women at Longwood University wearing jumpers-the tri sigs in purple jumpers, the ASAs in red. Anyone know what the story is behind these? I tried looking it up on the Longwood website but I think their server is down at the moment.
It seems like a really weird tradition so I was wondering what I've missed concerning it.

Longwood Glossary
But yeah that's all I found except for a mention of a campus event where they'd talk about "Jumper Day" and its origins. Hopefully someone else can enlighten us.

Amazing no one seems to realize that things were different in the days before all of the new Posters were ever on this Site or many others!;) DAR!:eek:

We were not born yesterday were we?;)

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I googled "Jumper Day" Longwood and found this....
http://good-times.webshots.com/photo...ost=good-times


Um.....wow? Is that what you were talking about? They look like teachers.

The new members make their own jumpers and then wear them for a week. I also think it's hideous but its a long held tradition and they're not giving it up!

*call me crazy* I'd wear it, no it's not super chic, but at least it's modest and something traditional and something they do panhellenic-wide. So while it's quirky, I appreciate the spirit of the idea.

Ok so I know an alumna of our Alpha chapter at Longwood. She said it's a big tradition there and all of the sororities there wear them for "walk" which is their name for bid day. She said she thinks that the tradition got started because the school used to be a teachers' college.

Well that makes sense! And while I think it "looks" weird, I do think it's a cool tradition.

Hmmm. I think this alludes to what Tom was saying. It doesn't look weird to me, it looks familiar and brings back memories.

That would be it, yes. I've only seen the photos of the ASAs and tri sigs.

That is a cool tradition. What is it about being a teacher that practically requires you to wear a jumper though? (To all non-jumper wearing teachers don't kill me it's just what I remember growing up)

Teachers wearing jumpers
 

I taught at a private school where the kids had uniforms. I joked that teachers needed uniforms - we could have service bars, and medals for surviving difficult students (or parents!) To answer your question - I ended up wearing jumpers because any nice suits or dresses I wore would get ink on them, caught on a desk, torn, etc. Teachers don't have the salaries to wear designer clothes, or replace outfits all the time.
Jumpers are sturdy workhorses - especially if, like me, female teachers had to wear dresses (they still do - I quit only 7 years ago).

I've seen a picture from 2005 of the ASTs at Longwood in their green jumpers, but I don't know if they still wear them or not!