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This business of opening your bid card in front of everyone in the world sounds absolutely barbaric to me.
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Me, too. How humiliating. And how cruel to force the disappointed girls to watch others hugging and shouting "We're ABC's!"
Many non-Greek groups on my campus (including arts ensembles, publications, etc.) have a rush-like selection process. After the final selection deliberations, they wake up their new members in the middle of the night to celebrate. This usually involves waking up the whole dorm with songs, cheers, etc., and everyone on the hall comes out in their pajamas to congratulate their neighbor. One year a pair of freshman roommates made it to the final round, but the group took one guy and not his roommate. Rather than force the roommate to listen to a celebration that wasn't for him, they called the new member and told him to meet them out of earshot. The tradition of surprising him in person and celebrating with the whole hall was a lot less important than not torturing his roommate -- who was in a tough position no matter what.