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Originally Posted by PM_Mama00
To the girls at UCF... dumb question but do you guys have a Panhel Advisor? If so, how do you get around guys wearing recruitment shirts? Before I got initiated, on Bid Day fraternity men used to dress in tuxedos and escort the new members across the stage when they announced their new home. (no house, use a big room for Bid Day) They had to stop it though per NPC rules and the whole men can't be involved in recruitment thing.--- sorry for the hijack, you can PM me if you want.
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Tuxedos? That's awesome! When I ran down Greek Park with my bid, we had Pikes sitting outside their house in lawn chairs in their swim trunks.... holding up placards to rate us on a scale of 1-10! Very different.
The guys are not part of Bid Day; they just stop by outside the house to visit their girlfriends and Lil/Big Sis's and friends to congratulate them and show their love. They stay outside-- most of the guys are actually wandering down the street. I seriously think they do it to collect tshirts and get into the photographs!
Yes, there is a Greek Adviser and a graduate assistant. In 2000, UCF was selected as Greek Campus of the Year by a Florida student leader trade magazine. Our campus culture promotes wearing one another's t-shirts and letters. Obviously we don't have ADPi's going around wearing KD jerseys and date function tee shirts, or ATO's decked out in Pi Kapp jerseys and rush shirts, but you do have girls wearing guy's letters and vice versa. But it wouldn't be unusual for your best friend in another sorority to sneak over and shoe-polish your back window with "ABC loves XYZ"-- we did that on a regular basis for the fraternities, too.
Like I said, this is the campus culture and it works for us. I'm sure it would be radically opposed at another campus. In this case, our campus is very Greek oriented and the Greeks have really good relationships with one another. So much so that they want to promote one another with their letters-- years ago, we had a sorority close and immediately recolonize. Every single UCF Greek was wearing "Ask Me About ABC" buttons and helping support the "new" chapter. It was amazing and every time a new sorority colonizes, you see that kind of support. I was actually a little shocked when I visited other chapters on different campuses-- some of them don't even talk to their house neighbors! Again, that's what works for that school. But that kind of support made me very proud to be a UCF Greek while I was a student.
UCFPNM: All of the fraternities have rush tshirts and all of the sororities have Bid Day tshirts. There's also an all-Panhellenic Tshirt that sorority PNMs will receive at Greek Forum-- if you go to Bid Day, wear this shirt-- you'll be given a Bid Day tshirt at the sorority! Bid Day at the house is casual-- there is a break, you change into a cute dress and then go out to dinner with your new sisters at places like DisneyQuest, Hard Rock Cafe, House of Blues and Pointe Orlando.