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Back in the day - when this wasn't considered hazing or considered a risk management issue - it wasn't unusual for a fraternity's pledge class to "borrow" a sorority's composite and bring it back to the fraternity house. Usually with the help (consent) of either the sorority's president, the sorority's social chair or the sorority's pledge trainer (new member educator). I recall one time when a sorority's House Mother helped. That was classic!
Basically, these were more or less supervised pranks. A "ransom note" with clues would be left usually for the sorority's pledge class. It was up to them to figure out which fraternity took it. The idea being that once the sorority's pledge class figured out which fraternity took the composite, the pledges would come to the fraternity's house with the "ransom" which was usually something like having to serenade the fraternity. The fraternity would then host the sorority at an informal mixer (exchange). This is why planning ahead with the sorority social chair helped. And if the pledge class was caught, then the pledges normally had to serenade the sorority. And to "make up for their mischief", they were instructed to invite the sorority over a mixer. All in all, a kind of "planned spontaneity".
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