War Eagle!
xokathy, we didn't say skank then, we just came out and said, well, whore. But after teaching so many years plus having such a huge family, I tend to use my kids' and students' words!
Panhellenic divided us alphabetically into 14 groups since there were 14 sororities. We went to half the chapter rooms on each of 2 days. I felt sorry for the freshmen, especially those who knew nothing of Greek life before, because there was so little time with each group and how could they remember which was which? It was obvious, though, that many of the gorgeous and polished rushees knew exactly which sororities they would accept from the first day, they'd probably known for years. (This would be about 3/4 of the rushees.) Last year's Auburn PNMs we knew said that this has not changed and their Greek moms, who stayed near campus during recruitment, were stunned by the beauty and poise of all these girls.
Many of the chapters we visited made a huge deal over one of our group members, who was going to be the Orange Bowl Queen that year. Most of our group thought she looked about 30 with heavy, harsh makeup. Anyway, several group members were being ignored by their rushers, who just had to meet and talk with her.
I lived in an upperclass dorm and there were about 10 other upperclassmen from the dorm who were rushing. I felt much more at home with them than I did with the mostly freshman rush group I had. None of us knew that sophomores and juniors were cut heavily at AU but we were about to find out.