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Fraternity rush is much more combative than sorority rush. We used to go head to head with you Lambda Chis and Theta Chis (above). Everybody did real well in rush, but it was a fight. One Lambda Chi brother transferred in and no one on campus knew him, so the Lambda Chis sent him through rush as a "rushee". He pretended to be a freshman and reported back on how all the rest of us were doing and what the rushees were thinking about which fraternities. Smart trick. We found a girlfriend for the Lambda Chi rush chairman one year right before rush started. Her job was to distract him as much as possible and keep him from concentrating on rush. They ended up getting married later so it worked out well for them even if rush didn't go so well for Lambda Chi that fall. The Theta Chis were notorious for sending select Little Sisters around to other fraternities' rush parties to seek out guys T-Chi was rushing and keep an eye on them, even try to steer them back to the Theta Chi party. The Sigma Chis actually issued a challenge to us one year before rush started, claiming that they would beat us. We parked our fire truck in a vacant lot across from their house and set up a kind of satellite rush operation, snagging rushees and transporting them back to our house on the truck. Everyone always got good classes: 40-50 pledges. The idea of winning or losing was very energizing; men respond to competition.
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