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It's definitely something that varies from campus to campus. My school was very big into serenading. We serenaded before events/formals. We serenaded to pair up for campus events like Homecoming, Greek Week, Veishea, and Varieties. We would return serenade if fraternities serenaded us for an event, and occasionally fraternities would serenade the sororities for their initiation or founders day or some other random occasion.
For us, the entire chapter serenaded. There were probably 8-10 times per year that we either serenaded a fraternity or were serenaded.
Serenades for big campus events were an involved process. It entailed coming up with a short skit and rewriting words to popular songs. We probably practiced a few weeks beforehand. As far as regular serenades went, we had 4-5 songs that we all knew and sang regularly that were our "serenade" songs. Some of these were serious and some were fun.
Man, I loved serenading! A lot of girls complained, but it was such a big tradition, when it came down to it, most of them had fun.
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It's gonna be a hootenanny.
Or maybe a jamboree.
Or possibly even a shindig or lollapalooza.
Perhaps it'll be a hootshinpaloozaree. I don't know.
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