Just for a little contrast I go to a school with very small greek system.... (three NPC sororities) no houses... total is 45 members.... until recently no chpater had reached that in about 10 years or so....our rush budget is 500 dollars and rush is held about the third week of school... (which makes it SUPER stressful because you're JUST getting settled into classes and have all this rush stuff to worry about. We don't have any specific rules about what we can and can not wear... we do have the strict silence time and no bid promising... as all Panhellenics...we did have a rule about having only 10 balloons at our open house night... but that's only becuase we had it in a room that was fairly small and having every chapter having sooo many balloons would be waaaayyy too much... but other than that no balloon rule... (as a matter of fact this fall at bid day we had HUGE balloons that spelled out Phi Sig on our table with the ladies' bid day bags when they came out to meet us on the quad. And our fine for late Pref/bid lists only incur a 20 dollar fine for 15 minutes believe.
and MATCHING PREF DRESSES BY A SEAMSTRESS ??? WOW that is like TOTAL wishful thinking to me... Kinda like when people here post pics of their homes and I just drool in jealously == sigh == to have a more "traditional" greek experience... (not that mine wasn't WONDERFUL) just SUPER cool to see the gorgeous homes and hear about football games and "greek row" and rush that people WANT to come to.. (it's like pulling teeth to get people to come to rush at my school) and not having to deal with trying to get rooms on campus for our events ... GEEZ what a nightmare that is.... NE WAY .... interesting to see what is at other schools... kinda makes me go
to hear about other schools...