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Goodness! A no balloon rule!? Wash. U. would have hell to pay if that were the case. For the first round of parties, each sorority is given a color (red, blue, green, purple, yellow (gold), or pink)--randomly (each year you get a new color). That sorority then gets a huge mass of balloons of that color to have on the ceiling of their suite (sororities here don't have houses, just suites in our "Women's Building"). This is done so that on the first day, girls see each sorority equally and can think by color and not necessarily by reputation. It's also hard for some women to keep each sorority straight, so it's a good way for girls to remember the houses they went to.
Although I wasn't always happy with the color choices my sorority had when I was there (despite pink being one of our sorority colors, it just doesn't look right in our suite with some of the red accents we have), blowing up huge masses of balloons with helium (and high float) was always an interesting experience.
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