This used to be "legal" and tradition for all Greeks in ISU, but couple years ago some houses got trouble by doing it, so, yeah ...
The tradition goes, that a house come to other houses and "borrow" the big composite ... you know, the ones that usually hang by the fireplace ... and keep it for couple days/weeks .. then call the house, and ask them to serenade the borrower house ... then, they sign their initials behind the composite and return it.
(before the story goes, I use names - no offense or anything!)
So, if we see our old composites, the back of them usually full of names, dates, events and houses ... kindda neat, and historical.
Greek Week 1999, we tried to "borrow" Thetas' and they were so anal about it, and oh well, it ended up nasty. They threatened to call cops and stuff.
Yup. After the homecoming last year, some AChiOs stole our composite .. and we never had to serenade them, because they returned it back to us, with all these comments and additional pictures all around our pictures. Some of the comments were really funny, and we worked with Aggers and stole their composite. Oh, well, so AChiO broke into Aggers house and borrowed their composite ... it would never end, and I never imagine how hard it have to be to carry the huge composite back to other place until this year.
We won Greek Week 2001 this year, and we were pairing up with Pi Phis and Delta Sigs. I talked with some of the Delta Sigs about our possibility of us borrowing Pi Phis composite, and the dude said it was impossible as he had tried it before ... so I said, what the heck .. I would give it a try.
So that night, we went to Pi Phis house, and finally could break in .. and yeah, I had hard time to take it down, and walked back to our house with that huge composite ... I am wondering now how we managed that ... anyway, so we signed their composite, and returned it the day after. I brought it back, and wearing this expression like, I found this on the street and might belong to you guys ... seemed that their composite just walked away from their house and ended up in random street or something! Of course, obviously they knew me, and they thought it was neat, so all our sweat worth every drop!
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