Courting, in the past, has involved...
Boys sending roses and such for holidays/special events. Our current Greek Week partners (Sig Ep!) gave blood for Kappa in our Homecoming blood drive to help us earn more points. We've been sober drivers for houses we're interested in being paired with, as well as brought them breakfast. Signs are made, windows are decorated, banners are hung all to express interest in another house. You go to the other organization's house or events to get to know the members better. We also serenade the house we want... BIG productions that involve renting lights/limos/etc.
That help a little bit?!
Also, women usually court the men for Greek Week, and the men court the women for Homecoming... thought I'd throw that in there.
And (one more thing... I think someone mentioned it, I don't know, this thread got real long real fast!) we usually wait four years before we pair up with a house again. (Greek Life I believe JUST made it a rule this year, but most of the houses have done it on their own in the past...) For example, when our current seniors were freshmen, they did Homecoming with the men of Delta Upsilon (who won this year!) making us eligible to participate in Homecoming with them again this fall. That way, two houses don't constantly pair up with each other... everyone gets a chance!!
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I didn't go to Newberry -- I went to Western Carolina.
Sheesh, that sounds like too much trouble. For Homecoming, our pairs were drawn out of a hat, no more than about a month beforehand. At one point, we had twice as many fraternities (6 to 13), so we all got paired w/ two, and one group was paired w/ three. Of course, Homecoming wasn't really a big deal (Greek Week was). The only thing we did w/ our pair was build and ride on the float (as I mentioned above).
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I guess part of the reason there is so much competition is because of how big the events we have are... the whole concept of Homecoming was founded at Mizzou so it's a HUGE event for us. We find out our Homecoming pairings in April or May and Homecoming is usually that October... and we start working on it in August... SUCH a big deal and SO stressful, but fun!!
