Academic Departments' Rush!

[carnation]

The thread about the Sigma Pi cheer reminded me of this...


When I was an undergrad, someone wrote a tongue-in-cheek article for the Arkansas paper that said that since most freshmen come to school not knowing what to major in, the departments should have rush. He said, "Picture this!"

The professors in the English Department could stand out in front of their classroom building going, 'Hey hey hey hey!' as the freshmen enter. Then they could break into the departmental cheer--

'Drink beer! Drink beer! Drink beer, gadzooks, drink beer!
I won't drink beer with any old man who won't drink beer with a medieval lit man!
Go To hell! Oddsbodkins!'

Then you would have dirty rush, where professors might say, "No, you don't want to pledge entomology, they're a bunch of wimps."

I laughed until I was sick when I read that and people on campus had a good time all year writing in more ideas about what "Departmental Rush" would be like! Do any of you have any ideas about what a great rush for each department would be like?

[lifesaver]

hahahha lol.


GLAD to see you back up and on your feet. I know you dont feel you can slow down, but if you dont, your body will for you, then where will you be? WHo will take care of everyone then? Like that commercial they used to run about remembering to take your high blood pressure medicine. "too busy to take your blood pressure medicine? You'll have plenty of time to think about it after you have a stroke."


As to the topic...

I see Political science rush as dirty, very Machivellian actually...
make real good friends withthe other depts. just to find out their plans, then make them their own. lol. Talk smack about how the Accounting majors never get laid, the engineering majors are trying to build a date, since they cant get one... And all the fun times you'd have in the dept.. like "those late night debates on the Fedreralist papers... or those silly NMs who dont know the difference between contemporary liberalism, and classical conservatism," and, "look at that dork, he doesnt know about Gamson's Framing Analysis! Who hasnt heard of Gamson's Framing Analysis?" lol

[DeltaBetaBaby]

I know on my campus, the General Engineering department would have a pretty easy time rushing. Engineers have their own library, their own quad, and their own graduation. The GE department has a big old lounge with a dart board, a foosball table, leather couches, a big screen TV, and a small kitchen. Basically, the University spends all their money on us.

[carnation]

Lemme think...the Spanish Department, where I am now, would really play up a fiesta theme with a lot of singing, dancing, and spicy food.

The horticulture department, where I got 3 degrees, would've had the prettiest rush room because we would've decorated it heavily with our homegrown flowers. And if we were rushing at the U of Hawaii, I just know we would've had huge bowls of our departmentally grown macadamia nuts for the rushees!

Without question, our dirty rush would've involved running down the guys in the Animal Science Department.

[DeltaBetaBaby]

The psych department wouldn't ask anyone to join, sort of a reverse-psychology approach.

[FuzzieAlum]

At my school, I can see the electrical engineers saying, "Don't join the systems department - they're Sys E's."

The philosophy department wouldn't participate because it would be beneath them, and the English profs would throw a mad crazy party.

You probably couldn't get the computer science profs to leave their offices long enough to hold rush, but that would be OK because the kind of students that would want to join wouldn't know what to do at a party anyway.

[DeltaBetaBaby]

Of course, all of us General Engineers would wear our awesome shirts that say

You can't spell geek without GE.

[AOIIBrandi]

The Business school would make everyone take a Meyers-Briggs personality type indicator test, and then take everyone that had the right personality out for dinner on the expense account.

You probably couldn't get the computer science profs to leave their offices long enough to hold rush, but that would be OK because the kind of students that would want to join wouldn't know what to do at a party anyway.

The Computer Science Department wouldn't have to leave their offices because they would have set up a website with chat and would advertise on every screen saver in the school.