what's a date night?

[aleandro]

what is it and what do you do in them? I am a pledge and our first date night is this week. Fraternities and sororties are so big on campus I guess no ne has bothered to tell me more about it, plus pledging hasn't started yet. I could ask a brother but I don't want to look stupid.

[Senusret I]

Can't you ask your Pledge Trainer? (Pledgemaster, Dean of Pledges, New Member Educator, whomever he is)

You're supposed to be able to ask him anything -- how else would you learn?

ETA: I don't know what it is either, lol, so we can find out together.

[PeppyGPhiB]

You're a pledge, but you say pledging hasn't started yet?

[Elephant Walk]

I would assume it's a night when you make your pledges take a date and go as a pledge class. We did something like that on sunday afternoons for awhile.

[Kevlar281]

At my school date night (Friday) was when all the Greeks who were in significant relationships went out on dates with their respective boyfriend/girlfriend while all the single Greeks would hang out and do their own thing. But I’m going to guess the definition of “Date Night” varies from school to school.

[MaryAmanda]

We did a date night last semester. We all went to a nice restaurant with our boyfriends (and for those without boyfriends, the sisters arranged a blind date!) as a group.

[PeppyGPhiB]

We used to do Date Dashes, which are spontaneous events. We'd get a phone call from an exec member telling us that we had two or three hours to find a date and meet at a spot on campus before we left for an evening out. I'm guessing date night is similar, just planned in advance?

[GreekHoodies]

Yeah..we had date dashes too..where our big bro would tell us to find a date in like 3 hours...usually half the dudes couldn't get dates and had to go with the friend of somebody who could get a date...then we'd do something stupid like play miniature golf or drive go-carts drunk until the place kicked us out....date dashes were awesome.....

[nate2512]

Fraternities with shortened pledgeships often have a break between bidding and pledging in to get extra work out of the pledges. In other they will recieve a bid then wait a couple weeks before going through the offical pledging in of the guys.