Best rush tricks

PhiGam · #1 12-04-2007, 05:13 AM

I personally hate rush week, what kind of stuff do you guys do to make it go by faster. Fraternity members only.

I point at the most unattractive girl in the room and ask the potential rushee what he thinks of my girlfriend.

Another is to ask the potential rushee if he's checked out (insert worst fraternity on campus here) because you think he would fit in there.

Stuff like that, anything to help the manflirting not last as long.

violetpretty · #2 12-04-2007, 11:49 AM

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Originally Posted by PhiGam

I personally hate rush week, what kind of stuff do you guys do to make it go by faster. Fraternity members only.

I point at the most unattractive girl in the room and ask the potential rushee what he thinks of my girlfriend.

Another is to ask the potential rushee if he's checked out (insert worst fraternity on campus here) because you think he would fit in there.

Stuff like that, anything to help the manflirting not last as long.

You might want to put this in Fraternity Recruitment instead of Recruitment Stories.

Leslie Anne · #3 12-04-2007, 01:58 PM

You might also consider sticking your head in a toilet and flushing.

There are a few other guys like you around here who feel the need to impress upon us just how "elite" they are in nearly every post they make. It's boring and pathetic.

skylark · #4 12-04-2007, 02:04 PM

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manflirting

I am mildly offended by your entire post and the assumptions behind it (using unsuspecting "unattractive" women as the means to mess with someone, trashing another group on campus by using them as your inside joke with a rushee, etc.).

However, I can't help but love the word "manflirting." It is such a great way to describe the fraternity rush process or any other time men are trying eachother out as friends. Brilliant, and I'm stealing it.

AlphaFrog · #5 12-04-2007, 02:05 PM

Unless they get into the racist/bigot stuff, I rather enjoy the Fratties trying to out-Frat eachother. You have to take it with a grain of salt.

And I really like the term "Manflirting".

FSUZeta · #6 12-05-2007, 09:14 AM

well, i was thinking how elite could his chapter be if they have even one unattractive girl hanging around?

i do love the "manflirting" phrase.

barnard1897 · #7 12-10-2007, 11:36 PM

My impression of guys like this is that they are always the ones the house had the toughest time deciding whether to pledge or not. And little do they know how close the vote probably was. It's nearly always the guys who think so highly of themselves who usually came the closest to NOT getting in.

It's a little disappointing he happens to be a FIJI, which is also my husband's fraternity. Way to NOT represent an otherwise great fraternity.

LionTamer · #8 12-11-2007, 01:35 PM

I believe those close-to-not-getting-in pledges were referred to as "House Bill Pledges" as in "we need 12 to cover our house bills, and only have 11 we like, so John was sort of our House Bill Pledge"

AlphaFrog · #9 12-11-2007, 01:39 PM

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I believe those close-to-not-getting-in pledges were referred to as "House Bill Pledges" as in "we need 12 to cover our house bills, and only have 11 we like, so John was sort of our House Bill Pledge"

There was a sorority on campus that actually referred to their pledges as the "Pretty [last letter of GLO name]'s" and the "Quota [last letter of GLO name]'s".

nittanyalum · #10 12-11-2007, 01:52 PM

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I believe those close-to-not-getting-in pledges were referred to as "House Bill Pledges" as in "we need 12 to cover our house bills, and only have 11 we like, so John was sort of our House Bill Pledge"

Wow, brutal! But

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Originally Posted by AlphaFrog

There was a sorority on campus that actually referred to their pledges as the "Pretty [last letter of GLO name]'s" and the "Quota [last letter of GLO name]'s".

Sheesh, even brutal-er! (but still kinda

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I also like the OP's rule of replies from "Fraternity members only". (I envision the little scrawled on hunk of wood the boys in the neighborhood would tack to their "fort" of the week...) I assume he meant males-only, forgetting that many women's GLOs are also fraternities.

AlphaFrog · #11 12-11-2007, 01:57 PM

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I also like the OP's rule of replies from "Fraternity members only". (I envision the little scrawled on hunk of wood the boys in the neighborhood would tack to their "fort" of the week...) I assume he meant males-only, forgetting that many women's GLOs are also fraternities.

Yeah, and many of us here on GC are like naughty teenagers anyway, if you tell us NOT to do something, we're probably going to do it. On purpose.

SthrnZeta · #12 12-11-2007, 03:57 PM

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Originally Posted by barnard1897

My impression of guys like this is that they are always the ones the house had the toughest time deciding whether to pledge or not. And little do they know how close the vote probably was. It's nearly always the guys who think so highly of themselves who usually came the closest to NOT getting in.

It's a little disappointing he happens to be a FIJI, which is also my husband's fraternity. Way to NOT represent an otherwise great fraternity.

Yeah, but don't call the OP a FIJI cuz he thinks it sounds goofy

AlphaFrog · #13 12-11-2007, 04:04 PM

I remember one of the advisors here on GC telling a story about hand-bidmatching, and then watching the girls at the very bottom of the bidlist who barely squeeked on to the pledgeroll of the "elite" (in their eyes) sorority look down at those who got into less "elite" groups and thinking "If only you knew how close you were to NOT getting in your group." I want to say it was carnation who posted that, but I can't remember for sure.

SthrnZeta · #14 12-11-2007, 04:06 PM

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I remember one of the advisors here on GC telling a story about hand-bidmatching, and then watching the girls at the very bottom of the bidlist who barely squeeked on to the pledgeroll of the "elite" (in their eyes) sorority look down at those who got into less "elite" groups and thinking "If only you knew how close you were to NOT getting in your group." I want to say it was carnation who posted that, but I can't remember for sure.

That's why I'm glad as a Rho Gamma, we didn't partake in that - all done by computer. It was bad enough having to call girls who didn't get bids.

chitownxo · #15 12-11-2007, 06:20 PM

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There was a sorority on campus that actually referred to their pledges as the "Pretty [last letter of GLO name]'s" and the "Quota [last letter of GLO name]'s".

Then they'd wonder why their retention rates were horrid. My personal favorite was the sorority who would tell one or two pnms that they were getting a bid because they needed bigger girls for Greek Week tugs. Gotta love WIU.