A Cheesy Disco Retro Recruitment!

[greekdee]

Hi All –

I’m pretty new to Greek Chat and absolutely love it! These recruitment stories are downright addictive, so I thought I would share mine.

Now, this really is a retro recruitment. I went through what was then known as RUSH back in the fall of 1977! Yes, it was the era of far-out fashions and Farrah hair…dear Heavens, someone really should have TOLD us just how hideous we looked in those super-duper high waisted pants, western wear, jumpsuits and coordinating knits. Let us not forget the feathered hair, winged bangs and super shiny, roll on, fruit flavored lip-gloss. We were stylin, girls…STYLIN’!

There were seven sororities at my university. I’ll reveal the school and chapters at the end, but for now, will name them after the music that had the dance floors packed, the strobe lights strobing and inspired us college girls to wear Danskin body suits with wrap around skirts, and to sprinkle our chests and shoulders with a sparkly poweder called Dazzle Dust…

DISCO!!!!

Here are the sororities:

The Village People (YMCA, Macho Man)
KC and the Sunshine Band (Get Down Tonight, That’s The Way I Like It)
Donna Summer (I Feel Love, Hot Stuff)
The Commodores (Brick House, Three Times a Lady)
The Bee Gees (Stayin’ Alive, Night Fever)
Heat Wave (Boogie Nights, Groove Line)
ABBA (Waterloo, Dancing Queen; okay, they really weren't classified as disco, but we sure loved dancing to their songs!)

I really hope you don’t consider this story TOO retro to be interesting.

School Starts!

I was a very young freshman. My birthday was in October, making me only 17 when I went through September rush. My school was on quarters, so we started later than those on semester systems.

It was mid-September when I moved into my dorm, and boy, has resident housing changed since then! I basically lived in a square box with two other girls. We had a bunk bed and one single – and matching lime green bedspreads. These were a great compliment to the piece of gold, shag carpet we put down on the floor.

Both of my roommates were friends from high school, but neither of them chose to participate in Rush. I headed out for Orientation by myself, but quickly fell in with the many, many girls walking through our tree-lined campus towards the student center... where we would get our first introduction to sorority life...