Wow, talk about different worlds!!! Mr. KillarneyRose and I went down to Vanderbilt University this weekend to watch them play Navy and it happened to be homecoming. It was so different than anything I was used to!
We had to walk past the greek housing to get to the stadium and, although the sorority houses were silent, there were parties going on the lawns of all the fraternity houses. When I say parties, I don't mean the "tap a keg at the fraternity house" parties we had at Pitt. We're talking a full bar with bartender in a shirt and bowtie, brothers in either nice polo shirts or shirts and ties, young women in Lilys, and they were all drinking our of GLASS GLASSES! All through college I can't recall ever having been to a fraternity party and drinking out of a glass glass
Bless my GDI husband; we were walking past, I think, the PKA house and several older gentlemen and their wives were at the party partaking of the liquid refreshment. So he looked at them, turned to me and asked, "So if you're an old greek, you can come back and drink for free?" I patiently tried to explain to him the concept of a fraternity being a lifelong commitment and those men had come back to visit with their brothers, but his attention was suddenly diverted by a group of jaw-droppingly gorgeous young ladies walking past us toward the stadium. I found out when I read the football program that they were..
"Gold Stars". According to the program, these women are "...enthusiastic supporters of the athletic program...that serves as a liaison between visiting prospects and their families and the coaching staff. Another role is to introduce prospective student-athletes and their families to the tremendous resources the university has to offer." I actually thought that was a pretty interesting concept and I wondered if a lot of schools have a program like that?
Ok, so once we got to the stadium my one and only thought was, "I am SO underdressed in my jeans and blouse!" Most of the female alumnae were decked out in skirts and blazers and practically every female undergraduate had on a dress or skirt and top and all were wearing high heels. They all looked beautiful; they really did. In fact, at one point leaned over to me and said, "do you think they hide the (less attractive women) during homecoming weekend?"
I enjoyed seeing something that was so different than my own college experience; and I have to admit that putting on a dress and heels to go to a football game then stopping by a fraternity for a drink in a glass glass seems pretty cool to me
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