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mom america · #1 07-12-2010, 01:58 PM

My daughter has begun rush week (as of last night at 2a.m.!! lol) I am looking for info on DBS in Murfreesboro TN. Any help you can give me would be totally appreciated!!

Thanks to all

Drolefille · #2 07-12-2010, 02:00 PM

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Originally Posted by mom america

My daughter has begun rush week (as of last night at 2a.m.!! lol) I am looking for info on DBS in Murfreesboro TN. Any help you can give me would be totally appreciated!!

Thanks to all

Wait. What?

knight_shadow · #3 07-12-2010, 02:01 PM

What is DBS?

And how is rush starting in July?

FSUZeta · #4 07-12-2010, 02:01 PM

what sort of organization is she "rushing"? national panhellenic sororities do not hold recruitment in the summer, nor do they start at 2 a.m.

Drolefille · #5 07-12-2010, 02:03 PM

DBS is mrusfosoboro TN is apparently satellite service.

MTSU doesn't start rush yet and the NPHC info sessions aren't until september. http://www.mtsu.edu/greeks/

I call stealth spam incoming.

knight_shadow · #6 07-12-2010, 02:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Drolefille

DBS is mrusfosoboro TN is apparently satellite service.

MTSU doesn't start rush yet and the NPHC info sessions aren't until september. http://www.mtsu.edu/greeks/

I call stealth spam incoming.

Maybe she REALLY wants to spy on her daughter? Heli-mom x 422 (or sati-mom).

Xidelt · #7 07-12-2010, 03:39 PM

Delta beta sigma is a high school sorority with a few chapters in the southeast. Could this be what mom is referring to?

ree-Xi · #8 07-12-2010, 04:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Xidelt

Delta beta sigma is a high school sorority with a few chapters in the southeast. Could this be what mom is referring to?

Yep.

"Delta Beta Sigma is a national high school sorority founded in Columbia, Tennessee in 1903."

http://www.deltabetasigma.com/

PS Who lets their high school kid out at 2am?

And to the OP - what do you need help with?

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Originally Posted by mom america

My daughter has begun rush week (as of last night at 2a.m.!! lol) I am looking for info on DBS in Murfreesboro TN. Any help you can give me would be totally appreciated!!

Thanks to all

Barbie's_Rush · #9 07-12-2010, 04:28 PM

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Originally Posted by ree-Xi

PS Who lets their high school kid out at 2am?

And what kind of worthwhile activity would a bunch of high school girls be doing while ''rushing" at 2am? And why would a mom be looking for information after the fact?

ree-Xi · #10 07-12-2010, 04:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Barbie's_Rush

And what kind of worthwhile activity would a bunch of high school girls be doing while ''rushing" at 2am? And why would a mom be looking for information after the fact?

The key word is "worthwhile". Because a high school service sorority that promotes "tolerance, scholarship, social poise and citizenship" has many important things to do in the cloak of darkness.

agzg · #11 07-12-2010, 04:54 PM

2am makes me think of Dazed and Confused.

FSUZeta · #12 07-12-2010, 05:55 PM

if i were up at 2 a.m., i would be dazed and confused.

tcsparky · #13 07-12-2010, 10:01 PM

We had DBS where I grew up. All of my friends were members. The way you find out (at least in my town) that you have been accepted for membership is that they arranged with your mom to "kidnap" you one night. She made sure you had pajamas that were acceptable for public viewing and that the front door was unlocked. They snuck in, woke you up and took you out to the car (or pickup), and you spent the rest of the night going around with them to kidnap the rest of the new pledges.

Everyone had breakfast together, and they took you home, after giving you a time and place for the pledging ceremony. If you decided not to pledge, you simply didn't show up for the pinning ceremony.

When they contacted my mom, she said no.

However, 8 years later she let my sister join.

Go figure!!

The organization has a long history, and does a lot of good philanthropy. It's kinda "sorority lite". They are a legitimate organization.

ThetaPrincess24 · #14 07-13-2010, 02:04 PM

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Originally Posted by tcsparky

We had DBS where I grew up. All of my friends were members. The way you find out (at least in my town) that you have been accepted for membership is that they arranged with your mom to "kidnap" you one night. She made sure you had pajamas that were acceptable for public viewing and that the front door was unlocked. They snuck in, woke you up and took you out to the car (or pickup), and you spent the rest of the night going around with them to kidnap the rest of the new pledges.

Everyone had breakfast together, and they took you home, after giving you a time and place for the pledging ceremony. If you decided not to pledge, you simply didn't show up for the pinning ceremony.

When they contacted my mom, she said no.

However, 8 years later she let my sister join.

Go figure!!

The organization has a long history, and does a lot of good philanthropy. It's kinda "sorority lite". They are a legitimate organization.

I'm sorry but as a step-mother of a 14 year old getting ready to go to high school in the fall, I find that whole 2am thing to be rather silly and ridiculous.

ree-Xi · #15 07-13-2010, 05:47 PM

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Originally Posted by ThetaPrincess24

I'm sorry but as a step-mother of a 14 year old getting ready to go to high school in the fall, I find that whole 2am thing to be rather silly and ridiculous.

Not to mention potentially dangerous. A bunch of teenagers driving around even younger teenagers in the middle of the night, being silly - that's kind of scary. Some states have restrictions on teens driving - such as no driving between midnight and 5 am, passengers limited to just siblings, or people over 18 with a valid license, etc. There are good reasons for that.

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Originally Posted by ThetaPrincess24

This is why I'm not too keen on the idea of high school sororities. At that age, I'm not sure they really get it, are more likely to have inaccurate views of sorority life (what we do, what we're about, etc), and there is usually not a governing body to bring hazing under wraps. That is just my opinion.

I agree. It's like playing house - all of the privileges but none of the responsibilities. This organization apparently has a governing body, but I don't know what level of oversight there is. And again, if it has to take place in the middle of the night, it makes me wonder what else is going on.

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I don't know exactly, but when I was a senior one of my classmates had to wear a sequined prom dress to school.

Apparently, pledges wore silly outfits (which would be considered hazing these days) back in 1948/9. I found a link on some ancestry page (note that the URL has the words "hell week"). Sure, wearing giant bows appears to be in good-natured fun (then again, not so much when you think about the purpose, which is to make the "pledge" stand out - which can be humiliating), but is that the extent of it?

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~armpgs/photos/hell-week-001.jpg

Lastly, where is the OP?