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Originally posted by polarpi
I guess our university has what you'd all call "frills" recruitment (it doesn't seem very frilly to me, but that's my personal take on it!) We served ice water first round, McDonald's orange punch second round, root beer/cola third round, and sparkling cider and cake fourth round. Decorations tended to be pretty simple the first two rounds, and then third and fourth rounds were a lot more elaborate.
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And to add another perspective-- as an alumna of Valpo (albeit from the Delta Chi Epsilon local that became ADPi), recruitment during 1992-1995 was crazy!
* One weekend we had a "mini-carnival" in one of the dining halls, with toss-ball-in-milk-can setups and cheesy mini prizes
* another year we had a decades-of-music skit event in the basement of a fraternity house (the guys weren't around, but still!)
* we often had a semi-formal pre-pref night, with another skit, in the refectory of a campus classroom building
* one year our theme party, on our dorm corridor, was a casino night where we played craps, poker, blackjack, and had a mocktails bar
* preference was often at Casa Del Roma, a nice restaurant a few miles from the University, with fraternity men in shirts and ties driving the rushees to the party!
* All of these had theme-related nametage, like the roses for theme night, where you had to cut out the yellow, write the person's name, cut out the green, glue them together, then use gold glitter paint to outline the darned thing. Times 100. Per party.
The whole thing was three weeks my first two years, and two weeks the last two years (only one party per night mid-week, with more on the weekends; it was five rounds of informal, fun day, semiformal, theme day in CR or on corridor, and preference)
Compared to that, Valpo's current formal recruitment is relatively no-frills, though there are still skits and actual beverages and food throughout the week. When I arrived for skit night last year, to help out, I was completely shocked. So PolarPi, be glad you weren't here for the crazy 90's! I think our budget was only $1000 then, though it went a little farther with 1990s dollars...
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