Going out prior to rush?

AchiO86 · #1 08-05-2006, 02:53 AM

This happened once durring our spring informal recruitment. We saw a girl at the fraternity next door being wasted and acting like a complete fool and the next day she attended our informal party. Needless to say, she didn't receive a bid from our house.

I don't attend USC so I don't know the rules for them but I'm sure you wouldn't want to decrease your chances in getting into a great house so I would take as many precautions as possible. Plus, there will be more parties the next week.

jwsteele · #2 08-05-2006, 03:38 PM

As a fraternity member at USC I can say that it highly depends...if you are a sophomore transfer nobody will be able to remember seeing you, but if you were at USC last year and waited a year to rush, chances are you will run into sorority girls who will recognize you on the row. Now the chances that girls will care is pretty slim, but it would only take one "holier-than-thou" type of girl to report you and get you kicked out of rush. The chances that that would happen are slim to none but it is possible. Most of the freshmen I knew last year pulled it off but then again there was nobody out on the row that would recognize them. Pre-rush is so ridiculously big at USC...last year one particular night was attended by literally thousands of students and was shut down by about 40 LAPD cop cars and two helicopters. So the chances of a sorority member who doesn't know you remembering your face from the hundreds and hundreds of girls that will be out is minimal.

KSUViolet06 · #3 08-05-2006, 05:29 PM

It's not so much about not going out, as it is about being low key.

If you're drunk and making a fool of yourself, getting arrested, or getting kicked out of a fraternity- a sorority member could potentially notice you. Then once rush starts, she'll meet you and remember you as (for example) "that girl who was drunk and cursing on the row after she got kicked out of SAE".

You don't want that. So in my opinion, go out and have fun. Just don't do anything you wouldn't want to be remembered by.

Jimmy Choo · #4 08-05-2006, 06:59 PM

Are these just USC rules or did Panhellenic start something new? Granted I've been out of school quite some time but when I was an undergrad the only time I heard of restrictions like this were on active sorority members. They didn't want us to accidently run into a rushee. From what I remember rushees could go out til there hearts were content. We however, could not.