Rush

[dvs-dz]

Rush with frills - what fun, what a nightmare.

I do calligraphy, so I was the nametag/invitation queen. We had rush retreats, endless skit practices (yep, we stole a lot of Broadway tunes - we were doing "A Chorus Line" when I graduated), matching outfits, assigning girls to obtain ivy (hey lady, want your ivy cleared?) to put on trellises and wishing well for our pref. Our best skit was "Rainbow Connection", with songs only about rainbows (and our version of Kermit the turtle).

And Carnation's last paragraph above is very accurate.

[susan314]

I've experienced both sides - went through Rush as a freshman in 1992, when it was still rush and still had frills. By the time I graduated, the frills were starting to disappear and things were transitioning to "recruitment" vs "rush."

When I rushed, we all sang the guests in and out of the house. (Though we couldn't cross the threshold of the doorway - I think they stopped letting them go out into the yard at my school in the late 80s.) It drove the neighbors nuts, but I guess they should have known what they were getting into renting a house next to or across from a sorority house. Besides, it was only once a year in the Fall.

My sophomore year, we had an awesome rainforest theme for Phase B. It was quite stunning and impressive - we had a small waterfall in the corner, live trees, a canopy of vines/greenery over our formal room...I'll have to dig out pictures, because the description doesn't even begin to do it justice. I don't even want to think about how much that level of elaborate decoration cost though.

I'll also agree with the last paragraph of carnation's post.