Okay, Okay, carnation's retro rush thread (ie, how not to do recruitment)

SWTXBelle · #1 06-14-2007, 03:34 PM

BUT - how big were the computers? And did they use punch-cards???

AlphaFrog · #2 06-14-2007, 03:40 PM

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Originally Posted by SWTXBelle

BUT - how big were the computers? And did they use punch-cards???

I seriously was going to ask that, but I've already done enough elderfying today.

carnation · #3 06-14-2007, 03:44 PM

They were the kind you see on the Flintstones, where you slide stone cards through a slot and little dinosaurs bite the holes into them. And they broke down that year and the next and were still breaking down 5 years later at Mississippi State.

AZ-AlphaXi · #4 06-14-2007, 03:49 PM

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Originally Posted by carnation

They were the kind you see on the Flintstones, where you slide stone cards through a slot and little dinosaurs bite the holes into them. And they broke down that year and the next and were still breaking down 5 years later at Mississippi State.

Oh OH ... I worked on those ... when I went thru rush in 1970 I worked in the computer center and got to help run the invitation acceptances thru the sorter.

But man it was nasty cleaning up after those little dinos

carnation · #5 06-14-2007, 05:31 PM

..so my roommate and I are trying to stay up that night and the invites don't come and we finally drop off to sleep around 11. The phone rings at 11:30!-but it's not the counselor, it's Coach Broyles who wants the freshman and sophomore cheerleaders to show up at some pep rally for the JV team.

Somewhere in the middle of the night, the counselor shows up in our room with invitations. I sit up groggily, look at the invitations, nope don't really like those, tell the counselor to drop me from rush, and go back to sleep.

Ocalagirl · #6 06-14-2007, 05:38 PM

WHAT?!? OMG wow!!

dgdramadawg · #7 06-14-2007, 05:50 PM

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Somewhere in the middle of the night, the counselor shows up in our room with invitations. I sit up groggily, look at the invitations, nope don't really like those, tell the counselor to drop me from rush, and go back to sleep.

Wow!!!

AlwaysSAI · #8 06-14-2007, 05:59 PM

I love threads where that happens in the first couple of posts! It makes for such great twists and turns.

KEEP GOING CARNATION!!! Cuz, I have to work until 10p....

AnchorAlumna · #9 06-14-2007, 10:12 PM

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Originally Posted by AZ-AlphaXi

Oh OH ... I worked on those ... when I went thru rush in 1970 I worked in the computer center and got to help run the invitation acceptances thru the sorter. But man it was nasty cleaning up after those little dinos

Ha Ha, you and I are the same age! I don't think U of Ala. used computers back then...the earth was still molton lava and it was too hot!!

carnation · #10 06-14-2007, 10:40 PM

So we come to Bid Day. I had planned to be elsewhere when the bids were given out but surprise! The computers acted up again and the bids were late so I was caught in traffic on Sorority Row when the happy NMs were spilling down the street. That was hard.

Debbie didn't get a bid from either sorority she preffed.

Cathy didn't get a bid from either sorority she preffed, including her mother's group, so I guess that sororities didn't have the rule then that legacies who go to Prefs must be put on the first bid list.

I still wanted to be Greek very much but I could see that with cheer duties vs. pledge duties, it'd be next to impossible. Then I found out that if I wanted to continue in my major, I would have to transfer because Arkansas was dropping it so I put Greek life on the back burner. I got an open rush bid but turned it down. I had plans for my next recruitment.

Ocalagirl · #11 06-14-2007, 10:42 PM

wow this story keeps getting better and better...I don't think, no I know I couldn't have come up some of the story lines that have come up in these retro threads.

DeltaBetaBaby · #12 06-15-2007, 06:47 PM

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Originally Posted by carnation

They were the kind you see on the Flintstones, where you slide stone cards through a slot and little dinosaurs bite the holes into them. And they broke down that year and the next and were still breaking down 5 years later at Mississippi State.

Did they eventually sell them to uiuc?

Ocalagirl · #13 06-15-2007, 07:53 PM

MORE MORE MORE!! Pretty Please with sugar, whip cream, and a cherry on top

SWTXBelle · #14 06-15-2007, 08:11 PM

She's teasing us. . .

carnation · #15 06-15-2007, 08:39 PM

No, it's just that it takes a long time to remember all the details!

Let's see...we went to the cafeteria to get our invitations which were late because, of course, the computer broke down. The next day would have 9 parties so everyone hoped for at least 9 invitations. I opened my envelope-good, got that one back, got that one, and that--I had 10, I was happy! The 4 that cut me were good but they were ultra-feminine, deep South types so I wasn't too upset although when I got back to the dorm, it turned out that all the upperclassmen there had been cut by the same 4 and some of them were really upset.(run-on, I know, but you get it) It began to occur to us that even if you had good grades and activities, some sororities weren't at all pro-upperclassmen.

So I went to 9-party day (all 9 in one day) and had a great time. Several had begun to stand out! We went to the cafeteria again the next day for our (late, you know why) invitations. Let's see...good, good, oh crud that one must have cut me, good, !!! what are you doing in here-I cut you yesterday, and so on. I had been cut by 3 (2 of those hurt). That night I would find out that those 3 had also cut the rest of the upperclassmen.

We had to cut down to 5 and I had 6. I was already somewhat tired of putting on the Southern charm and smiling and chatting. Even though I was the same age as most of the other rushees (18), I was a junior and was ready to be a sorority member. Enough of this rush business. I had an idea...