Retro Fraternity Rush -totally 80's

[BSUPhiSig'92]

So the Saturday of Round Robin comes around, it's a beautiful, late fall day. (at least as beautiful as it gets in Muncie) My friends and I show up at the student center ballroom to be assigned to our Rho Chi group, where there are about 600 guys waiting to go through Round Robin. (fraternity rush numbers are nowhere near that anymore)

The Rho Chis are gathered around the front of the room, all of them wearing navy blazers, khakis, white button downs and repp ties. Jon and I get assigned to the same Rho Chi, who strikes me as being a bit of a meathead.
We will visit all 16 houses on this day, 20 minutes at each-no breaks and lots of walking.

Since it seems to be a trend, and a lot of y'all care about it, I will describe what I was wearing: A&F Khakis (from back when A&F was REALLYold school preppy and not just a mall store; a white turtleneck, and this really nice, Woolrich sweater that I still have (but don't fit into anymore), and my Bean blucher moccasins.

We visited the following 16 chapters for round robin (and keeping in the style of the others):

VW Rabbit Cabriolet
Ford
Oldsmobile
Hyundai
Chevy Monte Carlo
Nissan
Porsche
Buick
VW Microbus
Camaro
BMW
Corvette
Yugo
Honda
Dodge
Mom's station wagon

I've forgotten a lot of what happened at some of the houses, but here are some of the highlights:

VW: Well, to be blunt, I felt more like I was being hit on rather than rushed!

Ford: My Rho Chi belonged to this one. Pretty much the whole chapter seemed like him, and when we went in the house, there was NO furniture on the entire main floor - bizarre.

Oldsmobile: Had an active brother that was - I swear - at least 50 years old. Grey hair and a porn-star mustache. I asked one of the (younger) actives if he was an adviser, and he said "No, he's an active brother." They also had a tiny chapter with a house that could only house 4 guys.

Nissan: Had their round robin party in the garage behind their house. I saw inside the front door of the house, and there was this HUGE hole in the floor of the living room, going down to the basement. They showed us really crappy blueprints of their upcoming new house that was designed by a guy a year ahead of me...

VW Microbus: Showed us this loft/den-type thing that was essentially their opium den or something.

Porsche: We all referred to it as "Polo House" because everyone was wearing Polo cologne and shirts. They swarmed all over me, but ignored most of the other guys.

Monte Carlo: They seemed pretty cool and the guy I talked to was nice.

Honda: Snapped their fingers all the time, all wore identical blue blazers & ties, talked about their famous alumni (only one actually from their chapter) and showed a slide show

Corvette: Pretty cool, the guys were nice, very athletic house.

BMW: Great house, BMOC chapter. First guy I talked to actually turned and walked away from me in mid-sentence. Their rush chair tried to make the save, but...

Yugo: Paul's chapter that he swore we would all love. Not impressed at all.

Mom's station wagon: 'nuff said

Buick: Really friendly guys, who asked me a lot of questions about St. Louis and had a Chow mascot.