Cutting or pledging a group for dumb reasons

[FSUZeta]

Originally Posted by carnation

Forced rushee activities? Wow, what a terrible way for them to attract new members!

At MS State, I remember that one sorority got dinged by almost everyone the first day because they decided to call each other Sister Brown, Sister Jones, etc. We got word of this up in the office about halfway through open house parties and called to warn them. They assured us that they were creating an atmosphere of sisterhood and they'd be okay.

They weren't okay the next day.

Lol!

[FSUZeta]

At another house my hostess was a very sporty girl whose name was Billie Jean, so I made a bad joke that she must enjoy tennis (Billie Jean King had defeated Bobby Riggs a few years before). I look back now and shudder at my opening statement, but it actually was the right thing to say to her. She was majoring in PE, had played on several sports teams in HS, and played on all her sorority's intramural teams. Now I love sports, but am not a fanatic and this girl was. She already had me on the flag football team and it was the ice water round! I realize now that she was just trying to make me feel at home and was trying to show me how I might fit in there, but she took it a little far, so I did not accept the invitation to the next round.