I'm late on this... Oh well!
I'm actually serving as a pref night co-chair this year. We've made a lot of changes and I think this year's pref night is going to rule.
We have pref singers every year that sing entrance and exit songs as well as a special Pi Phi song... I think it will be really pretty. When the PNMs come in with us we take them upstairs (all our rush occurs on the second floor, per Panhel rules), we have pairs of chairs with end tables scattered around our dining hall with a big flower arrangement/prettiness in the center of the room. We talk for a bit (working up to seriousness), and then we have the pref ceremony. It's a new ceremony--Our TGC helped us with it and we're really excited. It has candles and speaker who talk about the light of Pi Phi and how it brings forth all our best characteristics and appreciates them... And at the end, our Pres talks a bit, and then our secretary tells her story (her mother died her freshmen year, and it's very moving). Then the pref singers sing the pref song (this year it's a Pi Phi version of "Now and Forever"). Then we go back to the seats and do the final push. And as we go out we hand each a pearl and let her drop into a fountain on the way out and tell her to make a wish.
Ok, I think that's it. I am so excited about rush, I've been dreaming about it a lot... Exams start up tomorrow so I probably won't be posting a lot this coming week... And after that is strict silence. I'll be around but I'm going to keep it fairly quiet just in case there are any PNMs online. I'll let you know on bid day (January 10) how everything went! And hopefully have funny/happy stories!!!!
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