Well, I am new to this thread...and GC for that matter...but I'd like to put my two cents in. Ole Miss is notorious for overdressing for football games--and that's the way we like it! It's hard for me to think about going to an Ole Miss game without my pearls and a (red, of course) sundress. I personally don't wear stillettos (they sink into the grass), but I know plenty of people who do. A lot of people think Sports Illustrated said it best: "It seems that 97% of the world's really really ridiculously good-looking people go to Ole Miss. We'll check out the campus tailgate party on the Grove, where the gents sport coats and ties, toting their bourbon highballs in one hand and their highly decorative dates in the other. Chandeliers even hang in tents, providing a light in September in Faulkner country."
But anyway! At Ole Miss, Greek life is probably dominated mostly by southern girls simply because most PNM's come from MS, AL, LA, TN, GA, etc, and many of those places have alumnae groups who send lots of girls to Ole Miss. HOWEVER, there are always girls from "random" states that make quite a stir. The keys are the same for everyone, "southern" or not:
1)have a good, personal, glowing rec from an alum in the general area and 2) get to know people whenever possible! I am surprised by girls who don't really go and put themselves out there and meet girls from the chapters--in bars, on campus, in class, etc.
I know our sorority, has lots of southern ladies (we WERE founded here!), but we definitely want a good mix of girls--if she's a great girl and we learn about her through recs or through personal contact, then we want her!
Rush isn't just about your hometown, it's about getting to know people. It's joining into a group, not just wearing some Greek letters. But that's easy for us to say, because Ole Miss Greeks have recruitment midway through the first semester, and we get to meet girls during their first few weeks. I imagine it'd be really different if we had recruitment before school started.
Yup, we dress up for games, and Ole Miss recruitment of "northerners"
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