bid day traditions

[Buttonz]

Originally Posted by howtheSunrose

I don't think it's that big of a deal. We did little dances and cheers during our new member time. I'm a shy person and I can't say I was jumping up and down in excitement but never once thought to myself, "Omgosh, I should have joined XYZ instead".

They're just having fun.

IMO, doing something during bid day that would cause a NM to feel out of place or embarrassed would make me think twice....but that's me

[kathykd2005]

Originally Posted by Buttonz

I think if I saw the group that I accepted a bid to do this I'd think twice if I made the right choice in accepting the bid and wonder if I would have been better off elsewhere.

OMG! I know this song and we did it, too!!! It was nothing like Ginuwine or anything sexual. It is purely in good fun, and is very innocent. It's just being silly and dancing. On my campus, it's done like a cheer with clapping and the sisters stop in front of one of their friends or their "rush crush" and just dance--the other person doesn't have to dance and it's generally just a good time had by all. The Chi Os also do the same thing. I promise it's not hazing! It's just a celebration sort of dance!!!

[UGAalum94]

Originally Posted by cuteASAbug

All of the actives stand in a circle and chant, one by one, the new members go in the middle of the circle and pretend to ride the pony. I forget exactly how it goes but it's something like "come on Elphaba, ride that pony, show them how we ride that pony, front to front, my baby, back to back my baby, side to side my baby" and there are a couple more things, but I forget those.

We never did anything like this, but I think it could be fun, inside-the-group-silliness worthy, just not well suited to how we did bid day on my campus.

I just wanted to pipe up because everyone so far was all like "oh, that's embarrassing and humiliating" and "I might re-think my bid."

I wouldn't have wanted to do that on bid day at the end of rush because at that point I just wanted some comfort and relaxation, but it sounds like it be a funny thing to do at a sisterhood retreat or something.

My experience with bid day is that it had a lot more of a recruitment-best-behavior-vibe more than a wacky-be-silly together vibe. I think pictures, meeting rose sisters, maybe a cook out, and then something low key. For me a pool party would not have been low key because I've never been big on appearing in public in a bathing suit.

[alrphimu]

"ride the pony" is great! haha, i always play it with my little girls when i'm a camp counselor!

on the same lines, we always dance to "ice cream and cake" by the buckwheat boyz -- it's obnoxious and annoying, but we have a coreographed dance to it that is kinda our "thing" that we always do to pump ourselves up, and we have to teach it to our new girls!

we have in the past always rented out a roller skating rink (ice cream and cake on roller skates isn't easy, though...), but this year we rented out a bowling alley! wahoo!

and at Mizzou there are 8 (or 5, or 10 -- depending on who you talk to) "traditions" that you are supposed to do before you graduate, one of which is jumping in the fountain in the middle of campus, and most girls do that -- it's so much fun because it's usually blazing hot outside and the fountain isn't that big, so with 150+ girls jumping it gets crowded!

[Buttonz]

Originally Posted by AlphaGamUGAAlum

I wouldn't have wanted to do that on bid day at the end of rush because at that point I just wanted some comfort and relaxation, but it sounds like it be a funny thing to do at a sisterhood retreat or something.
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See, that's my thing...to do something like that at a sisterhood retreat, when you know the girls a lot better is one thing. To barely know the girls (because, come on, you don't really get to know the girls that much during rush) would be embarrassing. We do some embarrassing things at sisterhood events but they are funny because we all know each other and we just laugh at it...but to do it on day one....when there are so many other things you could be doing ... nah.

[ForeverRoses]

Originally Posted by cuteASAbug

I'm so excited for fall recruitment next semester and for my first bid day on the other side! I can't wait. I was wondering if anyone's chapters had any unique bid day traditions to make it even more fun! One of my friends pledged a sorority at the same time that I did, and she said that her chapter's tradition is for all of the new members to "ride the pony" on bid day. There is no actual pony. A weird tradition if you ask me, but they all enjoy it. Does anyone else have any traditions or things that are unique to their chapter?

Yes, please explain what this means, I have a vision of 50 women in sundresses running around "riding" those stick horses.