Five Towson Sororities on Probation (Alcohol)

[ForeverRoses]

Originally Posted by violetpretty

So where does the money come from for the Pi Chis to stay in the hotels? Do the Pi Chis pay for it out of pocket? Does it come from a fee that every chapter pays per Pi Chi? Does PHA pay for it?

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. It's one of the most fun days of the year/semester that one does not need alcohol to enjoy herself.

My school always put the Rho Chis and the exec members that disaffiliated up in hotels. It wasn't so much to prevent dirty rushing as it was to keep the PNMs from finding out their affiliation. After all, if you saw your Rho Chi walking into a sorority house after class, it would be easy to figure out her affiliation.

Back in the day (1993) we paid $25 for rush. Each chapter had 3 Rho Chis (11 chapters) plus 1 member of exec. So 44 women to put up in a hotel. Each Rho Chi group was assigned to a room (3 women from different chapters in each group). So figure 14 hotel rooms for 1 week (okay 8 days). Most hotels (especially in a college town during a non-event week) will give you a block of rooms for a lower price.

We had about 50 girls per Rho Chi group to start out with, so with each of them paying $25 you have $1250 per group, the hotel cost was about $75 a night for one room- you would need that for 8 days- so your cost is $600 for the week in the hotel. Plus you still have $650 to pay for the exec room, the favor given to all rushees on pref night (a water bottle the year I rushed) and other incidentals.

It was completely doable.

As for the not drinking on bid day, well it's a good thing they didn't have facebook when I was in college (but at least we waited until AFTER the official stuff was over)

[AlphaFrog]

Originally Posted by ForeverRoses

After all, if you saw your Rho Chi walking into a sorority house after class, it would be easy to figure out her affiliation.

Random, and probably dumb question, but are there any campuses that have the Rho Chis live in other sororities houses? As in, if there were 5 XYZ RhoChis and 5 ABC Rho Chis, the XYZ Rho Chis would live in ABC's house and the ABCs would live in XYZ's house?? I know there are all sorts of logistical problems with that scenario, but I can't say that it would be completely impossible.

[violetpretty]

Originally Posted by ForeverRoses

My school always put the Rho Chis and the exec members that disaffiliated up in hotels. It wasn't so much to prevent dirty rushing as it was to keep the PNMs from finding out their affiliation. After all, if you saw your Rho Chi walking into a sorority house after class, it would be easy to figure out her affiliation.

The chapter houses are not close to where most PNMs live, but if they wanted to camp out and see who lives where, I suppose they could. With the advents of facebook, google, etc. if a PNM is absolutely determined to find out a Rho Gamma's affiliation, she'll find out. A couple of mine figured me out because they found a picture of me in the Sigma Kappa Triangle (obviously something I had no control over). A few more figured it out because they saw a picture of me in a scrapbook. My face was covered, but they could see my hair and they were like "You're the only RG with short brown hair."

Originally Posted by ForeverRoses

We had about 50 girls per Rho Chi group to start out with, so with each of them paying $25 you have $1250 per group, the hotel cost was about $75 a night for one room- you would need that for 8 days- so your cost is $600 for the week in the hotel. Plus you still have $650 to pay for the exec room, the favor given to all rushees on pref night (a water bottle the year I rushed) and other incidentals.

What's the point of even having Rho Chis if there are 50 of them in a group?!?! That defeats the point of having any personal attention!

[ForeverRoses]

Originally Posted by violetpretty

The chapter houses are not close to where most PNMs live, but if they wanted to camp out and see who lives where, I suppose they could. With the advents of facebook, google, etc. if a PNM is absolutely determined to find out a Rho Gamma's affiliation, she'll find out. A couple of mine figured me out because they found a picture of me in the Sigma Kappa Triangle (obviously something I had no control over). A few more figured it out because they saw a picture of me in a scrapbook. My face was covered, but they could see my hair and they were like "You're the only RG with short brown hair."



What's the point of even having Rho Chis if there are 50 of them in a group?!?! That defeats the point of having any personal attention!

Our sorority houses are across the street or down the street from main campus buildings including several large classroom buildings, so non-greeks are constantly walking past the houses.

As for 50 PNMs in a rush group- we had three rush counselors in every group, so that is about 16 PNMs for every Rho Chi/Gamma/ Chi. So we had plenty of personal attention.

Plus, since the Rho Chis were staying in hotels, we were given their phone number and we could call them at any time (this was before cell phones).