Back in the day . . .

[dekeguy]

Originally Posted by honeychile

RUSH WITH FRILLS!!!

Did anyone else play "Cardinal Puff"?

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We did "Salamanders". I understand this came from German university fraternities or "Student Corps". Apparently one had to do a perfect Salamander before one could go into the "Salle a manger" and have dinner.
Not sure why the German students used a French phrase for dining room except that it was a good play on words. Anyway, one could get well and truly lubricated before having anything to eat if you messed up your salamanders. Memory dims (brain cells shot by too many imperfect salamanders?) as to the exact sequence of the salamander but I think it was distantly related to Cardinal Puff.

[SWTXBelle]

Cardinal Puff was big on our campus - I never got into it, but I remember it!

[oldu]

I know this may be hard for some of you to imagine but I was in school during the late 1950s, and campus life was decidedly different then. I was at a major midwestern university but our codes were pretty typical to most institutions. First, we had to wear a coat and tie to dinner each night (Friday was casual) and, as a result, many wore coats and ties to afternoon classes. Women still had to maintain "hours:" 10:30 weeknights and 1:00 on weekends, although there was some scurrying up the fire escape sometimes by the braver ones. Singing was a big deal for both fraternities and sororities, and servenading another group was popular after Monday night chapter meetings. In fact, there seemed to be much more musical talent then because we, and several other fraternities, had in-house combos that were actually very good. Greek sings and talent shows were big, so huge at Northwestern that theirs ran for several nights and tickets were scalped like at athletic events. The opposite sex was never allowed above the main floor of any chapter house, and all but the tiniest groups had house mothers. Ah, for the good old days!

[barbino]

Originally Posted by oldu

I know this may be hard for some of you to imagine but I was in school during the late 1950s, and campus life was decidedly different then. I was at a major midwestern university but our codes were pretty typical to most institutions. First, we had to wear a coat and tie to dinner each night (Friday was casual) and, as a result, many wore coats and ties to afternoon classes. Women still had to maintain "hours:" 10:30 weeknights and 1:00 on weekends, although there was some scurrying up the fire escape sometimes by the braver ones. Singing was a big deal for both fraternities and sororities, and servenading another group was popular after Monday night chapter meetings. In fact, there seemed to be much more musical talent then because we, and several other fraternities, had in-house combos that were actually very good. Greek sings and talent shows were big, so huge at Northwestern that theirs ran for several nights and tickets were scalped like at athletic events. The opposite sex was never allowed above the main floor of any chapter house, and all but the tiniest groups had house mothers. Ah, for the good old days!

NORTHWESTERN! I knew it! I love to visit this campus - to check out the Pi Phi house there though it's been years since I helped with rush, Northwestern was "redistricted." One of my brothers was an Evans Scholar there. The quads are still absolutely beautiful (although I hate to admit that admit I prefer U of Chicago for its "total intellectualism"). Northwestern still maintains an "old' feeling -there is too much ivy around there for it to ever feel new. The art library is tucked away in a little corner and still feels like you never left the 1930's or 40's. The older buildings are still there and being used. They have not been torn down & rebuilt like some college campuses.There are still Greek sings and talent shows there. Don't all the sorority houses still have housemothers???? Some things never really change, they just get better with age. Northwestern University is just one of those things.

[AGDee]

1983-87

Frilly rush, themes, favors at every party, food that fit the theme, "costumes" (like 50's for Grease night), decorations, hand made name tags for everybody.

The song on our whole campus was "We Are Family". When the DJ started playing it, all the sorority women bunched together with their sisters on the dance floor and tried to outsing eachother "We are AGD", "We are Alpha Xi", "We are Sigma Three" and "We are Sigma K"(they never figured out how to make it rhyme). The men would just stand there watching and shaking their heads.

Shout reminds me of the TKE house.

TKEs had happy hour every Friday afternoon at their house. THE place to be.

LXAs had a dance floor in their walkout basement, perfect for parties.

Real candles were nice.

Domino's large pizzas for $5, delivered within 30 minutes or they were free... we banked on that A LOT. They also came with a free quart of pop (soda for you people from other parts of the country) in a cardboard carton.

Matching baseball jackets.. each fraternity and sorority had "their" jackets, all totally matching except for the embroidered name. Ours were yellow with red writing, highly visible all over campus!

Other songs we HAD to dance to.. any Michael Jackson, Madonna, Prince and...

Superfreak, superfreak the girl's a superfreak!

[honeychile]

I can remember a PNM going through COR and asking what the difference between three sororities was, and one sister said, "Most sororities tend to go to concerts together. Just last weekend, the ABCs went to see Neil Diamond, the XYZs went to see Billy Joel, and we went Bruce Springsteen."

One sister had this weird thing for "Smoke From a Distant Fire" and that became all of our song. I have pictures (somewhere) of three different weddings with a bunch of us doing our little dance to it - each including the bride with her skirt hiked up, well, pretty high!

And yes, Cutie_Hootie, every Monday was pin attire - ALL day, classes, meals, everywhere. The only ones who got out of that were the nursing students.