Meanest Thing You've Done/Said to a Rushee

[EE-BO]

Oh man- good thread.

I was pretty blunt during rush back in the day. One guy showed up to a party in a knit vest and I told him he needed to go home, change and come back. He got an attitude about it, so I just told him to leave for good- and he did.

But it is really kind of lame to just tell some kid he sucks. It is a lot more fun to really draw it out and teach him a lesson.

My favorite tactic with a substandard rushee was to get him to start talking about everywhere else he was rushing. Often such rushees would take the bait and talk about the other houses they liked- and the higher their favorite was above their real chances, the better.

And then once we had this info, we would tell the guy we got a call from someone at that house and that he needed to go over there right away and hang out since he had a real shot.

You would not believe how often guys fell for this.

It does not really work so well during summer rush, but at Roundup or other times when all of the houses are having rush events- it is lots of fun.

[breathesgelatin]

The craziest thing that I knew that happened at W&L was one of my friends got a phone message (this was freshman year before most people had cells!) from a house that was just the "Na Na... Na Na Na Na... Hey Hey Hey Goodbye" song over and over again. And then at the end they were like "This is XYZ, don't come back." That was pretty harsh. And I know it's true because I heard the message.

More commonly kids got walked out/asked to leave parties/told not to come back.

Stuff like that makes me happy I'm a girl.

[33girl]

Originally Posted by EE-BO

One guy showed up to a party in a knit vest

With nothing underneath?