Serenading?

[WaxOff]

We serenade CONSTANTLY There are legends (and Facebook groups) about the Sinfonian Serenade.

Just about every interaction we have with a Sorority includes a serenade. Many of our Chapters will hire themselves out for serenades on Valentine's Day and other occasions. We've even serenaded complete strangers while out and about.

But to answer your questions...

But, what does it accomplish?

Multiple things. Aside from the basics of getting our name out there and raising funds, it promotes interaction between the students, and in some cases gets people some extra lovin from their SO's

Why is it done?

Why not? In all seriousness, we do it because we enjoy it and the recipients of our serenades enjoy it.

Who does it? - The pledges only, or the entire chapter?

For us it varies. I can remember participating in serenades with only my fellow Probationary Brothers, some with just my Brothers after I crossed, and some with a combination of the two.

How often is it done?

As I said before, we do it constantly. There's a stronger emphasis around holidays and both School and Chapter events, but we honestly never needed an excuse to do it.

[Katmandu]

While I was an active, sororities and fraternities serenaded before their big events/formals and sometimes as thank you after partnering for homecoming, etc.

We would serenade the independent dates at our house, then go to each of our dates' fraternity houses. This took place on a school night the week before the formal/event. We would typically learn one or two pop songs (for our Christmas formal, it was a couple of Christmas songs), then we would sing one of our sorority songs, and end with a fraternity song of each of the houses we were serenading--with the guys joining in. We usually had two or three part harmony, and practiced after dinner in the weeks before the serenade. It was a big deal at our campus and every chapter had a songleader. Some fraternities would come serenade if one of their members became pinned or engaged to one of our members, but not all did that.

Actually, singing in general was big among the fraternities and sororities.... We ate a sit down dinner each evening, and our prayer was sung, then we ended dinner with several songs, either one of ours or a fraternity song and sang a lot of songs during rush to the rushees. (not recruitment or PNM's......)