Urban Legends About Recruitment - Page 5

FSUZeta · #1 07-22-2011, 04:59 PM

oh my!

28StGreek · #2 07-22-2011, 08:01 PM

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Originally Posted by ellebud

"IN FACT boys have been known to leave a table and abandon the date if they find out the girl is an abc."

This would never happen at 'Big Private U in LA' due to the fact that any fraternity man's questions when being introduced to a girl for the first time are; "What's your name?", followed immediately by "which house are you in?"

So it would never get as far as a date

ellebud · #3 07-22-2011, 09:50 PM

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Originally Posted by 28StGreek

This would never happen at 'Big Private U in LA' due to the fact that any fraternity man's questions when being introduced to a girl for the first time are; "What's your name?", followed immediately by "which house are you in?"

So it would never get as far as a date

Yes, but this is Large Public School in LA...so, they are a little slower on the uptake.

........oh wait, I graduated from that school.

TPA85 · #4 07-22-2011, 05:14 PM

"They're new on campus so they'll take ANYONE just to get numbers!"

When my chapter did their first formal recruitment post-Colony, there was one girl in my Rho Chi group that kept calling TPA "the free spot" (as in Bingo). Then they dropped her.
Best part was when I got to biology after recruitment (we sat at the same lab table) carrying my brand new Theta Phi Alpha bag and she looked at it and asked "if I seriously got in" there!

There's no such thing as a free spot.

oncegreek · #5 07-22-2011, 06:29 PM

This was one of the rumors back in the day: "At xyz at Big Private U in LA, they go through your handbag while you are on house tours (each rush group did leave their purses at the entrance of each house, where the rush counselors watched them), designated actives while go through your bag, and run your credit cards through a computer, and check your family's credit."
And for the same house, at my campus:"xyz only invited back girls who had at least seven recs."
Also, (and this may not be an urban legend, but it is part of MS, and probably can't be openly discussed), "If you spend the whole party talking to a transfer student, you will be cut, because transfers are not allowed to vote on who is invited back."

ellebud · #6 07-22-2011, 07:13 PM

Since you are talking about Big Private U in LA (and the Big Public University isn Los Angeles...since I transferred there) and I have more than a passing knowledge of the campus: Transfer students cannot be in the house until the first chapter meeting. If it is a year after transferring they are no longer transfers, but actives. The "transfer" students, if there are any, help recruitment in different ways....not by rushing.

So, no she didn't put a kibosh on the invitation....because she didn't meet you.

33girl · #7 07-22-2011, 07:16 PM

They would have been laughing at me...because I didn't bring a purse (this was still in the era when purses on campus were verboten)...and I had no credit cards until the last semester of my senior year. That would just show that my family is so awesome all I need to do is walk in a store and I get stuff.

ellebud · #8 07-22-2011, 07:22 PM

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Originally Posted by 33girl

They would have been laughing at me...because I didn't bring a purse (this was still in the era when purses on campus were verboten)...and I had no credit cards until the last semester of my senior year. That would just show that my family is so awesome all I need to do is walk in a store and I get stuff.

So...your awesomness...you are either royalty or the President of the United States. I am honored!!!!!

bevinpiphi · #9 07-23-2011, 01:05 AM

The most ridiculous one I heard is that Panhel makes all of the Rho Chi's dye/cut their hair, so even if their hair is seen around stickers in rush slideshows, they can't be recognized.

agzg · #10 07-25-2011, 09:29 AM

It's not hard to look up someone's posting history - it's linked right to their username.

So, it's not going to the length of doing anything. It's less work than going from the couch to the refrigerator for some delicious, delicious ice cream.

Just saying.

dgdramadawg · #11 07-18-2011, 07:37 PM

When I was going through recruitment, I was told that the reason the shower heads in Brumby, the all-girl dorm at UGA, are so low is because "every year a girl tried to hang herself when she got dropped by the houses she wanted." Nevermind that they were just built that way in 1966, not moved later on...

Some of these "urban legends" that some of you have mentioned can be true, though. Depends on the chapter and the campus culture. But for the most part, they're all nonsense.

33girl · #12 07-18-2011, 07:41 PM

There's a scale underneath the porch and each rushee's weight is recorded as she enters.

carnation · #13 07-18-2011, 07:47 PM

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Originally Posted by 33girl

There's a scale underneath the porch and each rushee's weight is recorded as she enters.

LOL! WHAT? I thought I'd heard them all!

WCsweet<3 · #14 07-22-2011, 11:58 PM

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Originally Posted by 33girl

There's a scale underneath the porch and each rushee's weight is recorded as she enters.

This one is always around at UO.

At another campus, ABC will cut you if you have smaller than D cups. Oh and no the rumor wasn't about Tri-Delta.

XYZ only takes cheerleaders.

That's all I can come up with now.

BraveMaroon · #15 07-18-2011, 07:55 PM

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Originally Posted by dgdramadawg

When I was going through recruitment, I was told that the reason the shower heads in Brumby, the all-girl dorm at UGA, are so low is because "every year a girl tried to hang herself when she got dropped by the houses she wanted." Nevermind that they were just built that way in 1966, not moved later on...

I heard that one too - I lived in O-House, though, so presumably, we were free to hang ourselves in the showers.