Recruitment Disasters

[DaffyKD]

Originally Posted by carnation

I've known of a few houses that caught fire during recruitment. Candles, maybe?

Heard it happened to the AXO house at SDSU during preference years ago. SDSU was one of the first campuses to ban candles after that. I don't know about other sororities, but KD will no longer allow candles for this very reason.

DaffyKD

[navane]

Originally Posted by DaffyKD

Heard it happened to the AXO house at SDSU during preference years ago. SDSU was one of the first campuses to ban candles after that. I don't know about other sororities, but KD will no longer allow candles for this very reason.

DaffyKD

I know this is an old post; but, I was their Faculty-Staff Advisor at the time! I remember sitting down to watch the evening news with my dinner when the reporter chimed in with breaking news. The cameraman was taking a close-up shot of the burnt out window. I remember noticing the color of the house and thinking, "That looks like AXO." Then the camera panned back to show the entire house and all of the girls standing in the street in their pref dresses. My thought was "Crap! That *is* AXO!!"

I had just been appointed Faculty-Staff Advisor a few weeks earlier. Nothing says, "Welcome new advisor!" like having the girls' house catch on fire during pref!