How to motivate girls to go to social events!

[DeltaBetaBaby]

Originally Posted by melindawarren

[Heads up: my sorority has not had a date party since I joined, so I can't comment on those. If I understand correctly, you have to find a date and a costume? I can see why those would not be as enjoyable for guys. I'd love one because I'm a dress-up person, but I can't imagine guys getting quite as into those.]

Depends on the campus, obviously. My campus had a tradition of "pledge dances", wherein the new pledge class would throw an event shortly after initiation for the whole chapter. Both fraternities and sororities did them, and the level of participation in costumes and such usually depended on the theme. If the pledge class did a good job of picking a theme everyone liked and really hyping it up, the guys would go all-out as much as the girls. One of the best I ever attended was "Psi Up-Saloon", but c'mon, who can't find jeans and a cowboy hat? By contrast, my own pledge class did Ma-Phi-a, and guys aren't all that keen on wearing a suit to go out to a bar.

[Psi U MC Vito]

Originally Posted by DeltaBetaBaby

"Psi Up-Saloon",

That is awesome.
/laneswerve

[DeltaBetaBaby]

Originally Posted by Psi U MC Vito

That is awesome.
/laneswerve

It was. Obviously, everyone tried to put their letters into their theme, somehow, and that was a really good one. Other times, they were really shoe-horned in. I think my senior year, our pledge dance was something like "Mu-rdi Gras".