What is it REALLY like?

[Xidelt]

What's a kitchen chapter?

[SydneyK]

Originally Posted by Xidelt

What's a kitchen chapter?

Chapters that are mostly comprised of women who, in higher tier chapters, would normally be relinquished to kitchen duty during recruitment.

[DrPhil]

Originally Posted by SydneyK

Chapters that are mostly comprised of women who, in higher tier chapters, would normally be relinquished to kitchen duty during recruitment.

LOL. I know that agzg said this is a joke but I swear I have read something like this in recruitment threads where GCers talked about members who are in the background for whatever reasons. Is this one of those jokingly serious things?

[agzg]

Originally Posted by DrPhil

LOL. I know that agzg said this is a joke but I swear I have read something like this in recruitment threads where GCers talked about members who are in the background for whatever reasons. Is this one of those jokingly serious things?

Whole chapters wouldn't be kitchen chapters.

[Greek_or_Geek?]

Originally Posted by agzg

Whole chapters wouldn't be kitchen chapters.

Sure they can be. They just don't realize it. That's what EVERYONE says.

[DrPhil]

Originally Posted by agzg

Whole chapters wouldn't be kitchen chapters.

thinking out loud/
Whole chapters wouldn't be relegated to the kitchen. "Kitchen chapters" are comprised of women who would be relegated to the kitchen if they were in other chapters. That is what SydneyK is saying.
/thinking out loud

I just figured out why "kitchen chapters" is an exaggeration and a joke. I initially read SydneyK's post to mean that there are chapters that have women who sit in the kitchen. Don't mind me...move along, lookie-loos...oh look, a pony....

[MaryPoppins]

Originally Posted by DrPhil

Don't mind me...move along, lookie-loos...oh look, a pony....

Me too. LOL at your segue.

[AXOmom]

Originally Posted by WCsweet<3

Seriously though, are you missing common sense or are you just dumb? Do you think True Blood is real showing of Louisiana? Is House a good how doctors/hospitals really are?

GO through recruitment and figure it out yourself. Stop listening to other people.

True story- freshman year/UO, 1981. Meet this girl in my dorm who hears my leftover West Virginian accent and assumes this means I know all about the South and wants to know if "The Dukes of Hazzard" is what the South is really like. Suddenly I had some serious questions about UO's admissions requirements.

Originally Posted by summer_gphib

Read Pledged and follow it up with a marathon of Legally Blonde. Then study Sorority Boys, and don't ever forget House Bunny. That one is super accurate.

Wait, the House Bunny isn't accurate? Well this is just incredibly disappointing information. Hmph...don't care, still love it. Particularly this scene http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3xvA3cc-zU . Asked daughter if she would please consider doing BYOM as a social function. Usually got this response:. She just wasn't thinking outside the box....still think it's genius. .

To the OP: You may be a troll looking for reactions, but just on the off chance you aren't, I'll bite.

To answer your question: The sorority women at WSU are just like the girls you've known throughout your life. I can say this because they were the girls my daughter knew throughout hers and the ones I knew as she grew up. Every kind of girl you've known will be present somewhere in one of those chapters.

I will say this specifically. My daughter didn't join a sorority at WSU (she went there her freshman year) but she did join one at her second school primarily because of the girls she knew in sororities at WSU, and I think that speaks well of them.

[MaryPoppins]

Yeah . . .

Originally Posted by Xidelt

What's a kitchen chapter?

[VandalSquirrel]

Originally Posted by Absisca

Everyone talks about how Sorority girls are snooty, trashy, uptight, crazy partiers, bitches, ect.
I want to know what its REALLY like before I rush. Straight up honesty. I want to go to Washington State University.
What do you think?

One of the hazing stories I've heard is having to eat three bowls of lentil chili, put on white satin pants, then play Twister with a fraternity. There is one chapter that makes each pledge eat a 30 oz wheel of Crimson Fire, without crackers.

The worst hazing is called The Scottish Play. The girls stay in a room until a buffet of dishes made with lentils, eggs, mushrooms, cabbage, and cheese is finished. Then they have them put on their bathing suits and get into a fraternity's pool. They chant "Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn and cauldron bubble." until a girl makes the cauldron bubble. That girl gets the pledge name Hecate.

[AXOmom]

^^^Now that you mention it, I think daughter knew Hecate '07.

I have to say the most horrific part of your story is the lentil chili. Lentils are a sacred business in the Palouse and should never be used in such a despicable way by mean, witchy sorority girls. That alone should have gotten them kicked off campus and out of eastern Washington altogether. Daughter's first cheerleading duty at WSU was marching in the nationally famous Pullman Lentil Parade. Her FB status that day read, "I can't believe I'm marching in a parade for a bean."

By the way, since I've heard non-stop praise for Cougar cheese from every corner - does being forced to eat a 30 oz wheel of Crimson fire fall into the hazing category or the gift category?