Funny reasons you may have been cut

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Originally Posted by Lightning Bug!

Stories about cutting and being cut...

I later found out that this house got in trouble for secretly videotaping PNMs walking up their walk so they could review the tapes later!

what were they looking for in the tapes? Like recording them to hear what the PNMs said or like "she walks funny lets cut her!" ? haha

[LAblondeGPhi]

Originally Posted by Lightning Bug!

but I later found out that this house got in trouble for secretly videotaping PNMs walking up their walk so they could review the tapes later!

Am I the only one who thinks this could be helpful if you're meeting hundreds of women a day?

Creepy, yes, but so are most things in recruitment. (bump groups, distress signals and target rushing, anyone?)

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[quote=LAblondeGPhi;1695616]

Originally Posted by Lightning Bug!

but I later found out that this house got in trouble for secretly videotaping PNMs walking up their walk so they could review the tapes later!
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Am I the only one who thinks this could be helpful if you're meeting hundreds of women a day?

Creepy, yes, but so are most things in recruitment. (bump groups, distress signals and target rushing, anyone?)

I can't see it being helpful if they're judging cuts on someone's outfit. Seems like a rather shallow way to cut.

[fantASTic]

Originally Posted by bevinpiphi

I'm a part of the Medieval Combat Club at my school (if you don't know what I'm talking about, check out www.belegarth.com). I joined that my freshman year, and I have a lot of friends in it. My boyfriend is also a member. So I went into rush figuring that the houses should know I'm involved in that, since it's not like it's going to stop anytime soon. I could tell exactly which houses would not invite me back after the, "So, what other RSO's are you in?" I started with my leadership position in the Association of Residence Halls every time, and then went into the "You know the people who dress funny and hit each other with foam sticks on the quad? Yeah, I'm one of those" explanation. The only house that reacted positively was Pi Phi, and that's where I'm at.

Somehow...I'm not surprised. Sometimes, when you portray an activity in a negative light (e.g. "dress funny", make yourself sound strange), organizations that encourage 'fitting in', like sororities, can be turned off a little. Good for you for being involved in a lot, though!

[DDDlady]

On the first day of recruitment we take tours at every house. While on a tour at the XYZ house, our group walks past a little room that had a TV in it. The girl who was taking me on the tour says, " This is our small living room. We all get together here and watch Flavor of Love! We love flavor of love!" I laughed and said "really?" because I thought she was joking. I guessed wrong. I was cut that day.

[LucyKKG]

Originally Posted by DDDlady

On the first day of recruitment we take tours at every house. While on a tour at the XYZ house, our group walks past a little room that had a TV in it. The girl who was taking me on the tour says, " This is our small living room. We all get together here and watch Flavor of Love! We love flavor of love!" I laughed and said "really?" because I thought she was joking. I guessed wrong. I was cut that day.

Hahah that's really funny. I have a few sisters who were obsessed with that show.

[TinyDancer98]

At one of the sororities I visited, somehow the conversation with my rusher became one big (unintentional) trainwreck. The conversation was lagging and the girl seemed a little shy or maybe disinterested- in any case, I tried to make conversation but the first thing I thought to ask about was the time commitment involved. I didn't realize until she answered and got this look about her that it sounded as if I wasn't willing to put in any time! She had mentioned something about other activities so I jumped on that, and said I was just asking about scheduling because I knew a few sisters through dance and other organizations.. she got this look on her face and I realized that she thought I was just name-dropping. I realized I was just making things worse... there was this awkward pause, and there were a few people talking just next to us about something I could relate to- so desperately I kind of dragged the two of us into that conversation, not realizing that I was messing up their rotations and totally creeping out the sisters in the process. I was so glad to leave!

A friend of mine, who went through recruitment with me, ended up joining the other chapter that I preffed at, also went to pref at another sorority. She was quite skeptical of Greek life at the time, and ended up laughing all through their pref ceremony... needless to say, she did not receive a bid to that chapter! One of my sisters came through recruitment not to join a sorority, but to join ADPi; at each other sorority, she introduced herself: "Hi, I'm XXXXX and I'm joining ADPi". She is a force to be reckoned with, but she is a wonderful sister and one of the strongest members of our chapter.

[lovespink88]

Ohh!! I thought of another... At one chapter I visited during open house, the PNMs were seated in folding chairs while sisters of that chapter were kneeling on the floor in front of us. Well, when I was getting ready, I way miscalculated how long it would take me to get ready, so I ended up not having time to shave my legs. It had been about 4 days since I last shaved, and I have somewhat darker hair on my legs. However, I figured it was not noticeable unless your head was like a foot away from my legs, so I wore capris anyways. I had not anticipated that we would be sitting higher up than our rushers, so unfortunately, the poor girls I talked to had my gross legs pretty much in her face... I was so embarassed!

[ellebud]

This is my daughter's story. It was the night before Pref and my daughter was at the house she wanted to join. Everything was going perfectly: The President of the house came over to say hi and hug her...a good friend from high school came over to say hi...and then she went on a house tour with a member that she didn't know but they had their major in common. While passing a bulletin board that had lots of pictures of the members at social activities the sister said to my daughter that she hated parties...hated getting a date to them...hated dressing for them...and especially hated getting a date. My daughter had a bunch of guy friends and said that she would be delighted to introduce her to them. (remember: same major). The girl got this funny look on her face and said, "I hate dating." My daughter paused a thought of a variety of reasons why this girl would "hate" dating...from the obvious of a recent breakup to ...something else. My daughter picked the reason that involved a recent breakup...and said something about she understood that it can be difficult to date again after a breakup...the girl stared at my daughter like she was a moron and then turned purple. The member had slipped and sort of "came out." My daughter called me from the car and said, "I'm done."..and she was.

[ellebud]

Please note: I did not mean to infer that it is "funny" that this young woman almost/did/kind of come out to my daughter. It was puzzling and sad that the other girl had to be so secretive about who she was. The funny part was that my daughter just called and said, "I'm done." and that she called it so clearly.

[BabyPiNK_FL]

^^^That makes me kinda mad. If she didn't want to get into such a sensitive subject she shouldn't have focused on how much she "hated dating". What other response was she hoping for? A nod and a smile? Your daughter was just trying to be sympathetic and helpful. If you don't want to discuss something, don't bring it up!

[ellebud]

I agree. I suspect that the girl didn't mean to say what she did. And, when she realized that she had "come out" she had a panic attack. (Would my daughter refer to this incident had she pledged? No. She is a wonderful ear/secret keeper. And still won't repeat "secrets" told to her in middle school.) My daughter's insight to the situation was, unfortunately, right on. She didn't get invited to Prefs and dropped out of rush.

Oh, and since they were in the same major...She avoided my daughter constantly. When she made an announcement that she "desperately" needed some notes from a class that my daughter was also taking she didn't call my daughter to get them DESPITE another kid (a guy) who told her that my daughter not only had the notes, but they were the best he had seen.

Sidenote: We saw the girl at graduation. She had chopped off all her hair. I asked my daughter if she had been ill (chemo or aloplecia (?spelling)) and she said simply, "no."

[AlphaXi_Husky]

When I went through Recruitment the PNMs weren't told what to expect regarding door chants, talking with different people (ie rotation), etc. After visiting a couple chapters where the same pattern was followed - a girl picks you up, you talk to her, then someone else comes, the first girl leaves, and you talk to the second girl, etc etc - I thought I knew what was going on.

I went to one chapter where, as at the other chapters, one girl picked me up at the door and we started talking. A couple minutes in another girl came over and started talking to me, at which point I said bye to the first girl. Except she didn't leave. I thought maybe she had to hang around for a couple extra minutes or didn't hear me, so after a couple more minutes I said goodbye again. Except she still didn't leave, the other girl did. Obviously they were doing a sort of floating rotation, which I had no idea about. I was not invited back to that chapter.

[violetpretty]

Originally Posted by AlphaXi_Husky

When I went through Recruitment the PNMs weren't told what to expect regarding door chants, talking with different people (ie rotation), etc. After visiting a couple chapters where the same pattern was followed - a girl picks you up, you talk to her, then someone else comes, the first girl leaves, and you talk to the second girl, etc etc - I thought I knew what was going on.

I went to one chapter where, as at the other chapters, one girl picked me up at the door and we started talking. A couple minutes in another girl came over and started talking to me, at which point I said bye to the first girl. Except she didn't leave. I thought maybe she had to hang around for a couple extra minutes or didn't hear me, so after a couple more minutes I said goodbye again. Except she still didn't leave, the other girl did. Obviously they were doing a sort of floating rotation, which I had no idea about. I was not invited back to that chapter.

I don't know what I would do if I were the active talking to the PNM! I was the total opposite. My first party of the first round, two actives were transitioning me and I was a little too dense to understand what was going on.

[AL♥]

I have two! First, my not-so-fun one. I was invited back to Sigma Delta Tau's pref night. I was so, SO nervous; I remember standing with my group, waiting for my RoCo in the student center (not all the chapters have houses, we have recruitment in rooms in the student center), trying to stop my hands from shaking so the sisters wouldn't think I was on drugs or something. As it turned out, I blew it before they got a chance to notice I was twitching like a boiling lobster, because the very first thing I said to the sister who greeted me was, "I am so happy to be back at STD -- STD -- SDT!" I started apologizing immediately, I was so mortified. The sister was a sweetheart about it and just smiled at my spaz attack, but I pretty much knew from there I was done. I swear, for the rest of that semester I could not see a girl in SDT letters without blushing.

This one's a happier story. My roommate freshman year swears she was cut because of this. Her family's from southern Cyprus, and her then-boyfriend's is from Greece. They dated all through high school, and the summer after graduating, got each other's initials tattooed in Greek. His are ALP, and she got it on her neck. Usually, she wears her hair up, and she does have really thick, dark hair, so she figured leaving her hair down would cover it. But one of our RoCos got a glimpse of part of it and freaked out, thinking it was an ADPi tattoo. We covered it with makeup after that, but ADPi cut her before pref night, and at our school you can only go to 2 pref parties max. As it turned out, she was invited back to DG's pref party and got a bid from them, I KNOW she loves her sorority, and it's really cute how much she loves to tell the story of how, in a way, a tattoo of her ex-bf's initials led her to DG!