Recruitment with all the Frills?

[AlphaXi_Husky]

I joined in the late 1990s, and by that time some of the frills had been cut down (like covering entire rooms with butcher paper and balloons). But we were still pretty frilly.

- Matching outfits for each day (these were purchased in bulk ahead of time by the Recruitment team and included shoes and nametags)
- Door songs/chants/stacks for each entrance and exit (the first three rounds). These involved not only singing but hand gestures and lots of head bobbing/hair flipping.
- An entrance and exit formation (with song) on the lawn for Preference
- Flowers, flowers, and more flowers, for each round
- Second round was house tours, and there were themes set ahead of time for each room
- Entertainment the first round (which was a song a small set of members did that replaced sorority themes/words for the actual lyrics, and involved choreography/dancing)
- A skit the third round, which involved decorating part of a room and usually had props (I specifically remember pool floaties one year)
- Each round had a themed drink and preference included food. Typically this was several different types of appetizers (I think up to 6?). Some chapters did do personalized things, like writing names in chocolate on a plate. I think the closest my chapter got was having special cookies made in our colors.

Some of this still goes on at my campus (one round of door songs/change/stacks, some pref food and formations on the lawn), but it's a LOT tamer then it used to be.