Full frills vs no frills bid days

[33girl]

Originally Posted by shadokat

So I know it's against every NPC rule, but nobody had booze on bid day?

You know I did, lol.

I think a lot of places still do, it’s just delayed a week or so. Which is really not a bad idea because if you do have women uncertain about where they ended up (not to mention if most of your pledges are first semester freshmen who know the people they met in rush and that’s it) probably the last place you want them to immediately be is around boys and beer.

[33girl]

Oh, and obviously you couldn’t do this with too large of a pledge class unless you split the sorority into multiple groups, but our pledges didn’t have any collective event or run to the groups - the sorority members went to the new pledges’ different dorms/apartments and picked them up to take them to the bid day festivities. I can see where this would be a no go now because of safety factors and I’m sure it was annoying as hell for non Greeks since it was ALL OVER campus, but I think this way was a lot easier for all involved. Doing everything in public where you can see if someone is disappointed with their bid or if one sorority has an appreciably smaller class than the rest seems like a recipe for lots of potential hurt feelings. At least if a sorority you didn’t want came to your door you could get upset in private - less embarrassing for both sides. It would lessen the excitement, but I think it would be better to know where you are running before you are less than 50 feet away.

[KSUViolet06]

Originally Posted by 33girl

You know I did, lol.

I think a lot of places still do, it’s just delayed a week or so. Which is really not a bad idea because if you do have women uncertain about where they ended up (not to mention if most of your pledges are first semester freshmen who know the people they met in rush and that’s it) probably the last place you want them to immediately be is around boys and beer.

Same for my school. Bid Day is a Sunday usually so the first opportunity anyone really has to go out or do anything like that is the Thursday of that week. I have never heard of anyone going out that Sunday night. Because tired.