Social Clubs at Mississippi University for Women

[PhoenixAzul]

Originally posted by Rio_Kohitsuji
....and the problem with this is what?

/rant
These kind of comments tick me off. I mean hell, if they want to do it, let them and don't think they are any less just because they do things differently from you. I know for a fact that if I posted pictures of what goes on here people on GC would be bitching and moaning about how it's hazing or just plain stupid. I know my organization has matching jackets....I know of many NPHC orgs who (OMIGAWD) have them too!! *sarcasm* Oh, we have paddles..and make our damn pledges carry them too, ohh, and there are planty of rules along w/the paddles also. Eye patches? Heh, I had our pledges wear "decorated" pirate hats...ahh, that was hilarious. It was simply beautiful. I'm so taking pics of pledging this ysear of all the orgs...should be fun. /end rant

Heheh, I see your pirate hat and raise you hawaiian shirts. I still love, cherish, and wear my Hawaiian shirt, and I handed down the Flamingo-print hawaiian shirt my mom made me in high school to my little, who is now enjoying a love for the hideous pink birds.

[squirrely girl]

... and for that matter, i've got some super cute princess crowns from my pledging...

- marissa

[tunatartare]

Originally posted by squirrely girl
... and for that matter, i've got some super cute princess crowns from my pledging...

- marissa

Awww, I'm jealous. I wish I had something fun like that from pledging. I used to have a tiara (not from pledging, but still), but my pledge sister took it away from me because she said I enjoyed myself too much in it.

[squirrely girl]

hah hah! my big had a thing with giving me tiaras - i got one for big/little, one for my 21st, another random one in there and i love them all (there in a memory box at home!)

- marissa

[tunatartare]

no fair, some people get all the fun

[barbiegrl88]

YAYYYY I'm a troubie newbie aka (Troubadour with the Triangles)!! Pledge Class 2006

[RogueGirlPC99]

I attended MUW from 1999-2000, and was a Rogue pledge in the fall of '99 and an Active for my last three semesters there. I really, REALLY wanted to be a BlackList, and still have dreams about that now!

The Two Years (Blacklist, Maskers, Jesters, and Exodus) call their pledges, rather than you going through a formal rush. They are called Honorary Societies. Sophomores usually go through an end-of-the-year thing called "Sophomore-Junior Rivalry" which is one of the ways girls can express their interest in the club. But usually, before that point at the end of your sophomore year, the current (new!) actives know which girls are interested in pledging their clubs.

The W has very very different "sorority" culture, I think because it was sheltered from other universities by virtue of being a women's only school. The social clubs have some very strange little pledging practices, which honestly comes very close to real hazing. Rogue pledges had to wear a ball and chain, which was a wooden ball painted black attached to a rather long bead chain. We wore this on our right hand, and because the chain was so long, we kept our hand spread to keep the thing from falling off. In this way, it was a constant, conscious thing -- you never forgot about Rogue. I liked that an awful lot. The Revelers, another four year club, had to wear a white glove on their right hand that must never get dirty, so they would hold their hands in the air at about shoulder height. They weren't allowed to acknowledge that they were wearing the glove, which made for lots of funny conversations. "Do y'all have to wear those to church, even?" "Wear what?" (These are public things, so I don't feel too bad sharing them on a public forum.)

There's also a society called the Hottentots (a three year, sophomore junior and senior), but I believe they're now more an academic honor society. I'm pretty sure they're co-ed now. But when my mother went to the W in 1973, the Hottentots were also quite mysterious, and did a "wiggle" across campus in the dark of night, sort of a conga line, and they would loudly whisper "Hot-en-totssssss!"

*grins* It was a fun time. All three of my younger sisters are Alpha Delta Pi; none of them went to the W. Kinda saddens me, but at the same time, it's fun to share all that with just my mother.

crl, model pledge, pc 99.

[KSUViolet06]

Am I the only one who is reminded of BrandiRae (KDLady00) when I read this thread?

I'm pretty sure she claimed to be a member of one of these clubs at MUW, before transfering and joining KD at Ole Miss, lol.

[NinjaPoodle]

Thanks.

[NinjaPoodle]

I don't know. I can find out though.

[NutBrnHair]

I have 3 friends who are/were alumnae from the "W."

One, Roselyn Dabbs, who was a junior transfer to Ole Miss, joined Tau Chapter of Chi Omega, and later became our National President. Another who graduated in the 1950s and another who was a Black Lister from the 1990s. All relayed fond memories.