Friendly Prank Ideas

[knight_shadow]

Originally Posted by AlphaFrog

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Sometimes, you just want to do something for somebody without ulterior motives.

I've just attributed this to IFC/NPC vs. non-IFC/non-NPC. The only times that we received "OMG COOKIES!" were when people wanted votes in student elections. Aside from that, it would just seem weird.

When we had our on-campus house, we would never expect sorority women to do our chores/yardwork.

[ree-Xi]

This world is small. Be careful of retaliation in the form of pranks, university sanctions or broken laws.

[DubaiSis]

I think playfully pranking the fraternities is fine. However, defacing the structure of their house isn't cool. No, it probably won't do any permanent damage, but it does cross the line from fun to damage. But then I'm a fun sucker. If a fraternity tpd our yard I'd be furious.

The only thing they really did on my campus was the fraternities would kidnap the composite and make the sorority come serenade them to get it back. But sometimes that would get out of hand and they wouldn't admit they had it and it would get ugly. Or a not very nearby fraternity would do it and then getting it back was a HUGE cluster.

And doing something nice for a fraternity is nice, but there's also a fine line to creepy or pathetic. If my chapter had done any of the nice things listed above, we'd have been laughed off the campus. Maybe it's a local culture thing, but we were much further from the TV show Greek than that. And I'm assuming she meant PARTICIPATING in their philanthropy, not raising money for it. Doing their philanthropy for them would be SERIOUSLY creepy and pathetic.

[AlphaFrog]

Alright...I guess I'll just say that I'm glad I went to a strange university, where it was more common to come home to random flowers from a fraternity rather than your composite missing, and leave y'all to your pranks.

[knight_shadow]

Originally Posted by AlphaFrog

Alright...I guess I'll just say that I'm glad I went to a strange university, where it was more common to come home to random flowers from a fraternity rather than your composite missing, and leave y'all to your pranks.

You're taking this exchange WAAAY too seriously.

[AlphaFrog]

Originally Posted by knight_shadow

You're taking this exchange WAAAY too seriously.

Not really. Nothing much else going on and I'm avoiding working on the lien waivers I need to send out.

[DrPhil]

Hmmm. "Leave ya'll to your pranks" makes it seem as though AlphaFrog doesn't understand what some of us are saying.

No one is saying that pranks > nice things. We didn't really do pranks. Sororities and fraternities at the collegiate and graduate levels do nice things for each other all of the time. What is considered "nice" is what we're talking about here. You didn't just say "focus on bonding with the fraternities and doing nice things for each other," you made a list of things that you thought the good sorority women could do as if that's an objective standard. That's where the discussion lies.

For the record my chapter, as a collective, would've hated coming home to flowers from a fraternity. If the fraternity men knew us (and our friends in fraternities did) they knew that many of us weren't/still aren't flower women. Giving us flowers other than a Violet (to symbolize Delta) would be seen as a prank (LOL) or let us know that you just did what you assumed women would like. LOL.

[AlphaFrog]

You know, DrPhil, I get pretty tired of you telling me that I don't understand your crap. We obviously come from two different places on most things. Just because I have a different perspective, doesn't mean I don't understand what you are saying.

I realize that pranks and nice things don't have anything to do with eachother in this thread, other than the fact that I suggested examples of things that would have been normal on my campus as an alternative activity to pranks. My list was neither exhaustive, nor a "must do" to be "nice". As I said, things that happened on my campus, not necessarily something that would fly on all campuses. I'm not sure why this came to a debate of specific items, rather than intention. If the OP doesn't like my suggestions she would be free to fill in her own.

[DrPhil]

Originally Posted by AlphaFrog

You know, DrPhil, I get pretty tired of you telling me that I don't understand your crap.

I'm not the only one who sees irony here. I stopped reading here. LOL.

[33girl]

OK, what the fork is forking? I don't get it.

The balloons seem less like a prank than a fun girly thing, but chiseling a brick out? Hello, that can break nails.

Whatever happened to the old standbys - "borrowing" composites, tping trees etc? I'm pretty sad if they never thought of these.

[IrishLake]

Originally Posted by 33girl

OK, what the fork is forking? I don't get it.

The balloons seem less like a prank than a fun girly thing, but chiseling a brick out? Hello, that can break nails.

Whatever happened to the old standbys - "borrowing" composites, tping trees etc? I'm pretty sad if they never thought of these.

Sticking hundreds of plastic forks in their lawn or yard.

[DubaiSis]

I think the take away from this is that campuses are so vastly different that the definition of a cute prank vs obnoxious vandalism or nice versus creepy or bizarre is too relative to be helpful to anyone.

If the OP and her chapter are successfully doing pranks that are winning the hearts and minds of the fraternities, then great. But before you start dredging the bottom of the barrel of creative ideas, I'd make sure the guys are appreciating these things as cute and not annoying or obnoxious. And if this is anonymous, I'd drop the whole thing before it bites you in the ass.

[IrishLake]

The chapter I advise does a rake n run with the Delta Sig's every fall. They just knock on doors in town, or they'll rake the yards of other greek houses.

It was always a big deal for the 4 sororities at my alma mater to paint the PMD lions. They had stone lions outside of their front door, and it was always a big deal when someone was able to paint them without the brothers finding out about it until the next morning. But we also did nice things too, like make them baked goods, or invite them to the house for a meal. They did the same for us though, or would send flowers. that was for all the fraternities though, not just our "favorites."

A really HUGE deal back in the day was if a sister was able to steal a pledge pin from a new fraternity member. If the sorority was successful, for each pledge pin stolen, a keg of beer was owed. This has changed though, as the campus has gone dry and I don't think current students even know what a keg is.

[Gusteau]

Originally Posted by IrishLake

I don't think current students even know what a keg is.

Seriously? Where is this so I may educate these children?

/nothing to do with this thread

[Tulip86]

We invited a fraternity to a poolparty by putting hundreds of plastic cups of water in their hallways (as in door-to-door) while they were sleeping.