Rush - What to NOT do or say - Page 26

Scrubadub · #1 01-17-2009, 02:56 PM

Don't forget to cover your mouth when you sneeze. When I was going through recruitment, the PNM next to me sneezed on one of the sorority members. If looks could kill!

libramunoz · #2 01-17-2009, 03:18 PM

I know this might sound crazy, but for the Love of God, when you sit down in a dress, skirt, or pants, make sure to keep your legs crossed! In other words, don't sit down and sit with your legs wide open for the entire world to see. If you enjoy wearing flaming lime green and yellow with a picture of pokemon underwear, fine, but it doesn't want to mean EVERYBODY wants to see them same drawers too!
We were taught to sit with our ankles crossed, "church lady" style. Just a caution. Have seen it before--it ain't pretty!

libramunoz · #3 01-17-2009, 03:19 PM

And while speaking of pants, if you're wearing a suit, please make sure, that when you sit down, there are no "strings" showing to speak of. Make sure that your shirt is tucked in or covers your...ahem..."arrears" in ALL areas!

libramunoz · #4 01-17-2009, 03:24 PM

Oh and I almost forgot, for the Love of a parrot eating a cracker, please DO NOT wear gaudy or big jumbo sized hoop earrings. If you can take that same hoop and use it for a bracelet, it's too big and inappropriate to wear. If all you have is gaudy earrings, borrow some from a friend or go to Dollar General/Family Dollar/99 Cent store and get a pair of cheap tail earrings that are smaller than the size of your fingernail. Wear them for that day, week, whatever. But just don't show up with the hula hoops or trinket, scuse me, gaudy earrings.

Jill1228 · #5 01-17-2009, 06:54 PM

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Originally Posted by libramunoz

Oh and I almost forgot, for the Love of a parrot eating a cracker, please DO NOT wear gaudy or big jumbo sized hoop earrings. If you can take that same hoop and use it for a bracelet, it's too big and inappropriate to wear. If all you have is gaudy earrings, borrow some from a friend or go to Dollar General/Family Dollar/99 Cent store and get a pair of cheap tail earrings that are smaller than the size of your fingernail. Wear them for that day, week, whatever. But just don't show up with the hula hoops or trinket, scuse me, gaudy earrings.

You mean "door knocker" earrings

33girl · #6 01-18-2009, 04:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Jill1228

You mean "door knocker" earrings

This made me think of the Teenage Love Affair video and now that song is stuck in my head. Thanks a lot.

KSUViolet06 · #7 01-18-2009, 05:23 PM

For those of you who are making recruitment threads:

Everybody seems to want to try and be "brutally honest" these days.

Cool, but don't be so eager to entertain people on Greek Chat and have the most "brutally honest" or "juiciest" recruitment thread that you end up writing stuff that could potentially ruin your recruitment if a member from your school saw it.

Stuff you post in your recruitment thread does have the potential to bite you in the butt, so to speak.

Yes, it's funny to some GCers that you "think *insert code name here* were "snotty fake, stuck up bitches who wore the ugliest polos you have ever seen."

But if a member of *insert code name here* were to see this and figure out you were talking about her chapter, that could end up affecting your recruitment in a negative way. If she felt like spreading the word to other chapters on campus, that could REALLY end up hurting you.

Yes, we love a good recruitment story, but it is FAR MORE important to us that you have a successful recruitment and end up getting a bid.

freshie4 · #8 01-22-2009, 12:05 AM

I'm a freshman this year, and im nervious about rush. what to wear, what to do, & what not to do. normally im a nice out spoken girl, but under pressure i tend to go mute. if one knows of someone in sorority is good to say you know them? I'm just such a mess. Rush doesnt start for a couple of weeks i think.

GammaPhi88 · #9 01-22-2009, 12:14 AM

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Originally Posted by freshie4

I'm a freshman this year, and im nervious about rush. what to wear, what to do, & what not to do. normally im a nice out spoken girl, but under pressure i tend to go mute. if one knows of someone in sorority is good to say you know them? I'm just such a mess. Rush doesnt start for a couple of weeks i think.

Do a search, or just read this thread. It would help also to do a search of your schools name; someone might have posted some info.

Read this thread as well: http://www.greekchat.com/gcforums/sh...ad.php?t=54403

KSUViolet06 · #10 01-22-2009, 12:19 AM

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Originally Posted by freshie4

I'm a freshman this year, and im nervious about rush. what to wear, what to do, & what not to do. normally im a nice out spoken girl, but under pressure i tend to go mute. if one knows of someone in sorority is good to say you know them? I'm just such a mess. Rush doesnt start for a couple of weeks i think.

Try not to "name drop."

Name dropping is asking the girl who is talking to you, "Do you know Becky Smith?"

If Becky Smith is in her sorority, chances are good that she knows her.

If there's someone you know who is like your BFF since 3rd grade, then it's fine to do that once.

But repeated "name dropping" is really annoying. The girls are trying to get to know YOU, not who you know in their chapter.

freshie4 · #11 01-22-2009, 12:21 AM

Thanks! all of you are really taking extra pressure off this for me and i appreciate it!

freshie4 · #12 01-22-2009, 12:35 AM

Do rushers ever ask rushees about community service ideas? like if they had to come up with a way to get donations for their philantropy? If they don't is it a good idea to tell them if you have an ideas on that topic?

KSUViolet06 · #13 01-22-2009, 12:39 AM

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Originally Posted by freshie4

Do rushers ever ask rushees about community service ideas? like if they had to come up with a way to get donations for their philantropy? If they don't is it a good idea to tell them if you have an ideas on that topic?

This isn't generally something you'll be asked.

ASTalumna06 · #14 01-30-2009, 11:21 AM

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Originally Posted by freshie4

Do rushers ever ask rushees about community service ideas? like if they had to come up with a way to get donations for their philantropy? If they don't is it a good idea to tell them if you have an ideas on that topic?

Please don't do this.

Usually, members of a sorority won't ask for your ideas as to how to contribute to their philanthropy, or for any other specific ideas concerning their chapter. If for some reason they do, give ideas, but without suggesting any major ones that might conflict with their current processes and procedures.

We had a PNM once who came to recruitment events, made it a point to tell the sisters that she had done research on the sorority, and then said that she had a ton of new ideas for the chapter. She mentioned philanthropies she'd like to do, and in some cases, she gave specific examples of how we'd help out.

When you're not even a part of Greek life, when you know little to nothing about how a chapter operates, and you've only met the members a few times, you don't start telling them how to run their organization.

33girl · #15 01-30-2009, 09:20 PM

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Originally Posted by ASTalumna06

We had a PNM once who came to recruitment events, made it a point to tell the sisters that she had done research on the sorority, and then said that she had a ton of new ideas for the chapter. She mentioned philanthropies she'd like to do, and in some cases, she gave specific examples of how we'd help out.

When you're not even a part of Greek life, when you know little to nothing about how a chapter operates, and you've only met the members a few times, you don't start telling them how to run their organization.

Not to mention that it's kind of creepy and obsessive to think that someone who wasn't even a member spent her time thinking this stuff up for them. If your parent worked for [name sorority philanthropy here] and you remember things from them doing it, that's one thing, but of course that's the exception not the rule.