Door chants

[KKGAlumDGMom]

I had never seen or heard of the hair flipping thing until someone posted a video from DG at USC the other day on another thread. The video was shot at night and all I could see was the hair being flipped like crazy from within the house. It took me a minute to figure out what was going on haha. Door chants were never done when I went thru rush. This year's recruitment (Jan. at the school my daughter attends) will be my daughter's first as an active. She said they've already been practicing and that her knees are sore as she is small and therefore one of the ones kneeling at the bottom.

[BraveMaroon]

Oh, the door stacks! I rushed 19 years ago, and I can remember chants from houses that cut me after first round.

They're catchy.

Of course as a rushee, at house one on day one - I nearly came out of my skin!

We practiced walking backwards into the house, waving, and then starting the goodbye chant, but not before crossing the threshold of the door, lest we get fined.

S-I-G-M-A K-A-P-P-A
Sigma Kappa, you'll agree
Is the best sorority!

[Psi U MC Vito]

Channeling k_slut right now, but http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymKLymvwD2U

[dymonz4me]

I can't speak for XO at FSU, but I know Alpha Gamma Delta at Florida State does.

Originally Posted by XOtillIdieO

I'm curious to know which chapters/schools do door chants?

We don't do them at Florida State, so when I first heard of them from friends at different colleges, I was flabbergasted. I looked up youtube videos of some and was even more stunned! What exactly is the point of door chants?

[tigerivy]

We used to do very elaborate "walk outs" at Mizzou. It would take about 7 minutes to do the chants and the walk outs. There were choreographed skips, marches, runs, claps, etc.
This year they decided to do away with the walk outs and we are just doing door chants.
Sorry I don't have any videos!

[PeppyGPhiB]

The hair flipping thing looks stupid to me, and it's really distracting. As a PNM I'd rather see smiling, singing faces instead of heads snapping like they belong in Wayne's World.

[KDCat]

I always thought door chants were really silly, but they really do get your energy up for the party. It also gets the PNMs going.

[ChioLu]

All the chapters do door chants at Tulsa University: Chi O, Tri Delt, Phi Mu (sadly, chapter closed), KD, Kappa, DG, Theta -- the order on sorority row, from closest to campus, to furthest.

At the end of day, every house had to shut their front door within a certain time of the last party being over (within minutes or it was a Rush infraction).

But, Panhell said NUTHIN' about windows! Since Chi O was the closest to campus and all the PNMs (or "Rushees" at that time) had to pass by our house to get back to the dorms, we would open up the windows on the north-side of the house and sing as loudly as we could so the Chi O song was the last thing they heard.

We were always sneaky like that ...

[kaeb]

Originally Posted by Low C Sharp

the chapters and PNMs are happy

haha I don't know if I'd say that. We didn't have to do them this year, but I know our girls wanted to do one parties' worth of hair-flipping... not however many parties there ended up being plus all the practice that needs to go into it! I don't think the actives love doing it, but it's the status quo. From what I understand, it's kind of physically painful.

[thetalady]

Originally Posted by kaeb

haha I don't know if I'd say that. We didn't have to do them this year, but I know our girls wanted to do one parties' worth of hair-flipping... not however many parties there ended up being plus all the practice that needs to go into it! I don't think the actives love doing it, but it's the status quo. From what I understand, it's kind of physically painful.

Good Lord!! I have never seen this hair flipping phenomenon before!

Hair flippers at USC Alpha Phi chapter

[Texas_DG]

University of Texas at Austin did them. (No hair flipping that I remember) Scared the beejesus out of me at the first house I went to - they were banging their blinds/shutters, screaming, etc. Yikes!

I can still chant so many of them and I can still remember being hoarse from practice my first year on the "other side." But, I also remember walking across campus and randomly getting someone else's sorority chant stuck in my head!

With a D, with an E, with an L, T, A - with a G,A,M,M,A - a Delta Gamma, that's what I am-a.

Chi Omega, Chi, Chi, Chi-Omega, Hello, we're glad you're here, we hope you go Chi-O.

Pi, Pi Beta, Pi, Pi, Pi Beta Phi

Theta, theta, theta, theta. It's good to be a, got to be a, Kappa Alpha Theta.

We only did the door chants for Open House, and 1st round. For skit night and pref we sang, but no chanting.

ETA: Yikes! After viewing the hair flipping that seems crazy! We could NOT cross the threshold of our doors when we were chanting - rush fines! We piled up/used risers, etc. to fill up the door, but we couldn't be outside the doors at all.

[lovespink88]

The hair flipping terrifies me.

Originally Posted by Low C Sharp

In contrast, here's an example from SMU sans hair flipping.

This is what our door chants are like. I love our chapter house because we have 3 sets of french doors next to one another that we fill completely. It looks really awesome, I wish I had a pic/video!