Retro Fraternity Rush -totally 80's - Page 3

sigtau305 · #31 07-03-2007, 10:38 AM

More Please.

UGAalum94 · #32 07-03-2007, 11:13 AM

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Originally Posted by sangers

It's kind of fun to hear a rush story from a guy's perspective... definitely interesting!

Have you all noticed that there seem to be more guy generally reading and commenting on recruitment stories lately?

TSteven · #33 07-03-2007, 12:11 PM

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Originally Posted by AlphaGamUGAAlum

Have you all noticed that there seem to be more guys generally reading and commenting on recruitment stories lately?

No, not really.

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Originally Posted by BSUPhiSig'92

I felt like things were going really well...but then they would take a SHOCKING turn!

Is there a goat involved?

BSUPhiSig'92 · #34 07-03-2007, 12:45 PM

The next night, Wednesday, was a mandatory "night off" from rush for everyone. I was pretty happy things were going well with rush, and had started working on getting my parents "warmed up" to the idea. "I'm rushing, but I'm only interested in one fraternity - annnd I probably won't get a bid, buuut if I do..."

So I decided that night that I wanted to attend a lecture that I had heard about and went to the student center at 7pm. It was in a big conference room in the student center, and there were at least 200-250 people in the audience. Everything was fine until about 30 minutes into the lecture I started feeling kinda...funny. Not funny ha-ha, but funny...bad. I really began to feel nauseous, and started wondering how I could gracefully exit this room full of people (I was sitting near the front and not by the aisle -DUMBASS!).

So while I've been trying to figure out how to discreetly make a graceful exit, my digestive track has approached a level of DEFCON 4. I make a mad (non-discreet) dash out of the room, hand over my mouth in the international symbol of "OH GOD I"M GOING TO HURL!!!"

I make it just to the men's room before heaving my dinner, lunch, and spleen up.

I take a few minutes to recover, wash my face, and decide I'd better start back to my dorm room.

I threw up 4 more times on the way back to the dorm.

I threw up 17 times total that night, to the point I was dry heaving.

My jackass, child-molesting RA (there is another story there) tried to write me up for being drunk since I was hurling loudly in the bathroom. My roommate, a perfect 4.0-never missed a class in his life- student, fled our dorm room and slept next door, terrified he would catch the bubonic plague that I so obviously had.

The next morning, when the BSU Health Center (affectionately known as the "Death Center") opened, my next door neigbor Mike drove me over. As soon as the doctor saw me, he ordered me quarrantined in the infirmary.
They let me call my parents to let them know, and gave me some medicine that knocked my ass out.

I woke up five hours later, and my parents were there. How fast did you drive? I asked my father, knowing that my mom would have had to call my dad from work, met him at home and driven straight up from St. Louis.
Normally it took five hours just to make the drive from St. Louis!

So, to make a long story short, it turned out I had some strain of highly contagious stomach flu. They isolated me to prevent an outbreak, but it was too late. They kept me in the infirmary for three days, meaning that I had missed rush.

I figured my chances of getting a bid now were pretty much zilch.

AGDee · #35 07-03-2007, 12:51 PM

Ya know.. details are great in most retro recruitment threads, but in this one, they could have been a little less graphic...

If I recall correctly, at the health service on our campus, if someone came in throwing up, you were given a pregnancy test. Hmm, maybe that was just the girls. If you went in with a sore throat, headache, congestion or fatigue, you got a mono test. yeah, every time you went, pregnant or mono.. those were the options!

LegallyBrunette · #36 07-03-2007, 01:26 PM

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Originally Posted by BSUPhiSig'92

I threw up 17 times total that night, to the point I was dry heaving.

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Did not see that one coming. Certainly one of the least savory twists in the retro-thread movement. Ugh.

BSUPhiSig'92 · #37 07-03-2007, 01:33 PM

[QUOTEDid not see that one coming. Certainly one of the least savory twists in the retro-thread movement. Ugh.][/QUOTE]

I said it was SHOCKING!

Not everyone's stories are all about cute outfits and finger sandwiches. Lol

BetteDavisEyes · #38 07-03-2007, 01:39 PM

If your story involved finger sandwiches & cute outfits, I sure as hell wouldn't be reading it. I like fraternity rush stories much more. I like the different perspectives that a man offers whereas the girl stories tend to have too much "what should I wear?" "will XYZ like me?" and "It was so moving I cried!"

Keep going! I want to hear what happened now that you completely got sick & missed rush.

FYI, glad to see you recovered though. Those stomach flu's are nasty! I've been there and it's not fun.

LegallyBrunette · #39 07-03-2007, 01:40 PM

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Originally Posted by BSUPhiSig'92

I said it was SHOCKING!

Not everyone's stories are all about cute outfits and finger sandwiches. Lol

Touche.
Update, please.

FuzzieAlum · #40 07-03-2007, 01:47 PM

Oh man, and I was eating lunch as I read this, too.

BSUPhiSig'92 · #41 07-03-2007, 03:42 PM

It's a good thing my boss is on vacation this week...

So the story continues...

I finally get to go back to my dorm room late Saturday afternoon. I'm still feeling incredibly puny, but fortunately I'm no longer sick. My roommate has by this time gone back home to his parent's (he was from about an hour away), because he came down with the same thing after being in the same room with me for less than an hour!

Now back in the day (before the earth cooled and the dinosaurs came), at good old BSU, every dorm room had a little box in the wall that housed a (rotary) phone that was shared with the room next door. When I came back, Mike and Bill, my next door neighbors gave me the message that "Some guy named Brad from Buick called like 12 times while you were gone."

Well, I knew it could be either good news or bad news, so I called Brad at the Buick house. Fortunately it was good news. "No one knew what happened to you, and we were afraid you dropped out of rush when you didn't accept your invitation."

I explained to Brad what had happened and that yes, I was still very much interested in becoming a part of Buick. We agreed that tomorrow, if I felt better he would pick me up and I would come down to the house in the afternoon.

I later went down to the lobby to check my mailbox. Inside were the rush invitations I had received for Friday and Saturday's events. There were invitations from Buick and Porsche for both days, but there were also two invitations from BMW! That absolutely floored me. The house where I got snubbed by an active on round robin, and then hadn't returned to once invited me to their invite only parties???

AlwaysSAI · #42 07-03-2007, 04:03 PM

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Originally Posted by BSUPhiSig'92

I make it just to the men's room before heaving my dinner, lunch, and spleen up.

I take a few minutes to recover, wash my face, and decide I'd better start back to my dorm room.

I threw up 4 more times on the way back to the dorm.

I threw up 17 times total that night, to the point I was dry heaving.

See, I was always the kid that was disgusted by the puke, but then also so mesmorized by the puke that I couldn't look away. Gross, I know.

Great story!!

Whew, you really got lucky there getting those invites. Except, I too, would wonder about BMW...weren't they the guys with the popped up collars?

More!

AGDee · #43 07-03-2007, 07:11 PM

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Originally Posted by BSUPhiSig'92

Now back in the day (before the earth cooled and the dinosaurs came), at good old BSU, every dorm room had a little box in the wall that housed a (rotary) phone that was shared with the room next door.

We had those at Eastern Michigan too. They *really* impeded privacy when you had a visitor, didn't they?

Ocalagirl · #44 07-03-2007, 08:12 PM

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Originally Posted by BSUPhiSig'92

So while I've been trying to figure out how to discreetly make a graceful exit, my digestive track has approached a level of DEFCON 4. I make a mad (non-discreet) dash out of the room, hand over my mouth in the international symbol of "OH GOD I"M GOING TO HURL!!!"

I make it just to the men's room before heaving my dinner, lunch, and spleen up.

I take a few minutes to recover, wash my face, and decide I'd better start back to my dorm room.

I threw up 4 more times on the way back to the dorm.

I threw up 17 times total that night, to the point I was dry heaving.

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Originally Posted by AlwaysSAI

See, I was always the kid that was disgusted by the puke, but then also so mesmorized by the puke that I couldn't look away. Gross, I know.

I'm the kid feeling bad for you, yet laughing when I realize you are alright. It could be I was laughing too at your funny descriptions of how you puked. If you had just said I puked it wouldn't have been as funny.

I too like reading the fraternity rush stories. To me it is so funny how different the rush/recruitment system is sooo different between fraternities and sororities. I wonder what would happen if fraternities did structerered recruitment and sororities did fraternity style rushing. That would be interesting

More Please!!!

AlwaysSAI · #45 07-03-2007, 08:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Ocalagirl

I wonder what would happen if fraternities did structerered recruitment and sororities did fraternity style rushing. That would be interesting

They tried this at UNCG last year for the first time, I believe. I don't think the fraternities wanted to do it, I think it was forced upon by OGL.

I have a few friends in the chapters that participated and I was told that it was a huge disaster. But, from what I can gather going on at freshman orientation they are doing it again. This time, in the fall, I believe though. Maybe it will turn out better this time.