UF Rush - Page 4

ROWDYsister · #46 08-03-2002, 10:14 PM

Ranking sessions are when you meet with your group and you get a scantron and decide out of whom you've been invited back to where you're going to go. It's done after every round. You all just sit quietly while you fill them out, and that's it. It's not made public who you chose.

The way it works is that when you get to the room you are given a list of who invited you back for the next round and if you have more invites than the number of parties you have to cut. If you have just enough or less than the number of parties you go to them all.

Then the next day when it's time for the new round your Pi Chi gives you your schedule which shows who you chose and who chose you.

The door decorations you see are put up for girls after Bid Day to welcome them to the sorority. Alpha Chi has lyres, Theta has twin stars, Pi Phi has a heart with angel wings, etc. I didn't get mine last year and thought it was because I had an apartment, but my big swears she put it up. I guess it was some mean-spirited person who saw it and tore it down since my apt. was on the first floor and visible from the parking lot.

So this year I'm going to make one for myself to make up for it.

curlygirly · #47 08-03-2002, 10:40 PM

For preferentials, it says that the ranking session is at 9:20p...and the following day the "New member induction ceremony" is at 5p.....And when, in between that time, do you find out who you've gotten a bid from? (b.c then it says 6p "Bid Day" and "Pick up Invitations"...what exactly are all those events?

Also...on the UF Panhellenic page (www.ufpanhellenic.com), it says that Round 3 is 'video round'....what's that?

ahhh....I know i'm asking a zillion silly questions, but I guess it's just my way of trying to calm down my nerves since it's only a few weeks away!

wow....I keep looking at the schedule...and in the first two days we attend 19 parties

....I hope I won't get overwhelmed meeting so many people in such a short time!

Skchickie · #48 08-04-2002, 01:44 PM

basically what happens on bid day is you will all meet your pi chis at norman field, where you recieve your bid card, but won't be able to open it. your pichis will tell you when you can open it. All the girls open their bid cards together and then madness ensues! it's absoluetly insane. Girls running everywhere, screaming.....
Fun stuff.

Oh and video round is where you go back to the 6 (maybe 7, i forget) houses of your choice, and you watch a little video that they prepare for you about their sisterhood. Ours is gonna be killer!

Other schools call it "skit night" and usually act out the skits themselves.

ROWDYsister · #49 08-04-2002, 05:34 PM

Yup, SKchickie's right.

The New Member Induction Ceremony is a ceremony in the University Auditorium for all the girls. At that point you don't know which house you've been invited to, but just the fact that you're present means that you've been invited somewhere (b/c girls who do not receive bids get phone calls that morning). That's also the time when the Pi Chis reveal their affiliations.

The first round is super long, but in reality there aren't 19 parties. You'll go to 15 parties and have four lounges. During the lounges you just sit around in a lecture hall in Norman and hang out. So it'll be a nice break.

ps: the video round is awesome. All the videos brought me to tears...and they weren't even MY sisters!

curlygirly · #50 08-04-2002, 08:04 PM

oohh....hearing about all these things gets me even MORE exciting about rushing!! (thanks!) Now...about Bid Day....by that time, if you didn't get your first choice, but your second choice....can you decline it if you like?

or would you have to employ the suicide bid--bsaically saying that it's "either this sorority or not sorority"? Now if you didn't get a bid, you get a phonecall...so I'm guessing that there aren't many girls who don't get bids, b/c if not that would be too many phonecalls!

The thing on Norman Field....is that when the girls have to wake up super early in the morning? I remember hearing something about that last year.

aahhh....I'm so excited now!! ROWDYsister and SKchickie...it's all your fault! hehe

Now...are there 'local' sororities at UF? How do they recruit?

AZ-AlphaXi · #51 08-04-2002, 08:41 PM

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Originally posted by curlygirly
oohh....hearing about all these things gets me even MORE exciting about rushing!! (thanks!) Now...about Bid Day....by that time, if you didn't get your first choice, but your second choice....can you decline it if you like?

or would you have to employ the suicide bid--bsaically saying that it's "either this sorority or not sorority"? Now if you didn't get a bid, you get a phonecall...so I'm guessing that there aren't many girls who don't get bids, b/c if not that would be too many phonecalls!

If you get a bid from any chapter listed on your preference card, you are bound to that chapter for one year. If you decided to decline the bid, you are still bound for the one year period. So, the moral is, don't list any chapter on your preference card you won't accept a bid from.

SigKapSweetie · #52 08-04-2002, 10:33 PM

The early morning thing was one of the preliminary preferences where we recieved our invitations back to the houses for the next round; last year, it was at 6:30 in the morning. I rolled out of bed and went to the Florida gym in my pyjamas; the pi chis (rho chis then) were in their pj's too. This year, your earliest prelim pref (according to my info sheet) is 8:30; you guys lucked out! The thing on Norman doesn't start until 6pm on bid day. First, the pi chis tell which houses they're in. They drag it out as long as they can!

curlygirly · #53 08-04-2002, 10:36 PM

why did they change from being ro chis to pi chis? I've been wondering why the names were different, and I thought maybe I was just reading it wrong!

SigKapSweetie · #54 08-04-2002, 10:49 PM

Rho chi is the name of an honorary pharmacy fraternity that was established some years after Panhellenic chose Rho Chi to represent our rho chis. However, this pharmacy frat got mad and demanded that Panhel change their name to something else. I don't really think Panhel should have agreed to do it, but they did it, they're Pi Chis, there we have it.

We had Rho Chi first! Oh, well, if Panhel had wanted my opinion on it I assume they would have asked me before they did it.

curlygirly · #55 08-04-2002, 10:57 PM

oh...that's so retarded! But kinda ironic cuz just a little while ago I was browsing through all the UF organizations that have websites through UF...and I saw the Rho Chi one. I thought that it was weird that they both have that name!

SigKapSweetie · #56 08-04-2002, 11:00 PM

We need more greek letters! Either that, or we need to start using 4 letters. Although, I'm hesitant to recommend anything that's being done by Sigma (stole our nickname) AEPi on 'Sorority Life'.

Edited to add:
I don't think anyone else explained the door decks; the sorority puts them up on the new members' doors while all the new members are at bid day at the sorority house. When you get back to your dorm (apartment, house, etc.) it should be hanging on the door. I think ours are the coolest 'cause they're wooden, not paper, and in the year I've had mine I haven't managed to do any damage to it.

curlygirly · #57 08-04-2002, 11:28 PM

What is COB? And does UF go through Spring Rush? I've never really heard about it...so maybe it's very informal. What happens during Spring Rush?

sororitygirl2 · #58 08-04-2002, 11:41 PM

Well, Rho Chi society was founded in 1922... I am not sure when NPC started using the term Rho Chi for Recruitment Counselors.

Doesn't matter who used Rho Chi first... the society is the one that got it trademarked and copyrighted and all that good stuff... so legally Panhellenic had to change it...

kdonline · #59 08-04-2002, 11:46 PM

So here I sit, on my 35th birthday, reading your posts about UF rush... I can sense the excitement, the physical "rush" of it all that I first experienced 17 years ago... (ooh, to think you guys were like 2-3 yrs old when I sat in Norman Hall myself!

It's interesting to read about the UF traditions that still happen & how they've changed... the door decorations, the running from Normal Hall to Sorority Row (hmm...I don't remember it being so "dramatic" as it's been reported..)

We didn't have a "new member initiation" I don't think, but the girls who did not receive a bid were contacted.

As for my own Bid Day - oh, I was so nervous....even though I was a legacy @ KD. When I went up to get my card, one of my Rho Chi's handed it to me, & whispered in my ear "We're gonna be sisters!" Wahoo!

Curlygirly, you're doing the right thing by asking questions, but BOY, do YOU have an advantage knowing all this stuff ahead of time!

SigKapSweetie · #60 08-04-2002, 11:51 PM

Curlygirly~
I sent you a PM.

~Dale