Cutting or pledging a group for dumb reasons - Page 7

SigKapSweetie · #1 08-04-2002, 11:37 PM

LOL, this thread is awesome! I dropped one house because their big formal is themed 'Italian Wedding' and I'm Scottish, I felt really weird about it.

I dropped another house because of their mean nickname, and a third because of an incident with the fan in the tent outside their house where we waited for the party to start. Apparently, one of the fan blades managed to snag the extension cord that was hanging from the top of the tent and rip it off the tent. It made a loud 'Crack!' and we all thought the fan was going to come down on our heads. It was hilarious, all of us in our immaculate sundresses diving out of the tent to keep from being crushed by the ceiling fan. The fan didn't fall, but I was so freaked out that I'm sure I wasn't a stellar conversationalist during that party, and I dropped that house at the first opportunity. Looking at all this, I'm amazed I ended up in the right house for me; I was such a twit during recruitment!

AlphaChiS2K · #2 08-06-2002, 02:10 PM

I may be a total dork, but I LOVE the snapping!! People talk less when they snap than when they clap, and that's why our chapter does it. It really does make a difference. Plus, it gives new meaning to the phrase, "Two snaps up!"

Hmmm.... when I went through rush there was one house that kept calling me by the wrong name. I was wearing a nametag that CLEARLY said "Maya" and they all kept calling me "Mary"... I corrected them numerous times and they still kept calling me Mary. It wasn't a house I was going to pledge anyways, but that just topped it off.

Of the 4 houses that interested me, I cut one because (among other reasons) a couple of girls were very heroin-chic looking- long lank hair, uber-skinny, with pounds of black eyeliner and dark shadow. They looked.... kind of dead. It scared me, so I cut them. Now I'm best friends with that sorority's president, though, and they are a great bunch of girls.

Optimist Prime · #3 08-06-2002, 02:30 PM

I like it cuz its not as loud as clapping and more focused. You can clap for anything, but when you get you snaps, you get snaps.

33girl · #4 08-06-2002, 03:31 PM

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Originally posted by AngelPhiSig
When we were first founded our chapter had cute little dress suits that were blue and worn with a gold top... I guess it was cool to dress alike back then!

Alison, I can't believe you guys had those too. We have pics of the sisters from the early 70's wearing sort of yellow on cream checked dress suits...why yellow, I don't know. I guess red would have been too much. The first time we saw the pics our collective reaction was "WTF??!?"

Oh, and what is this "snapping" thing? You don't have sisters dressed up like Men on Film at your parties, do you?

DRau · #5 08-06-2002, 04:07 PM

Speaking of snapping and clapping....

My chapter stepped outside the norm and did a 'hand-wave' like you were fanning yourself on a hot day. The wave meant 'I agree' and our poor new members (and even other A-Phis from different chapters) were always so confused by our bizarre hand motions. I know where the wave originated from, but I have no idea how it mutated in such a way. It's very addictive though - I find myself doing it even when I am talking to people who are not from my chapter!

violets · #6 08-08-2002, 11:51 AM

These posts are too funny. I have to admit that I dropped a chapter because they did a MASH theme and they all wore army fatigues and painted their faces green and brown. It was so ugly and depressing! In their skit they even had people pretend to operate and they had fake blood and everything! Other rushees around me loved it and I was getting nauseous.
On pref night I was totally already sold on ADPi but I still had to go to two other chapters prefs. At XYZ chapter they had four girls who were voice majors and they were concentrating in opera. I was unlucky enough to be sitting right in front of them while they sang pref songs in their full operatic voices. My head was pounding by the time I got out of there!

SigKapQueen · #7 08-09-2002, 06:58 PM

ill admit i pledged sigma kappa, because we are the only sorority on our campus to not have a delta letter in their name. we have adpi, agd, azd, and dz. i was like, "wow this sorority is original, cuz it doesnt have a delta." i was so stupid. but oh well, thats the past. now i love all our glos on my campus no matter what letters they are!

carnation · #8 06-02-2003, 10:46 PM

I'd like to hear what our new members have to say!

astroAPhi · #9 06-02-2003, 11:46 PM

LOL, this cracks me up.

A girl from Florida Tech who I spoke to before coming to campus told me that dues were like, $900/semester and I freaked. So right away I checked out the prices of the sororities. At first I was like hey, XYZ is cheaper than ABC. And then I said to myself, you moron it's like 13 bucks difference.

My roommate immediately was anti-Gamma Phi Beta (the only other sorority on campus at the time) because all the cheerleaders were Alpha Phis, and she wanted to be a cheerleader.

meridionaleDG · #10 06-02-2003, 11:47 PM

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Originally posted by violets
It was so ugly and depressing! In their skit they even had people pretend to operate and they had fake blood and everything! Other rushees around me loved it and I was getting nauseous.

Oh my gosh! Why on earth would they do something like that?!?!

"Hey! Look at our fake blood spuewing out of our sister! Don't you want to be a sister now too?!!"

Gross!

ThetaPhiAngel · #11 06-02-2003, 11:54 PM

I'm definitely guilty of not giving some a try for superficial reasons...

We don't have formal recruitment on my campus, but there were several sororities I didn't even consider for pretty silly reasons(aside from the fact that most of them are locals and haze their new members like crazy). One of the sororities' letters spell POT and I just couldn't imagine walking around with POT on a shirt or jacket. Another has a sigma in its name, but for some reason everyone refers to the sigma as an "E" for their nickname. It just kinda bothered me, like how Delta Xi Omega's nickname is DZO instead of DXiO. Oh, and another's colors are lime greenish-yellow(not sure of the exact color) and brown. Great reasons, I know.

Anyway, I know I ended up where I belong and I love all my sisters.

MSKKG · #12 06-03-2003, 12:05 AM

I was Kappa all the way, but how I choose my other GLO was silly. I really wanted to suicide Kappa but was advised not to. I put KKG for my 1st 2 choices and put another GLO as my 3rd choice. I really liked the one I didn't list a little better than the one I did list, but a cousin was an alum of the GLO I listed, so I figured family counted for something. However, her brother's wife was an alum of the one I didn't list, so I guess it wouldn't have mattered. It was a moot point anyway 'cause I got my wish!

ToBeSororityGrl · #13 06-03-2003, 01:14 AM

but I wanted to put a little turtle on my nametag because it's been my favorite type of creature forever and then when I went to the DZ party I almost fell over when I saw all the turtles and kept thinking, "my god this is my kind of place!" Glad I didn't put the turtle on my tag though, that would have been soooo bad!

gphiangel624 · #14 06-03-2003, 03:24 AM

Looking back, I remember the reason why I cut one chapter on the first day was because I was afraid these two girls I had met through a guy I was seeing (who happened to be sisters) hated me (they barely knew who I was) and would cut me first. So I hd to "beat them to it" or something. I probably wouldn't have cut them if I had met a few more people, including my current best friend who is an alum of their chapter. First impressions make a difference... but I love my chapter more than anything.

I actually had a hard time during pref because, and this is so shallow, the room decorations during pref night. The first chapter, Alpha Chi, had slightly fewer members than Gamma Phi, and though the room sizes were identical (this was on campus in general meeting rooms), they had more space in the room, allowing for more decoration and detail, like lattices, lots of lights, little tables here and there, etc. The room was amazing and had this beautiful arbor as we walked in. I was taken away. Then I went to Gamma Phi: who were stuck with the long, straight tables (as opposed to the small and circular ones) and had a larger number of members in the room. It was horribly cramped, I was nearly sitting on the girls next to me, and there was no space whatsoever for the ritual at the end of the night. But I finally realized that it wasn't about the decorations, it was about the people! I could only seriously name two of the girls I'd met in Alpha Chi (and one was so scary to me for so long, but now we're friends) and I knew, like, KNEW, so many Gamma Phis... the choice became clear.

White_Chocolate · #15 06-03-2003, 12:02 PM

well, i knows that tons of girls like one sorority on our campus because they're 'more Greek sorority looking' than the rest of us. and it's so funny. . .every year, they get like 15 pledges but by the time initiation rolls around, they have maybe 3 left. . .and then, half of the chapter disappears