craziest Dirty Rushing story?

[Fleur de Lis]

I am new to GC, so please forgive me if there has been a previous thread on this. I did a search, but didn't find anything.

My question is: what is the most egregious dirty rushing example you have heard of or had happen to you??

I'm writing this because I just attended a welcome party for my alma mater, where students who had been accepted to the college could mingle with current students and alumni. I heard an XYZ sister tell an incoming freshman girl that if she wanted a bid, "I can make it happen". I was really blown away and didn't know what to say! Now, I think she was recently initiated, so probably didn't know the rules (much less that one sister cannot guarantee the whole house will agree) but I have heard crazy stories from UGA about people being taken out of the houses during rounds, etc.

What is your craziest story?

[fantASTic]

At a school near me [which only has locals], one of the chapters was suspended by the school for telling 35 girls that they had bids...and then only giving out 15 [or so]. The remaining girls complained to the administration, because they had [obviously] not pursued other options.

This same group also hazes like CRAZY. You would not even believe some of the stuff they do there. I know this because my best friend is in another sorority at that school, and her little sister is in that sorority.

[KSUViolet06]

This is something my friend told me about that happened when she rushed in 2003.

At KSU, the 3rd day of recruitment is House Tours/Video Day (the round before Pref). Well, my friend was at XYZ's House Tour party. This was her 2nd of the day, she'd gone to ABC right before that. She was more into ABC than XYZ at this point, but her PX insisted that she go to both.

So she goes to XYZ and everyone is being super nice to her. She didn't think anything of it. After their video, a sister takes her on a house tour.

Normally, the sororities take girls around and show off a few of the bedrooms. The doors are kept open and there are usually a couple sisters and PNMs touring the same rooms so they're never alone with a sister in any room.

Well, my friend is touring the house, and her rusher takes her to a bedroom and shuts the door behind her. My friend was like "umm why did you shut the door?" The sister tells her that she has something to show her. She reaches under a desk and pulls out an XYZ bid day bag & shirt!

My friend was pretty confused. The sister told her that her PX was an XYZ, and she'd heard from her that she had gone to ABC that day but that she was "in love with us" (which wasn't true). The sister then proceeded to tell her that she was already invited to Pref and that on Bid Night, she was guaranteed to be an XYZ.

My friend was flabbergasted. She didn't know the rules or anything, so she had no clue this was completely wrong. She just kind of smiled and they continued with the tour. She was thoroughly creeped out that the XYZ's had cornered her like that, especially since she was already on the fence about them to begin with. She also thought it was creepy that they'd been talking to her PX (who was telling them something that wasn't even true). After that experience, she was totally sure she didn't want to be an XYZ.

So when she got her Pref invites, she didn't go to XYZ (told the PX she was "sick"), preffed only ABC and got a bid from them later that night! Later that night, her PX (who was indeed an XYZ) called her on her cell phone (while she was at the ABC house celebrating) and left her a message saying "I'm really wondering why you didn't pref us today, everybody loved you and we guaranteed you a spot and you'll totally regret being an ABC." She never called her back and never regretted joining ABC.

[ΣΣΣMagan]

KSUviolet06 - WOW! That is horrible. I'm glad in that instance that the "bad guy" didn't win. I can't believe that happened! Talk about infractions galore!

[howtheSunrose]

A few years before I rushed, a senior (obviously someone who should know better) locked a PNM in a bathroom at a party with some of her sisters and tried to convince her to go XYZ. Needless to say, she'd didn't pledge them.

[texas*princess]

Originally Posted by ΣΣΣMagan

KSUviolet06 - WOW! That is horrible. I'm glad in that instance that the "bad guy" didn't win. I can't believe that happened! Talk about infractions galore!

No kidding -- that is so crazy!

[kathykd2005]

Originally Posted by howtheSunrose

A few years before I rushed, a senior (obviously someone who should know better) locked a PNM in a bathroom at a party with some of her sisters and tried to convince her to go XYZ. Needless to say, she'd didn't pledge them.

That is seriously SCARY. When I was an undergraduate, there was a sister of a GLO that will remain nameless that stood outside a residence hall drunk, screaming at a PNM that "XYZ is the BEST! If you don't go XYZ, you won't have any friends." They definitely got a fine for that.

[AGDee]

The worst cases I see are when most/all of the chapters on campus are far below Total (because Total is too high). It leads to many cases of PNMs being encouraged to drop out of formal recruitment and go through COB because they are better able to guarantee them a spot that way. It becomes quite obvious when 10 women drop out of recruitment and then all immediately go through COR with the same chapter.

[texas*princess]

Originally Posted by kathykd2005

That is seriously SCARY. When I was an undergraduate, there was a sister of a GLO that will remain nameless that stood outside a residence hall drunk, screaming at a PNM that "XYZ is the BEST! If you don't go XYZ, you won't have any friends." They definitely got a fine for that.

Wow.. that's insane. I remember doing the whole recruitment thing on the "other side"... it was so nuts... super early start, super late finish. I didn't even want to think about anything else but finding a few precious hours to sleep... I can't imagine being drunk during recruitment week

[AlphaFrog]

I remember one of the girls in my music class (before I rushed) telling my friend during class, a few weeks before rush, that she needed to rush, because she would write her a rec, and make sure that she gets in. I didn't know any different at the time, but I was thinking about this incident the other day. Wow.

Of course, this was non-competitive recruitment, and my friend was tall and thin, with blonde hair and blue eyes, had won a few pagents, and was nice as all get out too...she probably could have had her pick of chapters, anyway.

[kathykd2005]

Originally Posted by texas*princess

Wow.. that's insane. I remember doing the whole recruitment thing on the "other side"... it was so nuts... super early start, super late finish. I didn't even want to think about anything else but finding a few precious hours to sleep... I can't imagine being drunk during recruitment week

I would venture to say that this young woman had a lot of problems--she left school the year after that, if that is any indication...

It seems like every year that I was in college, we'd have pledges from XYZ sorority tell their friends in our new member class that they really liked us but their new "sisters" told them during rush that we were getting kicked off campus. That was always fun, especially when our new members came to us all upset.

[andrea981]

Originally Posted by AGDee

The worst cases I see are when most/all of the chapters on campus are far below Total (because Total is too high). It leads to many cases of PNMs being encouraged to drop out of formal recruitment and go through COB because they are better able to guarantee them a spot that way. It becomes quite obvious when 10 women drop out of recruitment and then all immediately go through COR with the same chapter.

That was the case with the recruitment on my campus. Not one sorority has been able to maintain chapter total for more than a semester -- ever! However, there are only 3 sororities and the two largest do not want to lower chapter total, obviously.

Basically the dirty rushing I saw was basically gotten away with because the girls in those two largest sororities always claimed that they "didn't understand that rule" or "I thought the rule was X, not Y" and they have never had any types of sanctions for their misbehavior. In my day one sorority invited a fraternity to co-host a COB event. Another time, we were all told that we could not go to this huge fraternity party that was going on the night of preference and half of one of the sororities attended and had all sorts of "unofficial" communication with PNMs. Other times the sorority members would just make things up about the other sororities like "Don't pledge ABC chapter, they are all lesbians" (we had one lesbian member) or "Don't pledge ABC chapter, they don't let their members drink."

I just started advising my chapter as an alum, after having been out of the area for the past 5 years. I am sad to say that things have not changed and the dirty rushing seems to continue without the other sororities ever getting punished or sanctioned.

What are some ideas on how other panhellenic chapters have sanctioned for things like that?

[Kevin]

Too many stories to count.. most of these things happened many, many times. Aside from the obvious infractions where members of other fraternities would escort their potentials into and out of our house to get their bid cards stamped, there were rumors spread about our horrific hazing practices (something about a tub full of urine).

Many years, it seemed we were the only group who really cared about the rules of recruitment.

[NutBrnHair]

One of my dear, older friends told me that when her brother arrived on the train to attend Ole Miss as a freshman in the 1930s, he got off the train wearing his Sigma Chi badge.