As an old RVP I have some great stories.

The first one involves one of our chapter members. We were holding a rush practice and we were going over difficult questions/topics/situations, etc. We generally have to double rush (take in two girls) bc our chapter is small, and so this member actually raised her hand and asked me, "What if my two pnms get into a fistfight?" I was like WTF?! I think I actually asked her, "Why in the hell would your two pnms get into a fistfight?" She depinned a few months later.

Next, while a pnm was walking into our party, she fell down the stairs, totally ate it. It was soooooooooo funny but we were trying not to laugh too hard.

Then while we had this kind of jungle/Hawaiian type theme going on, one of our tiki torches (not lit, thank GOD) fell over and hit a pnm on the head. I was sooooooooo freaking embarassed.

One that rivals some of the other b*tchiest pnm stories: We had these two girls go through who was just horrible. They both were well known XYZ rush crushes and we knew they had it in the bag, but I mean SERIOUSLY......who acts like this? The whole time, they were looking around and laughing at the decorations and stuff, and making fun of some other girl because of what she was wearing. THEN they got into a conversation along the lines of, "if by some horrible chance we dont' get into XYZ, what will we go?" they were having this conversation between the two of them, by this time my sister had kindly removed herself from the conversation and just kinda stood there and listened. So they decide that if XYZ doesnt' take them that ABC would be a disappointing but acceptable second choice. OMG. Now, this was during the first round of parties, and our chapter is very small, so we cut very few girls after first round. WELL........let's just say we didn't invite them back. I had talked with them for a short period of time and I went and told my advisor, if we allow those girls to ever step foot back into this room, I'm quitting.

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Ah, nothing says Dedicated Alumna than letting a chapter set your house of fire for a rush party!! I hope y'all dedicate a funny award or whatever for her!!

Bumping this up for the 2004 rush season!

This is why sometimes I think it's perfectly acceptable to leave a PNM in the corner by themselves!!

PsychTau

I still say the PNM who announced she "could use anything as a weapon. I could kill you wiht this fork right now." takes the cake.

Crazy Rush stories
 

Hi everyone, I'm pretty new here but I thought I would add my stories. Some are pretty crazy but not as crazy as others I've heard on here! :-) I was an active member for 4 years. Of course we had interesting characters come through.

One time I picked up a girl who had to be one of the most unfortunate looking people I have ever seen. I hate to sound superificial but we're talking 5 feet tall and close to 200 pounds, no makeup on whatsoever, hair in a blah shoulder-length, a dumpy T-shirt and jeans. But I figured I've gotta talk to her so I might as well give it a shot and be nice. I ask her the usual stuff and she says right away she is from LA, her dad is an executive TV producer for blah blah blah and she knows all these celebrities in fact they had Dylan McDermott over for dinner just last week...this girl wouldn't stop name-dropping and mentioning how much money her dad makes. I could hardly get a word in edgewise about Sigma Kappa, our sisters, etc as she told me about going to high school with so-and-so's kid. It was all I could do to keep from laughing, I have met these types before but usually in the form of drop-dead gorgeous girls. From what I heard she did this at every house, I guess in effort to impress them but with looks like she had it was useless....she got dropped by every house except the chapter that was recolonizing after day one.

Thought that was long? I have one more :) Not about a PNM but its a rush story nonetheless

Right before my first rush as an active (informal Spring rush) we were getting the house ready for PNMs to arrive. Some sisters go outside to decorate the front walkway, writing the PNMs names in chalk (it was the invite only/bid day). Suddenly one sister comes running in, saying "Call the cops! There's a sicko outside!" apparently while the girls were outside a man was in the bushes watching them, pants in one hand and one-eyed trouser snake in the other. As soon as our member noticed him she ran inside and he walked off towards the fraternity next to us. We thought he was gone then realized no he was hiding behind their deck, still watching and..."finishing up" I guess. New members and cops show up within 10 minutes, 5 of our girls were giving their accounts to the cops as girls line up out in front catching every detail. Sure enough the cops go, bust the guy and cuff him all within 20 feet of our front door. The guy was holding his pants and a jar of hand cream. Pretty sick stuff! :eek:

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OH MY GAWD! :eek: I am speechless on that one.

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aww man, i am trying to get over the stomach flu. this did not help:eek:

Last year, the night before skit night of rush there was an electrical fire in our chapter room.... So, the house had to be evacuated, and a fire truck came. Of course, our house is in the very middle of sorority row, so the girls from all the other houses start coming outside to see what's going on. The, 2 more fire trucks came.... Great! We didn't really freak out until we saw them taking the big huge fire hose INTO our house!

Well, it turned out that there was only a little hole in one wall by the light switch... less than a foot wide. So, maybe we didn't really need to freak out.

Oh, but the story gets better.......

After the fire trucks left, one of the younger girls started really freaking out, having an anxiety attack or something... She kept saying that the house was gone, and they were like, "You're sitting on the front porch!" :rolleyes: So, then the fire trucks and an ambulence came AGAIN to take care of the girl!
:confused:

So, yeah it was interesting. At least some of the other houses maybe got a laugh out of it, and it made for an interesting story for the PNMs the next day.

On the topic of fire...
 

I forgot all about this until Lindz posted her story and it reminded me!
When I was going through rush I was at my second pref party at KD. I loved this house and the girl rushing me was so cool I had already gotten to know her throughout rush, and it broke my heart being there because I already knew I was going Sigma Kappa. Anyway so the KDs and the PNMs are seated in the dining room at these long dining tables (probably 10 people each side at least) with flowers and lit candles, back before all the rules about no real candles being used came out it was really beautiful. And of course the girl rushing me is pulling out the ol' pref night charm & tears and its just a very special moment when one sisters asks her to please pass a napkin. As my rusher reaches over, she knocks over a candle and sets the paper tablecloth up in flames! Seriously I don't know how it caught fire so fast, but finally a couple a girls started dumping all the glasses of soda onto it.
Not a funny story for sure! But a rush event to remember. I felt so bad for my rusher too, she probably thinks I didn't join because of her clumsy goof :(

I hope you're feeling better smiley :)

We had a girl go through formal rush who was a legacy of the other sorority on campus so, obviously, she had no interest in anything we had to say...
well, it being rush n' all, we tried our best with EVERY pnm including this young lady, but I swear, she would give you a look that could freeze your soul. That and she had nails like a Ming Emperor.
Well, she obviously didnt go PiPhi, but guess who didnt accept her? The other sorority! and she was a legacy! OOOOOH, DENIED!
She went informally and finally got into her group of choice, but she is a real piece of work!

you know, it's funny the people you meet during rush. It's like they lay dormant all year and then....... and THEN...........

Not sure if this is really a weird rush story but....

My only reservation about joining ASA was that one of the ASAs, while startlingly attractive, was widely acknowledged (by everyone else in the greek system) to be crazy and a pathological liar. She claimed to be "dating" two very famous baseball players, which of course was ridiculous. Even though a lot of the rushees gossiped about it, I decided other things were more important. One of my Tri-Delt friends tried to talk me out of accepting my bid, saying "I can't believe you'd want to be in the same sorority as that nutcase." ASA definitely lost a lot of good girls because of her.

After I joined, she tried to get some of the new pledges to drive from Penn State out to Kansas City with her to visit "boyfriend" #1 (a KC Royal who is now in the Hall of Fame). None of us sophomores would go, knowing it was a wild goosechase, but two of the freshmen went. As it turned out, they ended up staying at Famous Baseball Player #1's house. And later on, some of the girls went with her to New York, and went out to the bars with Famous Baseball Player #2 (a NY Yankee).

So she wasn't crazy, but she was a baseball groupie. Both guys were single, but still --- what were we going to say to people? "Oh, XX isn't nuts at all, she's just kind of a slut who likes to follow baseball players around." Which explained why none of them criticized her themselves, but they couldn't really defend her either. We just tried to be sure she was off visiting one of her "boyfriends" during rush, so as to keep her from telling the rushees about her hobby.

HAHAHAHAHA. "Oh, no, she's fine. Just a little slutty." quote of the DAY.

I'VE DONE THIS! But she picked up her cellphone and started talking on it while at a rush party and complaining about how she was at a stupid sorority - and I had my rush crush (now lil) with me and I soooo wanted to impress her. The bitch on the cellphone got left on a piano bench in the corner by herself.

She got on her CELL PHONE?! That's great. Once as a rush party was ending I was escorting the girl I was talking to to the door, we weren't even to the door yet before she had her phone out and started making a call...little did she know we hadn't done our sing out yet. I for one sang at the top of my lungs, I hope whoever she was talking to got a good earful of singing sorority girls (and trust me, we're not the best of singers!!!) :cool:

While I definitly agree that it was quite strange for her to give you the fancy medical name for pink eye, it is highly contangious and you would definitly not want her at that event because you and your sisters would more than likely have ended up with it too.
So I don't really see why it was a problem that she refused to come to an event.

During the first round of formal rush way back when, we were at the last house of the afternoon before dinner break. The party was coming to an end when all of a sudden, the tornado sirens started going off! There are very strict rules for how long the parties can go on and how much contact sisters could have with PNMs, so it wasn't like we could just keep talking, but at the same time they weren't about to kick us outside when there was a tornado warning! We (the PNMs) ended up sitting in one part of the basement, and they put The Little Mermaid on for us to watch, while the sisters went to another part. Once the all-clear sounded we left as normal. I think they pushed the start of the next group of parties back about half an hour or so that day.

This sounds like a girl at my school! She went up to the XYZ dinner table and said, "I really can't wait to be an XYZ." Then she went up to the ABC table and said, "I really want to be an ABC!" And she kept going around to all of the tables. Needless to say, the sisters talk to each other...so we'll just have to see how things go in September.

She DID tell you the truth, she just used a term you weren't familiar with.

She might not have wanted to broadcast the fact that she has pinkeye... in some areas of the country it's associated with being "trashy" and unclean.

I'm with HotDamn. When I was tutoring in a local elementary school two years ago, one of my students gave me conjunctivitis (pinkeye). Everybody treated me like a leper as soon as they found out. I pretty much just stayed in my dorm room for two days 'til the antibiotics had kicked in. A week later it came back, and by that time I was home for Christmas, working at Old Navy. My boss told me not to come in, even though it was Christmas Eve and they were short-handed, because he knew that if I did, the entire store and all the customers would pick it up.

I completely agree, this girl DID telll you the truth. Maybe she went to the doctor, and the doctor told her she had conjunctivitis without mentioning that it is commonly called pink-eye. Also, this is a perfectly legitimate reason not to come to a mandatory event. When you have pink-eye, your eyes are not only red, they are really swollen, pusing and/or crusty, and itch like hell. Add to that the EXTREMELY contagious nature of pink-eye, and you realize its a better idea to stay home and wait for it to pass. I think it was actually more considerate to stay home and avoid spreading it. At my old job, my boss and a co-worker came to work with pink eye, and I was VERY annoyed and always worried that I would catch it.

One of my sorority sisters got pink eye right before one of our formals, and in the pictures, all of us have digusting eyes which are swollen shut. Not attractive.

It's bad if someone at a party has pinkeye, but someone using the same bathroom, sink and shower hardware is even worse!

I'm voting with those who say that telling you she had conjunctivitis was just fine - glad it didn't stop her from getting a bid!

liontamer, that's too bad, but what a great story. Talk about a formal no one will ever forget!

I just thought of this one:

I was at a contact party for my Kappa Phi club chapter. We're open membership (kinda like APO or Gamma Sig) so we don't really choose the girls, we just kinda talk to them and try to get them to see what we're all about so hopefully they decide to join us.

So anyway, there were about 20 or so PNM's there. I sat down and starting talking to a girl who had the most wretched look on her face, and was quite "mute". :rolleyes:

She totally rolled her eyes at everything I said and gave me one word un-enthusiastic answers. She flat out told me that she only came b/c her friends came and b/c we had refreshments :rolleyes:

I remained calm and polite and was quite relieved when she decided not to pledge. :)

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so last year during the first day of recruitment when i was a rho chi, i overheard a pnm tell another pnm that XYZ is only giving out three bids and that two of them would be their legacies, leaving one spot for that special someone. they thought this, cuz it was one of the chapters at total. so i told them every sorority gets an equal amount of new members that is called quota even if they are at house total. i thought nothing of it, but when the morning of pref night rolled around other rho chis were telling me they heard the same thing from their girls and we wondered how it even got started. every pnm was nervous to go into the XYZ room, because they thought they didnt have a chance to receive a bid from them. so the XYZ chapter president during their party had to make an annoucement that they are giving bids to more than three girls and will have roughly the same amount of girls like everyone else. even the greek advisor had to make an annoucement during our lunch break that they will give out more than 3 bids.
what pnms come up with these days :rolleyes:

CASIGKAP, I think you may have your terminology mixed up. "PNM" stands for Potential New Member; i.e., someone who has not signed a bid (formerly known as a "rushee," sometimes called a "recruitment guest"). I think you mean a "New Member," which is someone who has signed a bid but has not yet been initiated (formerly called a "pledge"). PMNs wouldn't have a big sis or be required to come to mandatory events (outside of formal recruitment), so I was confused when I first read your previous posts. Am I correct in my interpretation?

Beware the Double In-House Legacy!

Three sisters.... whose names all began with the same letter were a nightmare.

First there was "Jennie"-- a nice, athetic and outgoing girl. A real sister.

Two years later, her sister "Jamie" joined us while Jennie was an active member. Jamie was pretty, but she was quiet. This changed. Within a year, she had alienated almost the entire chapter. She really wasn't shy. She was a snob. She joined us b/c we were a top house and her sister's house.

The oldest sister graduated and we were stuck with the younger.

Fast forward a couple more years. Meet Janine. What a witch! Jennie came back to "help" with rush as an alum, and Jamie was an absolute holy terror.

I don't know how the heck this happened, but the two older sisters (remember, one is an ALUM!) manage to HOTBOX their own sister at a rush party!!!!! Not only that but Janine was beautiful, and quiet like the other sister, and had this habit of ignoring you if you said "hello" directly to her face. No one wanted her, but for some reason... we just had no choice.

It was a happy day when she dropped out.

WOW :eek:

This past winter in formal rush we had this girl come through who I actually know, I was her orientation leader her freshman year and then a desk receptionist in the building she lived in. I was like, Great, I think she could be total Theta material. Granted, I hadn't had a conversation with her in half a year, but I remembered her being sweet and nice. Well, apparently, she changed a little over that half a year, because although she came to our first two events and was relatively nice, she didn't return for philanthropy or pref. But we had another girl who I knew pretty well coming through rush and she got dropped by Alpha Phi, her first choice and only got invited to two prefs, us and DG. She was going to drop out of rush all together, but a frat friend of ours talked her into sticking it out and not confining herself to only her first choice. He told her she could always drop if she hated pref. Well, she came to both pref nights and even though she likedDG, she had a couple friends in Theta and decided that she wanted to go with us and so suicided (not advisable, but we really wanted her and I think she knew that). Well, the other PNM I was talking about looked at her preference card and was like, "I can't believe you'd want to be in Theta," really rude like that! The nerve, criticizing where someone else wants to be! Apparently she was intent on only going DG, who didn't take her anyway. She ended up with no bid and our new Theta ended up very happy and being voted into a big recruitment position at the end of this year. :)

OK, maybe she was bit dramitic and all about using the medical term for pink eye (drama queen award here), but be glad she stayed home. Pink Eye is HIGHLY contagious and sucks to get! It also makes you look really ugly. Maybe she was just too embarrassed to go hang out with her ultra cool and hot sorority sisters looking like the hunchback of notre dame with her big ol' pink eye!

Just a thought and I am probably wrong but MAYBE the girls didn't know what she had was called "pink eye". Maybe the doctor said "you have blah blah blah which is contagious, stay home and take these twice a day" and so that's what she told you? Maybe???

Yesterday was my first day on the other side of recruitment. It was really great to meet so many fun and interesting girls, but as far as weird rush stories go I had two...in one day.

The first was civil and would answer questions directed at her, but during our video highlighting the sisterhood and fun we have together as a chapter she was playing with her keys and cell phone. Rather annoying, but she seems a walk in the park to deal with compared to the girl I had at the next party.

Girl number two had taken her nametag and put it on her arm instead of her top, making it almost impossible to read her name without being obvious...and she didn't offer her name when I introduced myself. During the first five minutes of conversation she proceeded to tell me that she had decided she wanted to be in one of the other two sororities on campus. (Great organizations, but how rude do you have to be to say something like that five minutes into an organization's first day party?) To top it off, she was a runner. I would be trying to converse with her, and she'd just take off...at a rather good clip. I'd have to excuse myself from other conversations we had been members of in order to chase her. At least she stayed still through the video...I don't know what I would have done if she hadn't. And as if all that wasn't enough, during the last ten minutes she returned to her table and asked if she could set her napkins on fire in the table candle. When she left I just wanted to cry, but we had another party yet to go.

At least I've gotten over my fear of recruitment...I've been through the worst they could throw at me. Talking to the girls we've invited back for today should be no problem. (And it's philanthropy day, which our philanthropy is so important to me and I love to explain, so conversation today should be easier.)

At my campus, the PNMs don't take ANYTHING into the houses with them. Their purses and everything are left outside under the tents, where the Rho Chis watch them. So, no keys, no cell phones. They have to focus on what is going on in the house. Oh, they are also told not to wear watches.

I never thought about it much, but after reading some of these stories, I'm really glad they do that down here.