What crazy hazing rumors have gone around your campus?

[kristiAZD]

I was reading the GC members' worst nightmare thread, and I thought I'd start this one. I've heard so many crazy rumors about things that people supposedly do to their new members and I'd love to hear what rumors fly around the freshman dorms at your schools. Here's what I've heard from freshman girls so far:

We make our new members eat HoHo's until they throw up (this changes every year, I think the year I pledged everyone was saying it was M&Ms)

Some one started one that we're really lazy and we'll all go to bed with our doors open and then we call our new members and make them come down campus to shut our doors for us (who comes up with this stuff??)

Here's the grand-daddy (and this one rotates from sorority to sorority each year, currently people are saying it's someone other than us right now). Apparently sororities here make their girls sit naked on basketballs and watch porn....I'm not going to say the rest, it's just not appropriate. Yeah, like that happens!!!! Who in thier right mind would not quit on the spot if anyone actually made them do that??!! I know I would!

POTENTIAL NEW MEMBERS: just know that this stuff is purely made up, no chapter in their right mind would do this stuff. If you're in college, you've probably heard it, if you're not yet, you will. Just know that it is bogus. All of us actives just like to laugh about what people who aren't in greek life THINK goes on. Trust me, it doesn't.

[KillarneyRose]

There was a rumor going around about one of the sororities saying that they made a pledge sit between two sisters and eat an entire jar of mayonnaise and if she got any barf on either of the sisters she had to start over.

Supposedly one sorority had a file that contained Xeroxes each pledge had made of her breasts. Each pledge class had to make a middle of the night run to Kinko's and, um, copy themselves!


One sorority was rumored to have their letters tattooed on the inside of their thighs (this was back before tattoos were commonplace)

[lifesaver]

Some other chapters in Texas thought we hazed. Listen to this. Too funny.

Apparently we had thsi thing called the "Wheel of Misfortune". We used it if our pledges got outta line. It was allegedadly a six foot revolving wheel that was placed in a baby pool of water. The pledges were strappd to it and there was a car battery that was next to it and had jumper cables that went from the battery to the pool of water. The pledges were then asked questions and every answer they got wrong, they got a spin on the wheel, dipping their hands feet and head in the water, shocking them.

Um, yeah. Wheel of misfortune. I wanna make a shirt withthat on it.

[Peaches-n-Cream]

Rumor has it, a man and a goat or was it a sheep or maybe a cow. Oh well I forget, but you can use your imagination...

[AXO Alum]

Originally posted by kristiAZD

POTENTIAL NEW MEMBERS: just know that this stuff is purely made up, no chapter in their right mind would do this stuff. If you're in college, you've probably heard it, if you're not yet, you will. Just know that it is bogus. All of us actives just like to laugh about what people who aren't in greek life THINK goes on. Trust me, it doesn't.

Amen to that! Of course there are many greeks who like to sit around and make up stuff about other chapters. Its not just a GDI thing!

[GmuTeke]

three words:

Circle the Fat

Hands down the silliest rumor out there on any campus.

[SSS1365]

Gotta agree with the circle the fat one... Although a sorority here actually did do that way before I was a student here.

One about us that our NATIONALS came up with ( ) was that we made our new members carry around baby bottles and drink out of them. I don't know where they heard this from, but it's ridiculous.

Let's see... there's a long-standing rumor here about an off-campus (not even national) fraternity. Supposedly, their pledges have to get really friendly with goats. Also, every semester during their hell week they have to go the whole week without showering or changing clothes. I promise you that, unfortunately for those of us who have classes with them, the latter is true. But I don't think the goat thing is. Oh and another one about them is that the pledges do a "pick and stick" where they choose a sorority and they have to rape a girl from that sorority and she has to be wearing letters because they have to get pictures for proof. I never heard this rumor until my sorority was "picked." Funny how no one ever even attempted to abduct any one of us.

[maggieaxid]

These are rumours that i have heard:

We make our new girls carry around a can of beer in their backpacks to classes.

Circle the fat! (apparently all the sororities do this)

We make them wear white thongs to initiate and they have to run around in them. (um, i don't think when our rittual was founded there were such things as thongs!)

One of the frats has to be "friendly with sheep".

one of the frats have the brothers slit their wrists

[dzrose93]

I think the fraternity pledges being friendly with sheep and the sorority pledges having their fat circled are the two most notorious rumors around today. It's too bad that so many people choose to put so much stock in these ridiculous rumors instead of using their God-given brains to do a little research and find out the truth.

[lionlove]

The "Circle the fat" rumor is on my campus too. I didn't know the rumor was so widespread.

Here are some others: sorting sprinkles by color, doing pushups in their underwear on top of a sprinkler, pledges have to go to a sisters room to change the channel on their tv, shmegging...

and the most wide spread rumor is of a fraternity that filled a bathtub full of water on the third floor of their house and pledges had to get the water from that tub down to an empty tub in the basement by filling their mouth with water and running downstairs (without swallowing or spitting) and spitting the water out in the tub in the basement.

[Peaches-n-Cream]

You mean you didn't have your fat circled?! Am I the only one?!
Just kidding!

[shadokat]

Sad thing is that some of this stuff actually DOES happen. On our campus, and this is no rumor, one of the sororities has their new members sleep in their basement in trash bags. Another group does not allow their new members to go to their rooms for the entire last week of pledging. They carry everything in their backpacks, wear the same clothes and don't shower all week. Trust me, I sat next to one of the pledges when I was a pledge, and that girl REEKED!!! And one of my best friends in high school, while she would not really divulge what she had to do, told me that if they got to do the dishes at night at the house, that was a privilege!!

I know on other campuses, hazing does exist. On one of the campuses that I advise a chapter at, a sorority got caught by their national organization hazing. The group had two choices: repledge or be stripped of their letters. After they made their decision, they sat and with the president of the national organization, sent a letter to the president of all of the other national organizations on campus, telling them of all the hazing that went on in all of the sororities. Some of the stuff was hideous!

The circling the fat one, always seems to be the number 1 sorority rumor.

Sororities:
- you have to ask a guy three questions, like Can I do this... the last one has to be can I have sex with you? if he says yes, you have too
- military aerobic training
- making the new members sleep in the basement and do crossword puzzles all night
- walking to classes backwards
- mandatory library hours with no talking or studying
- cant call home you're entire pledge period

* some of these are just plain dumb

Fraternities
- making the new members run to sorority houses naked
- getting tarred and feathered in rasberry sauce
- im sure we all know about the brick and the string
- also the cookie in the middle
- being left in the middle of nowhere and finding your way home
- lets see how much you can drink
- strip teases

again, mostly dumb rumors

[maggieaxid]

O, i forgot one more...drinking a case of shlitz beer that has been in the oven and if they puked they had to eat it with a fork the next day.

[Optimist Prime]

Here is a rumor. At least I hope it is a rumor. One of the underground fraternities here allegedly makes their pledge masturbate on a biscut. The last one to ejaculate has to then eat the biscut.