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I'm Old

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Okay, I'll bite from the late seventies: We all dressed to the nines every day; there were no shorts and t-shirts during rush. Invitations to rounds were actual paper invitations, carefully designed and crafted to go along with whatever party theme each house had chosen for the day. Rushees would pick up an envelope every day with all their invitations and decide which ones they would accept. We also gave out themed party favors each day to all the rushees who attended our parties. We used to do skits during round three, which could make or break a house's recruitment sometimes. They were fun but stressful to create and plan and rehearse, and required so much time and effort that they were actually a real pain, so I think it's good that those are gone. Nothing was computerized, so party lists and bid lists were done by hand and bid matching was done manually with paper lists and notecards, and made for some very late and contentious nights after prefs. There was no Quota Plus, so super cute rushees could go all the way to pref and put all their houses down and then still not get a bid if they were cross-cut, meaning that their top house had them on the second bid list and their second choice had them on the first bid list so each house hit quota before matching with them. Back then, when quota was reached before every girl was matched, that was that - no more bids, so very favorite girls that houses loved and wanted went without bids and everyone would be crushed! There was also no RFM and rushees could cut houses, so houses could keep inviting girls back all week just to have high returns, and then they would make one huge cut right before pref and these poor girls had already cut other houses so a lot of them would get totally dropped before pref. It was not better back then - y'all have it so, so much better now!