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me too

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I'll bite as well although I was mid-70's. It's everything I'm Old and late 80's early 90's wrote plus this: 1) In mid-70's only three rounds - intro, theme and pref. 95% of girls were from Miss., 5% from other Southern states, so people knew more people. Houses were way smaller. 2) Theme parties looked like Martha Stewart landed at OM - elaborate hand-made name tags, party decor, food (themed to the party decor), matching outfits. 3) Girls ran out on the yard singing and dancing to welcome you to the party. 4) Skit party (theme) could really unduly influence girls. I remember KD had The Wizard of Oz and DDD did a wild west theme to perfection - like something from Broadway. If a house had a 'weaker' theme, I remember girls being less than impressed. I know that sounds shallow (it was) but that's how it was and it's why skit parties were cut. 5) The dreaded "door call." Because there was no RFM, that meant girls could win up going bid-less as others wrote. We had to be in our rooms that Sunday morning because if you didn't get a bid, your rush counselor would come to your room to tell you. That happened to my roommate and it was horrible. 6) The worst part - which RFM solved - was girls cutting houses they weren't interested in because they wanted top tier - and then top tier carrying them throughout the week only to cut them at pref, so they wound up with nothing. I knew a few really terrific girls that happened to. 7) Yes, we could cut houses which didn't work in our favor as noted above. 8) Every rushee (we were called rushees, not PNM's and it was called Rush, not Recruitment) got a glossy magazine type book before rush that had "chapters" on every sorority. This was unduly influential since every house had 4 pages on which they had pics of their members who were cheerleaders, or maybe a beauty queen of some title, or members of top honorary groups. The more active houses (and yes, top tier and also mid-tier, to be honest) had the beauty queens, cheerleaders, "best dressed" or "campus favorite" (yes, that was an actual competition then) or Miss Ole Miss and it made those houses look 'better' to some girls. 9) Parents did not show up on Bid Day. It was a laid-back day, just the new members (you were called a pledge back then) nothing elaborate like now. 10) And the other key thing - you did not get initiated until second semester after you made your grades. I like this since you had to achieve your grades and earn membership - after all you're here to get an education. You had more time to get to know your sisters (how you do that now with 400 members, I have no idea) and the sorority itself.