Traditions: Rushing

I hope you’ve enjoyed out traditions series thus far.   Today we’ll talk about the traditions of beginning a pledge process or rushing.  One of the biggest timed honored traditions, is that beginning of the journey to greek life. From the moment you have interest in an organization, to the point where you are offered an invitation or  bid to partake in an organizations intake process, culminating in you becoming a brother or sister.

The process of joining a Greek letter organization varies greatly from organization to organization.  Members of IFC or PC traditionally begin with a recruitment period.  It’s commonly at the very beginning of the semesters and is more commonly known as “rush week.” Usually filled with different events and activities designed for members and potential members to learn about each other and the organization. At the end of this period which last a week, organizations hand out bids to those they want to join their organization.

For most organizations belonging to other councils, the process is a bit different.  Most of their recruitment takes place a bit after the traditional rush.  Most orgs have informational sessions where interested people can get a chance to learn more about the different organizations.  At that point the varying next steps that those potential new member need to complete to move along in the process are given.  Then, just like PC and IFC, invitations to commence an intake process are handed out, and so the journey begins.

While there’s no way to cover every tradition, we hope to have given you a better glimpse into the significant traditions in greek lettered organizations.

Up next we’ll talk about why you should, or shouldn’t become greek.  So stay tuned.