Information about Item:

• Form of verbal folklore
• Informant: Female ’22, affiliated.
• Date Collected: 5/8/2020, 5/17/2020

Informant Data:

• The informant is a female member of the Class of 2022 at Dartmouth. She is affiliated with Greek Life.

Contextual Data:

• Cultural and Social Context:

Female rush participants have to visit all the sororities on campus, they cannot pick and choose the ones they like. Thus, if someone goes into the rush process knowing which sororities they want or don’t want, they should not be mean to the members of the sororities they dislike otherwise they could get disqualified.

Item:

• “Act boring, not mean”

Collector’s Name: Shadi Ali Ahmad

Collector’s Comments:

• Item collected through Zoom.

Tags/Keywords:

• Verbal folklore
• Sorority rush