Information about Item:

• Form of verbal and customary folklore
• Informant: Male ’20, affiliated.
• Date Collected: 5/10/2020

Informant Data:

• The informant is a member of the Class of 2020 at Dartmouth. He is affiliated with Greek Life.

Contextual Data:

• Cultural and Social Context:

Most important events in rush, where the potential members get to meet and socialize with the current members of a fraternity, are “dry”. An example of a dry event is “Shakeout”.

Item:

• “Dry” events like Shakeout are events where the fraternity does not serve alcohol.

Collector’s Name: Shadi Ali Ahmad

Collector’s Comments:

• Item collected through Zoom.

Tags/Keywords:

• Verbal folklore
• Customary folklore
• Fraternity rush