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“You will be happy wherever you end up”

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Title: Sorority Saying 2

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:

Since rho gammas are supposed to support the rush participants and since the rush process for women is not about their choice in where to rush for the most part, rho gammas tend to come up with supportive sayings to make the participants trust the process.

Item:

  • “You will be happy wherever you end up”

Collector’s Name: Shadi Ali Ahmad

Collector’s Comments:

  • Item collected through Zoom.

Tags/Keywords:

  • Verbal folklore
  • Sorority rush

“Act boring, not mean”

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Title: Sorority Saying 1

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

Fraternity Rush “Dry” Event

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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

Rho Gamma at Collis

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Title: Sorority Pref Night Clothing

Information about Item:

  • Form of  customary 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:

Rho gammas are anonymous women who are chosen from sororities to guide and support rush participants through the rush process. The informant reported that meeting their rho gamma at collis strengthened the relationship between rush participants and the rush process in general, and possibly encouraged them to promote rush even after the old members graduate.

Item:

  • On bid night, participants go to Collis to meet their “rho gamma”.

Collector’s Comments:

  • Item collected through Zoom.

Collector’s Name: Shadi Ali Ahmad

Tags/Keywords:

  • Customary folklore
  • Sorority rush

Sorority Bid Night Glitter

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Information about Item:

  • Form of material and customary 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:Bid night is the night when the chosen women who participated in rush are invited to their future sororities to celebrate. The significance of using glitter as an accessory, as reported by the informant, is so that all the new members feel like they are part of the same group.Item:
  • On bid night, the women who get in a sorority accessorize their outfits with glitter.

Collector’s Comments:

  • Item collected through Zoom.

Collector’s Name: Shadi Ali Ahmad

Tags/Keywords:

  • Material folklore
  • Customary folklore
  • Clothing
  • Sorority rush