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Dirty Rush: The Secret Ritual of Initiation · The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Dirty Rush, The Truth about Sorority Life with
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  Speaker 1: your hosts me Gia Judice.
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  Speaker 2: Daisy Kent, and Jennifer Kessler.
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  Speaker 3: Welcome back to part two of our most restricted, most
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  Speaker 3: guarded episode yet.
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  Speaker 4: So settle in.
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  Speaker 3: You're about to hear the part of the story that
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  Speaker 3: no one was ever supposed to talk about.
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  Speaker 1: So for my sorority initiation, it was something that I
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  Speaker 1: had never thought was a big deal at all. There
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  Speaker 1: was nothing to prepare for. In my eyes, it was
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  Speaker 1: just on the calendar, and we had no acceptable excuses
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  Speaker 1: for missing this event. And I do know that some
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  Speaker 1: people missed and nothing happened to them. When people on
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  Speaker 1: the board of my sorority would speak about things being
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  Speaker 1: unexcusable or you can't miss, it just.
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  Speaker 4: Felt like life or death.
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  Speaker 1: Like if you couldn't make initiation, you were not going.
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  Speaker 4: To see the next day.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know why, I think ever since being in
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  Speaker 1: the sorority, I just it was really fun in bubbles
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  Speaker 1: and butterflies, until at times it felt very culty, which
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  Speaker 1: this initiation that I did is what really made me
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  Speaker 1: feel like it was very culty. Being a part of
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  Speaker 1: a sorority. I feel like the school and the SORTI
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  Speaker 1: that I was in was very chill and relaxed and
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  Speaker 1: didn't really have that strict of rules. But then, you know,
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  Speaker 1: for this initiation, I was reminded that it was a
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  Speaker 1: sorority and that there's you know, alumni and boards with
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  Speaker 1: people that are in their later ages that still create
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  Speaker 1: the rules for sorority. So it was just kind of
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  Speaker 1: like a realization moment for me for sure about like
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  Speaker 1: what it means to be in a sorority. So our
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  Speaker 1: sorority initiation was on a Sunday, and I can't remember
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  Speaker 1: remember the timing of it, but I do remember they
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  Speaker 1: kind of gave us a list of things that we
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  Speaker 1: couldn't do the night before. We weren't allowed to go out,
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  Speaker 1: we were not allowed to go to the frat houses,
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  Speaker 1: we were not allowed to go onto the campus bars.
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  Speaker 1: So I think no one followed that because no one
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  Speaker 1: really took it seriously, which ended up with some people
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  Speaker 1: having a pretty bad hangover the next day. And so
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  Speaker 1: essentially we were told to meet at the hotel of
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  Speaker 1: the town that our college was at, which was very bizarre,
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  Speaker 1: and we got there, we were instructed to wear nude
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  Speaker 1: undergarments and no makeup, hair, down socks which completely sealed in,
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  Speaker 1: like this is just weird. And so we arrived at
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  Speaker 1: the hotel, which felt really bizarre because it was a
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  Speaker 1: hotel that my family would day at for family weekend
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  Speaker 1: or any time they came to visit. And we were
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  Speaker 1: directed down to the basement of the hotel and it
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  Speaker 1: was a pretty like old fashioned place, really cool, definitely
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  Speaker 1: some ghost stories and people having weird stories from the
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  Speaker 1: rooms of the hotel. So we go down to the
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  Speaker 1: basement and it's just a room full of these white robes,
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  Speaker 1: which I've talked to my friends at other schools and they,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we were all kind of weirded out about it.
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  Speaker 1: So we see all these robes, very weird, and then
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  Speaker 1: we put them on and we were instructed by our
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  Speaker 1: supervisors that we were not to speak once we arrived
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  Speaker 1: into the basement, which I mean, we didn't really know
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  Speaker 1: what we were doing. We were kind of just following hands.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone was just shuffling around trying to be quiet. Everyone
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  Speaker 1: was very hungover. And then we were led into this
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  Speaker 1: dark room with candles and the older girls in our
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  Speaker 1: surrority were singing and they they were standing in a
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  Speaker 1: line waiting for us to walk in, so we all
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  Speaker 1: sheepishly walked in and for the actual ceremony part, which
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  Speaker 1: began with my president speaking in front of this designed,
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  Speaker 1: this plastic designed looking arch with a book in her hand,
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  Speaker 1: and to me, I remember it as gibberish. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: sure if she was speaking English or Greek words, but
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  Speaker 1: she was reading passages while the older girls were singing,
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  Speaker 1: and I remember being really freaked out, kind of like
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  Speaker 1: people were snickering around me. Everyone was kind of like
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  Speaker 1: looking all around. And then something kind of unusual happened.
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  Speaker 1: But a gal and my sorority had a service dog,
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  Speaker 1: and her service dog was in there with us, and
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  Speaker 1: the dog actually was a little bit freaked out for
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  Speaker 1: some reason. I think it was on the younger side
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  Speaker 1: of being a service animal. And a dog got out
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  Speaker 1: of the collar and ran around the room and knocked
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  Speaker 1: over a couple of the candles, and so all of
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  Speaker 1: the girls had to stop singing and we had to,
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  Speaker 1: you know, contain the fire that the cute service dog
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  Speaker 1: wagged its tail on. So that was just kind of
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  Speaker 1: like rattled things up and brought the ceremony back to
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  Speaker 1: life that it was just a sorority and nothing too
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  Speaker 1: coulty or crazy, but then finished, our bigs were seated
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  Speaker 1: by us, which was cool, and then some people had
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  Speaker 1: their moms in there, which I was like, Wow, everyone's
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  Speaker 1: in on it. And then we finished. Everyone went outside
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  Speaker 1: kind of gathered with my friends.
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  Speaker 4: And we were all like, uh, during.
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  Speaker 1: How much longer we were going to be a part
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  Speaker 1: of sorority life? And then realized that the initiation part
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  Speaker 1: was kind of the only thing that was bizarre, in
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  Speaker 1: that being in a sorority can be fun, except being
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  Speaker 1: initiated is so weird. So that's my initiation story.
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  Speaker 5: I was rushing in twenty twenty during COVID at a
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  Speaker 5: pretty big school, and so going into it, I knew
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  Speaker 5: I wanted to rush because everything was enclosure and I
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  Speaker 5: wanted to meet new friends and girls obviously, so I remember,
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  Speaker 5: at least during the summer meet going into it, I
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  Speaker 5: wasn't really like keeping up with what the top sororities were,
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  Speaker 5: what their reps were. I kind of was just going
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  Speaker 5: with the flow. But I remember over the summer, like
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  Speaker 5: the top sorority like followed me on Instagram, and I
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  Speaker 5: didn't really think much of it, and at least now
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  Speaker 5: looking back, I know that's like definitely not what you're
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  Speaker 5: supposed to do, Like you're not supposed to interact with
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  Speaker 5: any of the p and ms, especially like before Rush.
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  Speaker 4: So they started.
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  Speaker 5: Following me, and they even like followed me on think
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  Speaker 5: like Visco and that was like in my Instagram bio
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  Speaker 5: at the time.
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  Speaker 4: And so sign up for Rush.
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  Speaker 5: Everything was like I said on Zoom during quarantine, which
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  Speaker 5: in a way, looking back at it, I'm glad it
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  Speaker 5: was that way because I don't think I could ever
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  Speaker 5: do the twelve hours a day in heels and dresses.
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  Speaker 5: But it was definitely interesting at least over Zoom did that.
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  Speaker 5: And I remember like every time I would get called
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  Speaker 5: back for said sorority that reached out to me on Instagram,
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  Speaker 5: the President would always join the Zoom call, and.
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  Speaker 4: That definitely like put me on edge.
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  Speaker 5: For better or for worse, because if the president's listening
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  Speaker 5: in on every time that you're joining the House, it
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  Speaker 5: was clear that they wanted me to join. And so
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  Speaker 5: I actually put said sorority as my second pref not
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  Speaker 5: my first preth, and I got them, so I was
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  Speaker 5: part of the sorority immediately. It was very forced, at
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  Speaker 5: least with quarantine, it's kind of hard to make everything
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  Speaker 5: feel natural and no one really knows what they're doing.
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  Speaker 5: But I remember one of our first Sisterhood events was
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  Speaker 5: like a sleepover, so we didn't actually sleepover, which was
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  Speaker 5: very contradictory to the name, but what the sleepover entailed
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  Speaker 5: was we all sat in a giant circle upstairs and
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  Speaker 5: we passed around each to share a really traumatic story.
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  Speaker 5: And this was part of the I guess bonding and cleep.
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  Speaker 5: In mind, we don't know any of anyone else in
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  Speaker 5: our pledge class because we don't get interactions at least
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  Speaker 5: like outside of Zoom. I think this was one of
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  Speaker 5: the first like in person events and everyone was passing
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  Speaker 5: around this teddy bear and sharing like a really sad
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  Speaker 5: story and it took like three hours. And after that,
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  Speaker 5: I was like, I don't want to go to another
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  Speaker 5: Sisterhood event. This was not only depressing, but don't really
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  Speaker 5: feel any closer to anyone in my sorority whatsoever. So
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  Speaker 5: I just didn't go. And my EXEC really did not
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  Speaker 5: like that, which makes sense. My EXEC did not like
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  Speaker 5: me because I didn't go to the sisterhood events or
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  Speaker 5: the a lot of the exchange events. But This was
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  Speaker 5: because also at the exchange events, we would sing.
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  Speaker 4: Really really outrageous songs. I even have some of them.
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  Speaker 4: I'm like saved.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know if I can read them because it
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  Speaker 5: does give away the name of the story. But we'd
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  Speaker 5: seen these really raunchy songs essentially, and I was so
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  Speaker 5: comfortable like singing the song, so it was basically like
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  Speaker 5: I remember one of the lines was like it was
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  Speaker 5: like me and put it in my mouth, like and
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  Speaker 5: we had to stand there and like sing it in
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  Speaker 5: front of all these frat guys. So I didn't go
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  Speaker 5: to any of the exchanges or much of the SISTERED events,
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  Speaker 5: and I remember when I would go to the chapter meetings,
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  Speaker 5: the rules would be boobs or butt, not both. And
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  Speaker 5: that's she's they're talking about. When you go to a party.
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  Speaker 5: You can't show nothing, but you can't show both. So
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  Speaker 5: some girls would choose to flaunt their boobs and the
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  Speaker 5: other girls choose to flaunt their butt, but you can't
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  Speaker 5: show both.
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  Speaker 4: And immediately it just felt very.
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  Speaker 5: Like sexualized and uncomfortable, and along with the fact that
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  Speaker 5: I didn't know any of these girls, it was just
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  Speaker 5: essentially like the exec board who ares a year or
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  Speaker 5: two older that us, sparking at us, telling us what
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  Speaker 5: to sing about our bodies and like what to where
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  Speaker 5: to these parties. And I remember one of the even
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  Speaker 5: first chapter events is we don't call them frat boys,
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  Speaker 5: we call them fraternity men. Like it was correcting our
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  Speaker 5: verbiage on like the smallest things. Okay, So our initiation
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  Speaker 5: ceremony was over zoom, and I remember it was like
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  Speaker 5: during I want to say, like winter or Thanksgiving break.
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  Speaker 4: So I was at home doing this break this.
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  Speaker 5: Zoom from my room from home, and at least during
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  Speaker 5: the initiation, you know, you have the candles, you have
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  Speaker 5: the robes. That was all on zoom, so I'm pretty
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  Speaker 5: sure it was just like a candle background and just
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  Speaker 5: pressing through slideshows. And this actually is helping me remember
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  Speaker 5: what the pref and bid process was. It was through
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  Speaker 5: an email and like it was just congrats confetti across
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  Speaker 5: your screen. So it was very anti climactic and you
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  Speaker 5: didn't like meet anyone that was I didn't know anyone
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  Speaker 5: in my pledge class until come the next year when
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  Speaker 5: we did recruitment and I was on the other end.
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  Speaker 4: We had to.
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  Speaker 5: Stalk every girl come up with a list of like
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  Speaker 5: top ones, middle ones that we wanted to recruit for
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  Speaker 5: the sorority over the summer. So that definitely coincides with
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  Speaker 5: at least my experience coming in as a freshman over
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  Speaker 5: the summer.
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  Speaker 4: The sorority followed me, so they do. It's already like.
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  Speaker 5: Curated, having a list of like their top choices, and
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  Speaker 5: they would really go for girls like big following or
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  Speaker 5: like girls that had a really good Instagram. It wasn't
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  Speaker 5: necessarily based on like values obviously, because you can't really
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  Speaker 5: depict someone's values from their Instagram.
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  Speaker 4: So it was very materialistic and like two D in
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  Speaker 4: a way.
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  Speaker 5: It was very shallow, and I think that just goes
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  Speaker 5: back to the fact that we all had to pass
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  Speaker 5: around the stair until a sad story we could opt
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  Speaker 5: to pass, but it there was literally like max five passes.
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  Speaker 4: I'm pretty sure.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, from what I remember of my initiation ceremony story,
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  Speaker 6: it was a long time ago, but I remember we
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  Speaker 6: spent the night at the sorority house. Kind of everybody
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  Speaker 6: who was in the house left and so we were
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  Speaker 6: all in rooms.
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  Speaker 3: I remember.
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  Speaker 6: Us being trying to be silly and like trying to
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  Speaker 6: make pranes so they couldn't wake us up so early
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  Speaker 6: because they were waking us up, but I think they
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  Speaker 6: got rid of all the clocks so we couldn't see.
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  Speaker 3: But I think it felt like four am we were
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  Speaker 3: getting woken up at. And so we like set like
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  Speaker 3: water cups all up the stairs, so like it took
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  Speaker 3: the uh, the active members longer to get to us,
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  Speaker 3: which didn't end up working out super well, but we
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  Speaker 3: thought it was funny. Anyways, I remember waking up super early.
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  Speaker 7: I think we all probably got an hour or two
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  Speaker 7: of sleep, and so you just feel like you're in
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  Speaker 7: a haze and have no idea what kind of what's
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  Speaker 7: happening on they And this.
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  Speaker 3: Is where I kind of remember some things. But I
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  Speaker 3: remember putting on a robe kind of being either blindfolded
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  Speaker 3: or my eyes were to close something.
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  Speaker 6: And I went into a room and I'm joined a
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  Speaker 6: sorority that I was a legacy at. So my older
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  Speaker 6: sister was in the same sorority at the same school,
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  Speaker 6: and so I remember just like opening my eyes to
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  Speaker 6: her being there. She was super emotional and I kind
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  Speaker 6: of was just like, what is happening? Like this is
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  Speaker 6: almost a little like creepy say it on seat, like
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  Speaker 6: what is happening.
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  Speaker 3: I was just like, had no idea.
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  Speaker 6: I didn't know she was going to be there, but
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  Speaker 6: also being off black of sleep and I'm a contagious crier,
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  Speaker 6: so I saw her crying, so I started crying, and
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  Speaker 6: I was just like there was so much which I
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  Speaker 6: didn't understand at the time, just very like all these
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  Speaker 6: like rituals and things being said that I just was like,
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  Speaker 6: I don't know what's happening.
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  Speaker 4: Later leave that room.
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  Speaker 6: So at that point it was just me and anybody
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  Speaker 6: else who was a legacy. So there was a small
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  Speaker 6: group of people in this one room being revealed with
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  Speaker 6: whoever their legacy was or family member that was a
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  Speaker 6: part of the same sorority, and then later being brought
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  Speaker 6: into a different room that was much bigger, where my
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  Speaker 6: big sister was.
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  Speaker 4: And this is where things aren't super clear. It just
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  Speaker 4: was like really dark.
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  Speaker 6: Everyone was in robes, and I don't even remember the
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  Speaker 6: traditional things that happened. I remember my big being behind me,
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  Speaker 6: and then my blood sister, who i'm a legacy of,
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  Speaker 6: being behind her.
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  Speaker 3: To initiate us. But the one thing I actually really
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  Speaker 3: remember the most from this is that college game Day
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  Speaker 3: from ESPN was at our school this week this week.
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  Speaker 6: For our big football game, and all of our friends
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  Speaker 6: were going at like five am to stand out for
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  Speaker 6: college game day, and we could not go.
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  Speaker 4: Because it was initiation.
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  Speaker 6: So I just honestly remember wanting it to be over
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  Speaker 6: so that I could go get dressed and go to
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  Speaker 6: the football game and be with all the friends partying
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  Speaker 6: for college game day. So looking back now, I'm like,
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  Speaker 6: I wish I would have thought a little bit more
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  Speaker 6: of it as sentimental, but I was just ready for
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  Speaker 6: a good time, and so it was emotional, especially I
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  Speaker 6: think more so because my sister was there and she
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  Speaker 6: was just so happy and excited that I had chosen
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  Speaker 6: the exact same house that she had gone through, And
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  Speaker 6: that honestly was like the most memorable and biggest surprise
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  Speaker 6: to me because I did not know she was going
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  Speaker 6: to be there, so that was super special to have
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  Speaker 6: that with her.
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  Speaker 3: And then I mean, I don't remember.
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  Speaker 4: I think we all just like after that is ritual.
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  Speaker 6: Things happened that I cannot for the life of me remember.
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  Speaker 6: For some reason, I think we were just so tired.
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  Speaker 6: I was like, let's get to this football game, and.
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  Speaker 3: Me and so many of my initiation class at that
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  Speaker 3: point just left or like went and got ready together
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  Speaker 3: and went to the game. And so it was really
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  Speaker 3: fun and it had memorable parts, but it was also
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  Speaker 3: a little I don't want to say creepy, but it
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  Speaker 3: was a little creepy and kind of trying to be like,
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  Speaker 3: what is this.
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  Speaker 4: It's so early, where are we?
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  Speaker 3: So it was a lot of emotions all over the place.
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  Speaker 4: I remember that I was in a sorority.
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  Speaker 8: I had a choice. There were five sororities in my college,
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  Speaker 8: and for me, it was between two, but I decided
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  Speaker 8: just to pick one and I matched there, so that
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  Speaker 8: was my choice, and so I was called a suicide bid,
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  Speaker 8: where you just pick one. If you don't get in
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  Speaker 8: that one, you're not on authority. So I just picked one,
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  Speaker 8: really excited about it, and we had a really beautiful
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  Speaker 8: mascot that I really loved and appreciated, just the sweet
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  Speaker 8: girls that I was with the initiation. The main thing
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  Speaker 8: I remember is we walked in. We had candles. It's
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  Speaker 8: kind of candles that you hold with a little thing
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  Speaker 8: under it, and we had white robes and walked into
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  Speaker 8: a dark room with just some candles around the sides
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  Speaker 8: and very quiet, very solemn, like a ritual, and then
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  Speaker 8: we all went into a circle, and we had our
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  Speaker 8: pledge moms behind us, so they were like supporting us,
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  Speaker 8: holding you know, holding holding on to us in the
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  Speaker 8: circle in the dark with our candles. And then they
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  Speaker 8: all started singing around us because they were all around
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  Speaker 8: us too, so we felt really safe in this room.
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  Speaker 8: And they all sang the song, the main song, which
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  Speaker 8: was for this sorority, and then the president of authority started
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  Speaker 8: speaking about the importance of getting together and the importance
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  Speaker 8: of our group, and importance of our sorority, and that
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  Speaker 8: we were basically in this, you know, for our lives,
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  Speaker 8: and it just it meant a lot to me. I
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  Speaker 8: don't remember a lot of the details because it was
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  Speaker 8: so long ago. It was in the nineteen seventies, so
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  Speaker 8: it was years and years ago, and I've had a
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  Speaker 8: whole life since then and a whole career and family.
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  Speaker 8: But I do remember the solemnness of it and the importance,
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  Speaker 8: and I did feel like this was something I was
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  Speaker 8: going to do for my life, that this was a
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  Speaker 8: group of women that I was going to be with
• 20:21
  Speaker 8: for my life.
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: And so I'm.
• 20:24
  Speaker 8: Still in my alumni group. We still have meetings, and
• 20:29
  Speaker 8: it has continued to be an important thing, not just
• 20:32
  Speaker 8: the one thing, but an important part of my life
• 20:35
  Speaker 8: and at my school, because I was in a department
• 20:39
  Speaker 8: that was more creative, I was the only person that
• 20:44
  Speaker 8: was even interested in being in a sorority. My roommates
• 20:48
  Speaker 8: were not in sororities. They used to just kind of
• 20:51
  Speaker 8: joke with me about that I wanted to do it,
• 20:54
  Speaker 8: and I knew I wanted to do it. There wasn't
• 20:55
  Speaker 8: going to be anything that was going to stop me
• 20:57
  Speaker 8: from being in this group because I wanted to have
• 20:59
  Speaker 8: a full college experience. And so once we went through
• 21:05
  Speaker 8: the initiation, and once we ended that beautiful circle and
• 21:10
  Speaker 8: we sang the songs, and it was just joining a sisterhood,
• 21:14
  Speaker 8: a sisterhood that for me has lasted my whole life.
• 21:18
  Speaker 8: With different women and we've all been through the same
• 21:20
  Speaker 8: experience together. We all know our ritual, we all know
• 21:25
  Speaker 8: the reason that we're in this group and the beginnings
• 21:28
  Speaker 8: of the of the sorority and the importance of sisterhood
• 21:32
  Speaker 8: and being supportive of each other.
• 21:38
  Speaker 9: So what I do remember is they locked us all
• 21:42
  Speaker 9: in a basement, all of the pledges and a basement.
• 21:45
  Speaker 9: It was like an overnight thing, and we had to
• 21:47
  Speaker 9: take a quiz on like the history of our sorority,
• 21:51
  Speaker 9: and we couldn't come out of the basement until we
• 21:55
  Speaker 9: passed the test. And then I remember the initiation was
• 22:01
  Speaker 9: just like a full like all overnight thing. And then
• 22:08
  Speaker 9: in the morning they we came upstairs and like all
• 22:15
  Speaker 9: of the you know, like the sorty sisters were dressed
• 22:20
  Speaker 9: in like all these like white like long gowns, but
• 22:23
  Speaker 9: they weren't like dresses, they were like sheets almost. It
• 22:26
  Speaker 9: was kind of strange, and we had to go in
• 22:30
  Speaker 9: three at a time to this room and then they
• 22:34
  Speaker 9: closed the door once everybody was in, and you sat
• 22:37
  Speaker 9: like face to face with your big wound up being
• 22:42
  Speaker 9: your big siss. I remember we kneeled face to face
• 22:46
  Speaker 9: and there was a bunch of like Latin kind of
• 22:51
  Speaker 9: like chanting things like songy sort of chance, and then
• 22:57
  Speaker 9: the president got up and spoke and gave us the password,
• 23:04
  Speaker 9: and then we learned the handshake, and then we kind
• 23:08
  Speaker 9: of like it was very somber and serious, and then
• 23:12
  Speaker 9: we all filed out after that, and then I really
• 23:16
  Speaker 9: don't remember much else after that. I also think it
• 23:20
  Speaker 9: was a long night, so I was probably tired.
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: There you have it. Forget the theories, rumors, and speculation.
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: You now know what really happens when a pledge officially
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: joins the Sisterhood.
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: If you have a.
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: Story to share, let us know and we will ensure
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: you remain anonymous until next time. This is dirty rush.