In less than 48 hours August will be upon us again. With the turning of the month comes some good, and some bad…while the inconvenience of classes returns, so too does football season and band parties. This is the time of year that many students move into a new abode, whether it be the frat castle or an off-campus house, condo, or apartment. Unfortunately, it’s also the time of year that it’s miserably hot outside to those doing manual labor (i.e. moving a couch up stairs). As we have often said before: true frattiness is only attained when you try to frat hard in every aspect of your life, no matter how mundane or pedestrian. In this spirit, we now present the top 3 ways to move in to your new place the fratty way.
1) Pledges: They’re wide-eyed and ready to go into that easy road to fratdom known as pledgeship, right? Introduce them to the real world by creating your own personal “2 New Boys and a Truck” crew. We’re aware that some universities don’t allow formal pledgeships to begin until a certain date after school starts; in this case, ask, nicely, some guys who already have their bid to come help you out. The smart ones will be there.
2) Hire Somebody: Yes, it’s the easy way out, but a mercenary moving crew can turn “moving time” into “tee time”. Not comfortable with strangers moving your stuff without independent supervision? Get a pledge to come supervise; tell them about the pledge last year that let the movers scratch your table, and the fun he had cleaning the shower tiles with a toothpick.
3) Make it a party: This is the ultimate “work hard/play hard” option, and it can be just as satisfying as a day on the golf course while someone else does it for you. This is an especially good plan if you’re moving into a complex with a pool. Get some of your pledge brothers on board to help with the moving process. Next, you will need an Official Sorostitute Hydration Crew to continually provide you and your helpers with ice cold, straight from the cooler frat waters. When the last article of furniture is moved in, take it to the pool with the grill and the cooler to relax after a hard day’s work.
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A long standing tradition at the house has been the Work Party, held weekly at 4PM Friday. The root of this word comes from the fact that the goats work and the brothers party. The day and time of work party are not rigid and can be held generally whenever the hell a lot of work needs to be done in a short amount of time. Looking forward to watching goats try to lift a 500 lb couch up three flights of stairs.
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Amazing example of “make it a party” occurred last year during work week 2006: It just so happened that Wednesday of work week in the frat house was the end of formal sorority rush. What does that mean? hundreds of dick-deprived barely legal co-eds looking to get drunk 2 weeks before any freshman guys could move into the dorms. it may have been inconvenient to party in the halls that were filled with couches that wouldn’t fit through doors and some construction work going on down the hall. A girl even stepped in a bucket of paint and tracked it all over our halls, but at any rate, im pretty sure there were more sorostitutes staying over at our house that night than in all three dorms. Anyway, we just made the pledges scrape up the dried blue paint 4 weeks later.
The story spread and now there are a group of guys from both our K-State Chapter and KU chapter coming down for work week 07.
Any body have any ideas about the best fraternity at UVa, I saw someone say PIKE was good but everyone else says PIKE sucks. I am the first generation in my family to go to an American school (but have lived a comfortable upperclass lifestyle in Europe my entire life), which fraternity at UVa is the best for continuing a fratty lifestyle?
Jefferson,
UVA has good chapters that include KA, SAE, DKE, The Hall, Elmo, Kappa Sig, Chi Phi, Pi Kapp, Phi Psi, SPE, Sigma Chi, Pika there are more but really I should list the ones you should stay the hell away from. The Lodge, Phi Delt, Phi Society, Delta Sig, FIJI, ZBT, Pi Lamb, SERP, Sigma Nu, and AEPi don’t waste any time with these houses, and remember they may look alright from the outside but don’t scratch the surface. FIJI has a nice big house on Madison Rd. right next to bars but they were taking everyone’s picture during Open House and one of the brothers went out of his way to assure me that they “weren’t that house that throws flaming couches out of the window.” Good luck and enjoy your first year at the university, especially pledgeship.
Best,
Wahoo
like i said earlier, and wahoo did a good job…get an opinion on the fraternity locally before you shut them out…but then again, just go out and pledge the frattiest fraternity you see at the smokers, it’s that simple, just watch out for imposters
Wahoo, that’s a solid list, but you forgot to mention DU as well as ATO on your black list of UVA fraternities. DU may have one of the nicest house on Rugby Road, however, this is a result of Beta shooting a flaming arrow through a window their old house, thus burning it to the ground, and the de-chartering of Beta while DU moved into their house. Joining any of these fraternities is tantamont to throwing away four of the best years of your life. Jefferson, it would be a good idea to keep comments like “I have lived a comfortable upperclass European lifestyle” to yourself and I would recommend that you thoroughly review Rush 99 and the comments that accompany that article. I echo Wahoo’s sentiments in welcoming you to UVA.
I must admit I did feel very nouveau-riche and pretentious of me to say that but I felt that there was a need of some clarification to avoid being labeled a poor Polish refugee. Europe, after all, is a fairly large continent.
Beta shot a flaming arrow into DU’s house? That’s not exactly fratty, but it definitely radiates badass. Just remember to any emulators out there though, losing your charter is definitely not fratty. It will result in your campus prestige almost vanishing overnight, and it’ll take a few years to get it back and a few more years to get the hard fratting on track again.
Ah, move in week. Time to remove the beer-soaked carpets from last year.
Id say if you can’t fit everything in your frat-carraige, grab a brother, rent a u-haul and trek it down to whatever southern destination your school lies, then have a pledge drive your car back. Our spring pledges aren’t done for another 4 weeks after school starts.
I don’t go to UVA, but the Sigma Nu chapter there is our second oldest chapter. I don’t see how it could be anything but a fratastical chapter with all of the alumni support (money) it has.
Though the house is admittedly large and old, UVA’s chapter Sigma “Jew” can be distinguished by its fleet of Nissan Xterras parked out in front as well as its membership of roided out gel-heads. As a first year, my first experience at SN involved a brother sporting more hairgel than I ever imagined possible asking a first year girl in front of me if she knew anyone at the house. Her answer was “no” to which he replied “My name is Armani, now you do.” and probably proceeded to roofie her natty light. Needless to say I left and never came back. This is as bad as Sigma Chi, who have been seen in groups of 4-5 brothers sporting matching “Sigma Chi” logo Under Armor working out at the AFC. Also on the same level as Phi Delt brothers who are known to wear shirts that have sorority (third tier on down) names in block letters across the front. These outliers generally do not detract from the fratmosphere of UVA.
wahoo and sally, i have to agree with your evaluations of fraternities at uva. the list you populated for jefferson is a good start. one point id like to make is you tend to find douchbaggery even at some of the frattiest uva houses, even though they wont admit it. i also have friends in some of the lesser houses who frat alot harder than most. see what houses you can and make a good decision. also, sally, i believe zete’s cook burned down the du house on a bet after beta had already been kicked off campus. keep on fratting on at uva.
this dissapoints me
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