{"id":115,"date":"1993-10-21T08:21:28","date_gmt":"1993-10-21T15:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jeffcarl.com\/?p=115"},"modified":"2020-06-20T17:33:56","modified_gmt":"2020-06-21T00:33:56","slug":"the-rushin-revolution-fun-with-karaoke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jeffcarl.com\/index.php\/1993\/10\/21\/the-rushin-revolution-fun-with-karaoke\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rushin’ Revolution: Fun with Karaoke"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Jeffrey Carl<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Jeffrey
University of Richmond Collegian, October 21 1993<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

It occurs to me now that topical humor from college campuses nearly 30 years ago does not age well. I’m sure it was absolutely hilarious at the time, though. Enjoy!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A lot of people do a lot of complaining about Rush, the process by which fraternities and sororities accept new members. It seems that the University\u2019s administration is perpetually changing the rules or whatever and nobody\u2019s sure if it\u2019s dry or if they\u2019re allowed to put lemon flavoring in the kegs or what. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, I, for one, really dig Rush. I firmly believe that Rush is one of the best things you can do with your time and that it isn\u2019t in the least an enormous hokey waste of time or something like that. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In fact, I think that it shouldn\u2019t be just Greek organizations, but that all campus organizations of any kind should have a Rush.  Imagine the benefits to society in general.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rush is usually composed of several nights of schmoozing events, followed by an invitation-only or preference party and then a day when invitations to join (bids) are given out. For example, my fraternity\u2019s Rush schedule this year looked pretty much like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Day 1:<\/strong> Get-Really-Drunk-And-Forget-Everybody\u2019s-Name-You-Met-Last-Night Party, 8:00 P.M.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Day 2:<\/strong> Acoustic Night with a depressing folk singer, 9:00 P.M.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Day 3:<\/strong> Meet the Brotherhood Awkward Conversation\/Binge Drinking Party, 8:00 P.M.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Day 4:<\/strong> Guys-Only Invitational Sausage Party, 4:00 P.M.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Day 5:<\/strong> Bids Extended\/Frenzied consideration about whether we were telling you the truth about pledging just being our putting stuff on your doors and buying you presents or if we were really pulling your leg<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or something like that, anyway. This truncated membership induction process is obviously the scientifically-concluded optimum way to meet new members, or else the administration wouldn\u2019t have mandated it. So why doesn\u2019t everybody do it? What might it be like if everybody had a Rush?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BETA BETA BETA (Biology Honor Society) RUSH:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Day 1:<\/strong> Special Lab Section: Can You Break Down the Amino Acids in Taco Bell?, 12:00 A.M.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Day 2:<\/strong> Dissection Night with Milwaukee\u2019s Beast, 11:00 P.M.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Day 3:<\/strong> Karaoke Night, 9:00 P.M.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Day 4:<\/strong> Bids Extended\/Lab Reports Due<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“THE WEB” (YEARBOOK) RUSH:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Day 1:<\/strong> Get-Crazy-with-a-Keg-of-Shasta Party, 4:00 P.M.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Day 2:<\/strong> Karaoke Night, 9:00 P.M.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Day 3:<\/strong> Rock with Web house band, “The Typos<\/em>” 6:30 P.M.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Day 4:<\/strong> Bids Extended<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Day 9:<\/strong> Bids Received<\/p>\n\n\n\n

UR WRITING CENTER RUSH:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Day 1:<\/strong> Meet the Third Person Plural Construction Cookout, 2:00 P.M. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Day 2:<\/strong> Karaoke Night, 9:00 P.M.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Day 3:<\/strong> Acoustic Night with Writing Center house band, “The Passive Voice<\/em>” 3:00 P.M.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Day 4:<\/strong> Bids extended\/Spelling and grammar mistakes corrected and returned<\/p>\n\n\n\n

UNIVERSITY COMPUTING RUSH:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Day 1:<\/strong> Karaoke with Herbie Hancock Night, 3:00 P.M. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Day 2:<\/strong> Guess-Where-in-the-United-States-are-the-Macintosh-Parts-You-Ordered-Six-Weeks-Ago Party, 5:00 P.M.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Day 3:<\/strong> Get-Zany-with-a-Keg-of-Intel-80486-33MHz-Microprocessors Party, 1:00 A.M.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Day 4:<\/strong> Bids E-Mailed<\/p>\n\n\n\n

JEPSON SCHOOL OF LEADERSHIP STUDIES RUSH:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Day 1:<\/strong> Invitational Karaoke Night, 9:00 P.M.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Day 2:<\/strong> We-Have-the-Most-Expensive-Lodge-On-Campus Party with Jepson house band “The Rolling Stones<\/em>” 7:30 P.M.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Day 3:<\/strong> Drinkin\u2019 Malt Liquor with Norman Schwarzkopf Party, 3:00 A.M.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Day 4:<\/strong> Bid Applications Due<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CAB (CAMPUS ACTIVITIES BOARD) RUSH<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Day 1:<\/strong> Karaoke Night, 8:00 P.M. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Day 2:<\/strong> Acoustic Karaoke Night, 8:00 P.M.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Day 3:<\/strong> Zydeco Swamp Music: Okeefenokee Karaoke Night, 8:00 P.M.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Day 4:<\/strong> Bids Extended by Karaoke<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WILL (WOMEN INVOLVED IN LEARNING AND LIVING) RUSH:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Day 1:<\/strong> Equal-Rights-Does-Not-Necessarily-Mean-Mandatory-Castration Cookout, 2:00 P.M.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Day 2:<\/strong> Acoustic Night with depressing feminist poets, 8:00 P.M. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Day 3:<\/strong> Karaoke Mixer with VCU Men\u2019s Studies Department, 8:30 P.M.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Day 4:<\/strong> Bids Extended\/Information and Bitc … I mean, Complaint<\/em> Session<\/p>\n\n\n\n

INTERVARSITY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP RUSH:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Day 1:<\/strong> Meet Your Maker cookout, 4:30 P.M.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Day 2:<\/strong> Fish and Loaves picnic, 2:00 P.M.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Day 3:<\/strong> I-Found-the-Lord-and-Lost-my-Talent: Christian Rock Night, 7:00 P.M.*<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Day 4:<\/strong> Bids extended by the Angel of Death<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Day 7:<\/strong> Day of Rest<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wouldn\u2019t life be much more exciting? I suspected as much. The point of all this being that Rush is a really fantastic thing and I don\u2019t think that it\u2019s possible to take it too seriously and it is obviously something everybody should do all the time or at least complain about profusely. Seriously. I\u2019m not kidding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, maybe I\u2019m kidding a little<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

*Special thanks to P.J. O\u2019Rourke<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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