Alabama #RushTok: The phrases you could know

College of Alabama sorority rush season has formally began, which suggests it is taken over TikTok for the second yr in a row. In case your FYP is inundated with Bama Rush, however you feel overwhelmed by the ins and outs of recruitment, we have you coated. Here is all of the should know slang of #RushTok, defined.

Rush

Rush is slang for sorority recruitment week, which is when women familiarize themselves with the totally different Panhellenic sororities on their school campus and try to hitch them.

PNM

PNM is brief for “potential new member.” These are the women who will not be but in sororities and need to be a part of one.

Actives

Actives refers to lively members, or the people who find themselves already in sororities. Actives are those recruiting PNMs, in order that they work together with them throughout rush and finally determine which PNMs will make it to the subsequent spherical.

Recruitment counselors

Recruitment counselors are actives that disaffiliate from their sororities throughout rush to assist PNMs. Relying on the campus, they’re additionally known as Rho Chis, Pi Chis, or Gamma Chis.

Rounds

On daily basis of rush is a referred to as a spherical, and as recruitment progresses, the rounds change into extra formal and extra unique. Every spherical has a distinct theme, like sisterhood or philanthropy. After every spherical PNMs rank their favourite chapters, and actives vote on which PNMs shall be invited again.

Events

This one is straightforward sufficient to clarify. Every spherical consists of events at totally different chapters. On the primary day of rush, PNMs will attend each get together, and by the final day of recruitment, it will likely be narrowed all the way down to just one or two chapters.

Drop

When a PNM is not invited again to a sorority throughout rush they’re “dropped” from the home.

Sisterhood

Often one of many earlier days of recruitment, sisterhood day is when representatives from the chapters ship displays and deal with dialog matters that concentrate on their chapter’s distinctive sisterhood and tradition. A sisterhood encompasses the bond members of a sorority share and the occasions the chapter hosts for its members.

Philanthropy

Philanthropy is the spherical after sisterhood, the place the chapters clarify the trigger(s) they assist. The spherical can also be known as philo.

Pref

Essentially the most formal, and most necessary, evening of rush is pref evening. On pref evening a PNM goes to a number of events and votes for which home they need to be a part of — on the identical time, the chapters vote on which PMNs they need to be a part of their home.

Bid

A bid is the formal invitation to hitch a sorority.

Bid day

On bid day, PNMs discover out which sorority they have been invited to hitch, and it culminates in a themed get together on the sorority home.

Work week

Work week is the week earlier than recruitment, when actives observe.

Legacy

Legacies are women who’ve a familial connection to a sorority. Usually, they’ve a mother or sister who was additionally in the identical sorority.

Bump

Whereas PNMs are at a celebration, they’ll speak to a number of totally different lively members of the chapter. When one lively member interrupts one other lively member to start out speaking to the PNM, that is referred to as bumping. Bumps are pre-planned and usually comply with a rehearsed script.

Exec

Exec is brief for govt board, which is the dozen or so folks answerable for every chapter.

Soiled dashing

Soiled dashing is any form of motion taken by an lively or a chapter that violates the principles of their campus’ recruitment. One instance is an lively promising a PNM a bid.

Pledge class

A pledge class is all the women that be a part of a chapter throughout the identical semester.