Speaker 1: Welcome to Dirty Rush The Truth about Sorority Life with
Speaker 1: your hosts me Gia, Judice.
Speaker 2: Daisy Kent, and Jennifer Kessler.
Speaker 3: All right, guys, So we had such success talking about
Speaker 3: date parties that we wanted to do a part two.
Speaker 3: We got so many people that want to talk about
Speaker 3: the themes and the mess and the alcohol and the
Speaker 3: boys and the girls of all of it.
Speaker 2: So now we have Rosie joining us. Rosie, where'd you
Speaker 2: go to school? What sorority were you in?
Speaker 1: I went to Miami of Ohio in Oxford, Ohio, and
Speaker 1: I was at Delta Gamma.
Speaker 3: All right, so and I think you know we're talking
Speaker 3: about date parties. Yes, yeah, So tell me a little
Speaker 3: bit about what was everyone drinking at date parties? Was
Speaker 3: it always sort of a was it drunken madness or
Speaker 3: were they more contained your own personal experience.
Speaker 1: They were definitely drunk kind of madness because we weren't
Speaker 1: allowed to drink our freshman in software years at date
Speaker 1: parties because we were under the age of twenty one.
Speaker 1: But everyone would drink anyways, but you were the little
Speaker 1: ones were always on watch, so they were usually the
Speaker 1: ones that were going the craziest.
Speaker 3: Oh so, you say, like the freshmen and sophomores who
Speaker 3: couldn't drink are the ones that were probably pre party
Speaker 3: or what don't yeah, pregame whatever party, pre.
Speaker 1: Game like way too hard, show up, get in trouble,
Speaker 1: have to leave.
Speaker 4: But it's kind of just like a rite of passage
Speaker 4: at Miami.
Speaker 1: But we had this one bar called Brick and like
Speaker 1: Delta Gamo would rent it out or a fraternity would
Speaker 1: rent it out and we would all go and like
Speaker 1: drinks were like six dollars, like tequila, soda, vodka sodas
Speaker 1: or we had this drink called a trash can and
Speaker 1: it was a full red Bull and like six different
Speaker 1: li couurs like they literally would be like.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna throw up.
Speaker 3: I just just when you're talking about it is making
Speaker 3: the bio come.
Speaker 4: Oh I know, I know.
Speaker 1: And I literally when I was there, like we would
Speaker 1: like order them like crazy, and when we like graduated,
Speaker 1: I'm like, I cannot believe we would drink those like
Speaker 1: so gross.
Speaker 3: I just I know, like everybody drinks, not everybody, but
Speaker 3: young people drink a lot of red bull.
Speaker 2: So what does it do? So you get wasted? But
Speaker 2: it just keeps you up.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And it just it keeps you up.
Speaker 3: You're like, yeah, adrenaline of it.
Speaker 1: I feel like everyone would just like keep ordering them
Speaker 1: and then it would just get it would get messy.
Speaker 4: I mean by the end of our.
Speaker 1: Date parties, they were you would leave and then you
Speaker 1: would go bar hopping our to our like schools very
Speaker 1: much bars, right, so you could you would go to
Speaker 1: like Brick for the main function, and then you would
Speaker 1: go to like CJ's or Corner or whatever and continue
Speaker 1: to rosie.
Speaker 2: Did you ever get messy?
Speaker 4: Yes, I would, Unfortunately I would get messy.
Speaker 3: Were they always something you look forward to or were
Speaker 3: they ever like was it ever sort of high pressure
Speaker 3: to find a date?
Speaker 4: Honestly?
Speaker 1: So freshman and sophomore year, like I feel like we
Speaker 1: all were like, oh my god, like we need to
Speaker 1: invite boys, like we need to get our dates. And
Speaker 1: it was always like checking like the date doc because
Speaker 1: the girls you would put your name and put your
Speaker 1: date next to it, and it was like ooh ooh,
Speaker 1: like blah blah was bringing him, Like I wonder, like
Speaker 1: if they're a thing whatever? Right software junior year we
Speaker 1: went abroad, So I don't even remember our junior year
Speaker 1: date parties but senior year, like we wouldn't even bring
Speaker 1: dates because our guy friends would just show up anyways.
Speaker 4: So I feel like the pressure.
Speaker 1: Was on to get dates when we were freshmen and
Speaker 1: sophomore years, and then senior year it was like no
Speaker 1: one really cared.
Speaker 4: You would just go anyways.
Speaker 2: And was that more fun or less fun?
Speaker 1: Oh? I thought it was like so much more fun, wow,
Speaker 1: because everyone would already like be there, you walk in,
Speaker 1: see all of like the boy like all the boys
Speaker 1: that you're friends with already or like interested in, Like
Speaker 1: they would just go up anyways, which was so fun.
Speaker 3: So we actually had my daughter on, but she was
Speaker 3: saying that if she would get in trouble with her
Speaker 3: sorty if her date got too messed up, Really do
Speaker 3: you have that?
Speaker 4: No, No, it was only if we.
Speaker 1: Were okay, I won't forget like you like we were
Speaker 1: watched like.
Speaker 4: Hawks by like our standard chairs, right, and we.
Speaker 1: Would literally like get like if we would have like
Speaker 1: a drink in our hand, like she would come up
Speaker 1: and be like absolutely not, like to rip it out
Speaker 1: of our hands.
Speaker 4: Like we had to be very careful. Freshman software year.
Speaker 2: Did they care if you showed up drunk?
Speaker 1: Yeah, we would have to get called into standards. So
Speaker 1: if we were like even if we were at like
Speaker 1: a frat party and we were too drunk, I'll never forget.
Speaker 1: Like our software year, me and my best friend were
Speaker 1: at this this strat party with our guy friends and
Speaker 1: we both were like so drunk and we had a
Speaker 1: huge like foundation. The next day for Delta Gamma, and
Speaker 1: our standards chair was like.
Speaker 4: Go home home right now, like you're embarrassing us.
Speaker 1: They were kind of souls. Yeah, they were soles, and
Speaker 1: they literally sent us home. We were brought into standards.
Speaker 1: The next week we were like suspended for a date
Speaker 1: party and we're like.
Speaker 2: Okay, what exactly did you do?
Speaker 4: We were just like too drunk at the function.
Speaker 2: Okay, you weren't like stripping, you were.
Speaker 4: Just like yeah, it was just like a backyard party. No,
Speaker 4: it was. They would take it way too seriously.
Speaker 1: We'd be like, wait, we're not even talking to you
Speaker 1: guys right, like you guys have fun, We're having fun.
Speaker 2: Right our right.
Speaker 3: One last question, So I know that a lot of
Speaker 3: the day parties are themed, So did you do theme parties?
Speaker 3: Like did the sorties do them?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 1: It was mostly the girls that would do like the
Speaker 1: themed parties that were like super fun.
Speaker 2: And any of your any of them, like your favorites.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, wait, so we the guys would have this
Speaker 1: thing called Catalina Wine Festival or wine Mixer, okay, and
Speaker 1: everyone would dress up like they were going to like
Speaker 1: the real things. We would all be like cute little dresses.
Speaker 1: People were like hats and stuff. And then by that
Speaker 1: was like everyone was trying to get because that was
Speaker 1: the boys inviting the girls, right. We were fighting for dates,
Speaker 1: right we all And it was literally like so much fun.
Speaker 1: But like by the end of it, everyone, like the
Speaker 1: boys would be like completely covered in red wine, like.
Speaker 4: Such a mess. Oh my god, live band. It was fun.
Speaker 4: They would be like Y two K or like western All.
Speaker 3: Right, well listen, and it doesn't seems like that did
Speaker 3: not impede on your good time.
Speaker 2: The fact that they were not the only things, which
Speaker 2: I'm so glad about.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was a bless well.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much for joining us.
Speaker 3: The fact that hy two K was a theme, like
Speaker 3: I lived, why two K?
Speaker 2: It is so messed up?
Speaker 3: All right, guys, so now we have Christy, So tell
Speaker 3: me first, where'd you go to school?
Speaker 2: What sorority were you in.
Speaker 5: I went to school at the University Missouri and I
Speaker 5: was a Kappa Alpha Beta.
Speaker 3: So I'm thinking you guys probably had day parties. That's
Speaker 3: our theme today.
Speaker 6: We did.
Speaker 4: We did.
Speaker 6: We had two every semester.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 3: So yeah, that's so funny because it's so different at
Speaker 3: every school We've talked to someone who had them like
Speaker 3: every weekend, and so your sorority through too. Did the
Speaker 3: frats have them?
Speaker 6: The fraternities had them every once in a while. I
Speaker 6: just wasn't one of those people that went to them.
Speaker 4: And I'm going to.
Speaker 6: Use the term fraternity parties very loosely.
Speaker 5: They usually just kind of decided on a whim that
Speaker 5: they're like, Okay, we're gonna we're gonna throw a seventies
Speaker 5: party tonight. There are fraternities that did have like their
Speaker 5: spring formals, and that obviously was in the spring. Most
Speaker 5: of this fraternity formals were out of town, which was
Speaker 5: always kind of like the coolest thing to be asked to.
Speaker 2: Right, why didn't you Why do you say you didn't
Speaker 2: go to a lot of them.
Speaker 6: Because I just that wasn't really my thing. I wasn't
Speaker 6: that a cool kid.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, I.
Speaker 3: Love you now you're my favorite person I interviewed today
Speaker 3: and I interviewed my daughter.
Speaker 4: That's hilarious.
Speaker 6: Well, that's sweet.
Speaker 5: I also wasn't a big drinker in college, right, And
Speaker 5: I think again, I can only speak on behalf of
Speaker 5: my experience, but the university Misserio was kind.
Speaker 6: Of very clique.
Speaker 5: So like half, like a good portion came from Saint Louis,
Speaker 5: a great a good portion came from Kansas City, and
Speaker 5: a lot came from Chicago area. So there was kind
Speaker 5: of already a lot of cliques in college. I'm from
Speaker 5: out of state. I'm from Fort Worth, Texas, so I
Speaker 5: kind of knew no one going to school.
Speaker 6: So it wasn't one of those places that like, like
Speaker 6: a lot of people already had their kind of established friends.
Speaker 3: So did you Russian pledge your freshman year? I did, Yeah,
Speaker 3: So it wasn't a situation where you felt like once
Speaker 3: you were in a sorority, you were set, you had
Speaker 3: your best friends, and I think it took some time.
Speaker 5: Yeah again, I think you eventually made friends. I think
Speaker 5: I didn't feel like I've not belonged in the stroorty
Speaker 5: until probably end of freshman year, kind of beginning of
Speaker 5: sophomore when you at the University Missouri.
Speaker 6: We started to live in the house right sophomore year.
Speaker 6: But again I think it's I was a pledge class
Speaker 6: of eighty four girls.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 5: And then people obviously start to drop out, figure out
Speaker 5: that they can't afford it, or sorties not for them,
Speaker 5: or their grades can't hold it.
Speaker 6: Right, they want to transfer school. So I think.
Speaker 5: I was in THEATA all four years, so I think
Speaker 5: our graduating class was about sixty. So again I think
Speaker 5: once you start living in the house and you start
Speaker 5: to go to the events.
Speaker 2: And you start to feel more part of it.
Speaker 3: And do you remember any date parties in particular that
Speaker 3: were super fun or any that were not I know
Speaker 3: you didn't they weren't really your thing, but or like
Speaker 3: how about or even like what was so typically a
Speaker 3: date party the girls come back, you know, totally was
Speaker 3: There's tons of stories they came back, they were faced.
Speaker 5: Yeah, oh tons, So you'll think this is funny, and
Speaker 5: my mom sure thinks it's funny.
Speaker 6: I didn't go to a lot of the day parties.
Speaker 5: I was one of those who that worked check in
Speaker 5: at the at the event, so like I was, we
Speaker 5: had the table in our basement of our storty house,
Speaker 5: and we had to check in their names. Luckily, I
Speaker 5: knew who all these people were, but I had no
Speaker 5: idea who their dates were, and trying to get their
Speaker 5: names out of people like people, I was like, no,
Speaker 5: I need.
Speaker 6: To see your idea.
Speaker 5: I need to make sure you're twenty one people handing
Speaker 5: me these slices of.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, you're that girl, Kristie. I love the
Speaker 2: checking girl.
Speaker 5: Like having security call me us, having to get someone
Speaker 5: who was sober to drive us down to the venue
Speaker 5: that we had to like get people back because we
Speaker 5: bust people over there, right, we like imagine like a
Speaker 5: school bus.
Speaker 3: Right, there's one literally behind you as you're talking, Oh
Speaker 3: maybe yes, Yeah, that's so funny.
Speaker 5: We had to like shuttle everyone out, and so if
Speaker 5: someone you know, threw up on the bus who were
Speaker 5: so drunk they couldn't get off, like I was one
Speaker 5: of those people that had to go get them.
Speaker 7: Wow.
Speaker 2: I love that.
Speaker 3: That's I mean, I'm sure it wasn't as much fun
Speaker 3: maybe as your sister's were.
Speaker 6: Well, honestly it was.
Speaker 5: It was so funny and people that always did kind
Speaker 5: of the check in as I'm sure you know we
Speaker 5: had to have sober sisters, which we all know likely
Speaker 5: weren't sober, right, but like right, sure, and it was
Speaker 5: just funny to see like, up, she's back.
Speaker 3: Were there any or any of the girls just notorious
Speaker 3: for tons, Yeah.
Speaker 5: And I And then sometimes because I was on the
Speaker 5: check and table, I would then get the call on
Speaker 5: Sunday morning be like, hey heard you were there, Like
Speaker 5: can you like give us a statement or do you
Speaker 5: remember what happened?
Speaker 2: Like that's horrible. So you had to kind of rat
Speaker 2: out your sisters a hundred percent.
Speaker 5: I mean I wouldn't be like this girl she did
Speaker 5: this right, but I was like, well I was.
Speaker 2: There, like she was a little wasted or.
Speaker 5: Yeah, like all these other people were there, happened in
Speaker 5: this location like we fortunately did kind of.
Speaker 3: Did you ever meet anyone at one of the day parties?
Speaker 3: I mean you were so busy checking in one in
Speaker 3: any cute boys you're checking in?
Speaker 6: Oh, not that I can remember.
Speaker 7: No.
Speaker 6: I mean I remember going to my.
Speaker 5: First day party, which was the because it's a theme,
Speaker 5: I'll never forget. And again I went to the school
Speaker 5: in the University of Missouri, so middle of nowhere.
Speaker 6: The theme was duck calls and overalls.
Speaker 2: You elaborate.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so like you were essentially dressed in like hunting gear,
Speaker 5: Like we wore like cut off jeans and like camo
Speaker 5: print and I love that. But that theme was so
Speaker 5: fun because that was kind of the first time all
Speaker 5: like the freshman class was together and that was our
Speaker 5: first party, like meeting new people again. You were allowed
Speaker 5: to bring dates. I didn't, so like most freshmen just
Speaker 5: kind of went together, and I thought that was so fun.
Speaker 5: I mean, one thing that I do remember about going
Speaker 5: to New Nurse Missouri and day parties, as a lot
Speaker 5: of people didn't lean into themes a whole lot, and
Speaker 5: I think it was just because, like we were in
Speaker 5: college and like we.
Speaker 6: Had no money.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so like you see on TikTok these days of
Speaker 5: people going elaborate costumes, different casts for every every event,
Speaker 5: and I'm like, we just didn't.
Speaker 6: We didn't really do that, you.
Speaker 3: Know why, because the I think because the kids that
Speaker 3: don't have money, they don't give it about putting it
Speaker 3: up on TikTok. Okay, They're just busy doing their thing.
Speaker 3: But you're right, I see I see stuff on TikTok.
Speaker 3: Now I'm amazed at how much money and everything is
Speaker 3: so like the houses are over the top, and you
Speaker 3: know you see like rush and the girls are decked
Speaker 3: and the dances are choreographed and there's there's sets and
Speaker 3: props out and what goes on.
Speaker 2: Yeah, right, I.
Speaker 5: One funny story and I won't name any names, but
Speaker 5: I remember on my initiation night or the night before,
Speaker 5: all like kind of the freshmen, like they put us
Speaker 5: up in like a room so you can kind of
Speaker 5: get to know each other before you get initiated.
Speaker 6: The night and they had all of us.
Speaker 5: Go around and kind of give like your why, like
Speaker 5: why did you join a sorority?
Speaker 6: Like where are you from? Kind of thing.
Speaker 5: And one of the girls was like bursting into tears
Speaker 5: because she's from like a really small town in Missouri
Speaker 5: and to afford her sorority duce, she had to sell
Speaker 5: her cattle that she'd raised.
Speaker 6: Con stop like showing her cattle.
Speaker 5: Balling crunches, like but it's so worth it, like look
Speaker 5: at all the people I've met, like but like my cows,
Speaker 5: Like I had to sit like my parents couldn't afford this,
Speaker 5: but like I had, she had to sell her like
Speaker 5: prize winning cats come on a part of this and
Speaker 5: it like broke my heart and I remember it to
Speaker 5: this day.
Speaker 3: Hi, Danielle, So tell us where you went to school.
Speaker 3: Tell us what sorority you were in?
Speaker 7: Okay, So I went to school in Northern California at
Speaker 7: University of the Pacific. It's was super small, like foury
Speaker 7: five hundred people in Northern California.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And what sorority were you in?
Speaker 7: I was at Delta Gamma.
Speaker 2: Do you guys have date parties?
Speaker 4: We had lots of date parties.
Speaker 2: I called them.
Speaker 3: We call them mixers and matches. I guess they call
Speaker 3: them date parties.
Speaker 7: I don't really know if we had a name. They
Speaker 7: were just called parties where we got drunk.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah. But were there any specifically where you like,
Speaker 2: how to bring a date.
Speaker 7: You or you were invited by a date? So I
Speaker 7: guess there were date parties you were invited by a date?
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 3: So any themes that you remember, any ones that were
Speaker 3: like particularly fun or particularly.
Speaker 7: The number one party that we ever had was actually
Speaker 7: in Sports Illustrated on a regular basis for several years.
Speaker 3: What do you mean it was?
Speaker 2: Well, so Sports.
Speaker 7: Illustrated used to have They used to rank the top
Speaker 7: parties in the country for colleges, which they would never
Speaker 7: do these days. But back in the nineteen forties they
Speaker 7: ranked the parties, so the parties were ranked, and they
Speaker 7: were in Sports Illustrated, And we were in the top
Speaker 7: ten for three years, probably running a party that at
Speaker 7: our school had won the fratorneys.
Speaker 3: Okay, so do tell what made it so special that
Speaker 3: it got into Sports Illustrated. Besides, I'm sure that you
Speaker 3: all were so beautiful.
Speaker 6: Okay.
Speaker 7: Special is a really great word, but I would call
Speaker 7: it probably not at all okay these days. But the
Speaker 7: party was basically called Fireman's Fling, and you had to go.
Speaker 7: The guys all sat on a firetruck out in front
Speaker 7: of the fraterney and they watched the girls climb out
Speaker 7: of a window on the ladder and their butts were
Speaker 7: in the air with sayings on the back that weren't appropriate.
Speaker 7: And then they guys held up numbers like a gymnastics competition.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, mm hmm.
Speaker 7: And they raided you so one to ten. Obvious you
Speaker 7: want a good number, and your your underwear would say
Speaker 7: things like I'm not sure if I can say what
Speaker 7: they say, but they say bad things.
Speaker 2: About your date.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know you have daughters, so I know that,
Speaker 3: like you're because like I have, I have a daughter.
Speaker 3: But she always thinks she's so cool and she's been
Speaker 3: through more than I have, and like I've never like right,
Speaker 3: like she's like, like, I'm just I've lived under a
Speaker 3: rock for fifty seven years, right, And it's so funny.
Speaker 3: I hear this story and it reminds me of my
Speaker 3: own stories that were just like And also, by the way, ps,
Speaker 3: that would not happen today.
Speaker 2: You are right, that would not happen today. So like
Speaker 2: you wrote stuff on your ass, it was about your date,
Speaker 2: about my date, about my ass.
Speaker 7: Basically you'd write about like some.
Speaker 2: Sexual comments, right, okay, go on.
Speaker 7: I but said my gets hot for Scott.
Speaker 3: Oh it's that cute, so super weird, Yeah, prescious, right.
Speaker 7: You know, yeah, you know, so it's weird.
Speaker 3: We didn't stay together, but you're staying hot for Scott anymore.
Speaker 7: The party was super integrading, but we were so excited
Speaker 7: because it made sports illustrated.
Speaker 2: Wow, that is exciting, and those were the days my friend.
Speaker 7: And that of mine was huge.
Speaker 3: Listen, honey, I think it was still hot, not that
Speaker 3: I've seen it or want to see it, but well
Speaker 3: it's still hot but is better. Listen, but I love
Speaker 3: having you because I love you. Thank you for sharing
Speaker 3: you too. Okay, all right talker bye right