Quick Pledging Question

ZFanatic · 10-19-2009, 02:01 AM

If I were to pledge a fraternity, how often will I find myself scrubbing bathrooms and beer soaked floors on Saturday mornings?

I don't mind doing it while I'm new, but I really don't want to spend the next 3 years of my life cleaning up vomit and beer, haha.

CB1278 · 10-19-2009, 07:29 AM

pledging is only a few months, so you'll being doing that (along with cleaning much grosser stuff) very frequently from jan-aprilish after you join and then you're done.

ZFanatic · 10-19-2009, 12:35 PM

Haha. Who does it the rest of the year? The youngest people in the house?
I'm cool with doing it for a while, but I'm not spending the next 3 years doing
it every weekend.

Prism123 · 10-19-2009, 05:42 PM

what pledging is like depends entirely on which house you pledge. When I was a pledge I don't recall ever specifically having to wake up on a Saturday morning to go to the house to clean the bathroom.

Anyway also who cleans the bathroom will vary from house to house but when there aren't pledges there will probably be a rotating schedule for bathroom cleaning so any individual person will only need to do it once every two months or so, however some houses may hire a maid that cleans the bathroom once in a while so the brotherhood bathroom cleaning wouldn't be that extensive, if you live in an apartment in collegetown someone will still need to clean the bathroom from time to time btw and although it will probably take longer to get dirty there are less people living together to do it so it evens out. Also vomit on the floor isn't usually that common of an occurrence, most people make it to the toilet or trashcan.

CB1278 · 10-19-2009, 10:08 PM

during pledging brothers will make gross messes with the sole purpose of having pledges clean them. also laundry, dishes, etc.
after pledging this stops but its usually the most recent members who rotate cleaning.
some houses have staff to clean but they still make messes so the pledges have to clean.
and i have seen vomit and pee on floors and other places more times than i care to think about

CB1278 · 10-19-2009, 10:10 PM

and i know this isnt true of all houses some houses treat pledges like princes blah blah blah, but when listening to my friends pledging in lots of different houses the cleaning was universal even when hazing was different everywhere. the truth is that in all of the mainstream normal houses pledges have to clean at the very least.

Prism123 · 10-20-2009, 06:43 AM

I never said I didn't have to clean stuff, just that I never had to wake up early on a Saturday morning to do it.

DaFunk · 10-20-2009, 11:58 AM

I can only speak for my own house... but after pledging I don't think anyone has had to clean a thing besides their own rooms.
It really differs from house to house.

oldfort · 10-20-2009, 12:17 PM

Don't you guys have cleaning people to clean the house? Tell me that you do, at least for the bathrooms.

somni · 10-20-2009, 02:26 PM

^ I think they said that some do, some don't.

campuscsi · 10-20-2009, 03:15 PM

i would guess that sororities might have fancier stuff than frat houses (which can often be pig stys)

i know they all have cooks? least they can do is the dishes D:

CUAmbassador11 · 10-20-2009, 05:41 PM

every sorority has a chef. sometimes, the sororities rotate a kitchen duty. in other chapters, however, the sisters do not have to do cleaning...except before recruitment

Prism123 · 10-20-2009, 06:13 PM

@DaFunk, how do the common areas of your house stay clean if no one ever cleans them?

chendrix · 10-20-2009, 08:43 PM

Haha, the point is they don't ever get or stay clean.

DaFunk · 10-21-2009, 12:10 AM

They do get clean. A number of fraternities have people come in.
How long they stay clean... that's another story.