sorority life

After a year and a half of being a part of Greek life at Butler, I sometimes forget that some of the things we do are totally foreign and weird to the outside community.

candlelight ceremony.   When two people are dating for a really long time, they can choose to "lavaliere" each other. Pretty much means that the girl is now allowed to wear the boys' letters officially and is kind of considered a member of the fraternity. As weird as it sounds, it's actually just so great. It's like the college version of a wedding or engagement, which college girls are obsessed with...(check out our Pinterest pages).

We all stand in a circle, pass around a candle, and sing a really pretty song about sisterhood.

Then, the best friends of the girl being "lavaliered" slowly step out of the circle and led up to the girl. It's supposed to be a surprise, so when the candle finally stops in front of her, it's such a great emotional reaction. All of the sorority may or may not end up screaming and cheering. Then, the boyfriend and his fraternity brothers come walk over and usually sing a song, tell their love story, and kiss.

It is just too precious. Young love.


serenades.   Another Greek life tradition at Butler. Every time an organization has some sort of event to promote, they go around to all of the houses and sing songs, usually popular ones that they've changed the words to.

Last week was the Number One Serenade Of Them All. Our men's acappela group called Out Of The Dawg House...(get it? we're the Butler Bulldogs!) They are all beautiful people and we love to watch them and have them sing to us.

So, we all sit around the foyer in every available space. I'm pretty sure that every single girl in that room was googly-eyed and drooling a little bit.  

And then they sing. And we listen. And it's a wonderful way to end our Wednesday night. Their concert is on Saturday and you can bet that I'll be in the front row doing the same thing.