Sunday, April 22, 2007

Sasha Baron Cohen Visits CU's sorority recruitment, Jan. 2008

Erica's post inspired me. While I definitely agree that Sasha Baron Cohen, as one of any of his characters, would elicit pure hilarity from Cornellians at a frat party or outside CTP post-bars, I think a visit to Panhellenic recruitment (sorority rush) at the end of January would be the kind of expose only he could properly portray satirically. I can imagine him showing up to a sorority house as Bruno critiquing the hard-fast attire imposed by the formal recruitment chair up at Panhel. In case anyone isn't familiar, the dress code is pretty much jeans, sweaters, and flats day 1 and 2, dress pants or skirts, heels or boots and tops for days 3 and 4, and fancy pants or dress for final round. The dress code applies generally to sisters as well as rushees, so it's basically a week-long fashion show. Considering sisters in some houses are sent home for what they choose to wear to rush, and some potential new members are, in fact, judged by their outfits during the rounds, Bruno would literally have a field day.
I can also picture Borat joining the festivities to learn a bit more about the whole structured process of rush, which I won't get into in this post. However, I will lend credence to the fact that Borat would pee his pants if he could be involved, even as an innocent bystander, while chapters vote on girls.
If I had to give Ali G one role as a guest at rush I'd place him as the hot chocolate man. Every house at Cornell offers rushees beverages during the rounds, and, clearly every house needs someone to make the hot chocolate or coffee or whathaveyou. At our house, a lady from nationals always helps out during rush by making our hot cocoa, and Ali G could totally fill in for her and have a blast just listening to what people say behind closed doors. If I were a producer during Ali G's visit as a part-time hot chocolate man, I'd for sure script him to put nasty shit in the pot.
Sometimes just thinking about what Sasha Baron Cohen has allowed himself to do makes me feel evil. He's the devil on his audiences' shoulder.

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