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Bama Rush

2023 · Film · documentary · 100 min

Directed by Rachel Fleit

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Follow four young women as they prepare to rush at the University of Alabama in 2022. Against the viral backdrop of #BamaRush on TikTok, and the long-held tradition of sorority recruitment at the University of Alabama, the film explores the emotional complexities and high-stakes of belonging in this crucial window into womanhood.

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  1. NeutraleesmithJul 24, 2023

    If it's of any help, https://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/22/education/edlife/prepping-students-for-sorority-rush.html from 11 years ago :

    > MARGARET KING of Birmingham, Ala., was at a loss about how to help her older daughter prepare to rush at the University of Virginia. In the South, where sororities have long been a momentous rite of passage, the road to sisterhood is long and not so clearly marked.

    > So Mrs. King, who graduated from Yale in 1984, before it had any sororities, enlisted the aid of Marlea Foster and Pat Grant, local consultants who had coached their own daughters through rush at Furman, the University of Georgia and Auburn University. Naming themselves the Rushbiddies, they opened shop in 2009 after hearing about the rush misfortunes of their daughters’ friends. About 50 mothers and their “chicks,” as the Biddies affectionately call them, attended one of their two-day workshops in April ($100 a couple), complete with mock rush party, wardrobe hints and paperwork prep.

    While I don't have access to the WSJ or NYT, commentary from 2012 on the NYT piece at https://washingtonmonthly.com/2012/07/16/sorority-consultants/ says 'Von Sperling apparently charges $8,000 for a weekend session, advising young women to “treat rush… as you would a job interview.”'

    There's more about Rushbiddies from the 2017 piece 'The Strange World of Sorority Rush Consultants', republished in 2023 at https://www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/arts-and-culture/a12108142/sorority-rush-consultants/ . It comments:

    > Following the premiere of the new documentary Bama Rush, we're resurfacing this 2017 story about the strange world of sorority rush consultants.

    That documentary is perhaps what inspired this WSJ piece?