See dirty rush on Wiktionary
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"text": "On October 24 Tsialas got dinner with his parents who were visiting campus for First-Year Family Weekend then attended a 'dirty rush' party hosted by the fraternity Phi Kappa Psi. Such parties are a way for fraternities to recruit first year students outside of official fraternity rules.",
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"text": "Cornell forbids fraternities from recruiting freshmen until their second semester, but the rule is broken often enough that it has a name: \"dirty rush.\" The party that night was called Christmas in October, and it was not the first time Phi Kappa Psi had held the event.",
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