thanks for the update, olemissglitter!!

Good luck to the Ole Miss sororities! I can't wait to hear the results!

Not-too-favorable Article about U. of Tennessee NPC Recruitment

The article appeared in the Sept. 28 issue of a Knoxville weekly paper. Yes, sororities' names are used. People with UT connections will probably be talking about it, so I thought you SEC devotees :) ought to be aware. The author says she's older than the typical PNM, and went through recruitment, I gather, in order to write a story. Yes, she did get a bid, according to the story:

http://www.metropulse.com/articles/2...er_story.shtml

I thought that article was very well-written and gave a realistic account of what rush is like from a PNM's perspective. I'm sort of disappointed that she didn't even consider taking her bid, though...

it may not be 'favorable' but at least it's real and i really had to appreciate that!

- marissa

This makes me ill because she went through the whole process and knew she wasn't going to take a bid!! This sucks on all levels and it makes my heart go out to the AZD chapter who were waiting to see her in their suite. The one thing she didn't seem to take into account was their reaction to her not showing up!

What it sounded like to me:

I'm not going to like this, I don't want to like this, I'm not going to admit I might like this, I'm terrified to like this...

Not to mention the fact that she took a spot that could have been given to someone who actually wanted to join.

I think you're right. She was so concerned with stereotypes and trying NOT to fit in that she didn't even stop to think.... Maybe she could really have enjoyed being an AXiD. I think it was terrible of her to knowingly lie to all of them and then let herself sign a pref card knowing that she wouldn't take the bid. I know she said AXiD was a smaller chapter, but what if they took quota, and had to NOT give a bid to some other girl who would have put her whole heart into being a part of that sisterhood?

I think she does sound like she feels guilty at the end and I think she should.

i think that they could give out more bids than quota because they were under total, so that wouldn't have been an issue.

it was a well written article, but she sounded like she *tried* to get cut from all of the sororities. she mentioned several times that she hadn't brushed her hair for days. i am not saying that she needed to be dressed in the same outfits as everyone else, but please brush your hair!! i am sure that many of the chapters had to cut her because she was a grad student, too.

Sounds to me that with some of the intentionally rude comments she was making and questions she was asking, she should have been surprised that she got invited back anywhere at all. :(

After reading this article, I'm quite sure it is "thank you, sweet baby Jesus."

I'm also sure many chapters had to cut her because of being a grad student, and even if it wasn't a national policy, the individual chapters had probably never heard of such a thing since it is a traditional school.

While the article was not as bad as I was anticipating (or it could have been), she did not go into the situation with an open mind. She went into it as a journalist who had an angle for a story she was writing. And that's the perspective you get from the article. While it may be similar to what some PNMs experience, I don't know if it could be considered an accurate representation.

All-in-all, not a bad article. I did feel sorry for the women of Alpha Xi Delta.

Oh my gosh. I just read that article and thought... "How mean."

If it weren't for the way she refused to see anything but stereotypes, the way she planted a seed of doubt in another rushee's mind (the whole "buying friends" thing), and the way she left those AXiDs waiting for her, I might applaud her honesty.

But all I can think about is how cruel she was to those AXiD girls and how she refused to see any positive without throwing 2 negatives on top of it. I hope Alpha Xi Delta at UT has an AMAZING pledge class, and I hope the girl who fills the space left by Leslie is a perfect addition to their sisterhood.