The ceremony part confused me and the COB was off, but I have to agree. They did seem to get a lot of things right.

Overall, I enjoyed it. I like the "you know your people and you're our people."

Confused PNMs from a Lifetime movie should be taken as seriously as confused BGLO aspirants from "School Daze" and "Stomp the Yard."

Not. :)

Actually, my dorm room didn't look all that small in comparison to what's portrayed on TV/movies.

Sure, we only had room for twin sized beds, but we also had room for a couch. And we got very creative with making space where space could be made.

Many of my friends from HS were jealous of how large my dorm room was.

Now, the bedrooms in the on-campus apartments were another story!

Zoey 101 was filmed at Pepperdine, and they used the lounge in one of my old dorms as Zoey's dorm room. I suppose they need to do that in order to fit the camera equipment and everything.

Something that bugged me about the movie (beyond the jello shot prefs and blindfolds) was their pronunciation of Xi. They kept saying "z-eye". I've heard "z-ee" most often and the occasional "k-z-ee", but never "z-eye". Is this just an alternate pronunciation I haven't heard, or were they totally off? Would love it if someone could clear that one up for me.

But overall, yeah- not a bad movie. I wish the recruitment scenes and "late bid" info was ever so slightly more accurate, but it was entertaining and not a bad way to spend an early Sunday morning after I took my husband to the airport before the crack of dawn!

Zeye is the pronounciation I have heard the most actually. I occasionally hear zee, but never the Kzee.

"KSee" is the Greek pronunciation. "Zee" is the anglicized pronunciation. "Z-eye" is the Americanized pronunciation (just like "p-eye" (P), "f-eye" (F), 'k-eye" (C) or "s-eye" (Y)). Personally, I've always heard "z-eye" except from the groups that actually have the letter in their names (like Alpha Xi Delta).

I watched it and mostly liked it. I've hated most other sorority movies I've seen, so that's really saying something! I posted on my FB status that I was watching it and made some comment like, "Yeah, this is totally how recruitment goes...NOT!"

Weird about Katie being the only legacy and only having one ceremony. Ohhh many of those girls were so unpanhellenic!

You have to remember though, a lot of none greeks think of initiation when they think about ritual if they do at all.

When I learned the Greek alphabet, I learned it as "zee"- we didn't have any groups with Xi in their names on my campus, so that was pretty much my only introduction. I have heard one reference to using "kzee", a Kappa chapter that has Xi in its name and always pronounces the chapter name as such.

Is "zeye" a regional thing perhaps? Kind of like pronouncing Italian as "it-alian" vs. "eye-talian"? I was completely thrown off when I heard some people say that in college (in the midwest), I had no idea anyone said that (had never heard it in the northwest).... maybe it's like that?

For Phi, I have heard both. Like Pheye Delta Theta and Alpha Phee. I think someone told me that it can change when it's at the end of the group? Or maybe they were just making that up and it's arbitrary :D

Didn't mean to turn this into a pronounciation thread, but I am quite curious. I will at least remove Xi from my list of "WTF??" items in the movie since some of you have heard it frequently!

I think it's "ee" after a vowel and "eye" after a consonant. That's what I was told when I asked. But then I don't really know what to do about Alpha Phi Delta, for instance, because I've always heard it pronounced "pheye," but it comes after a vowel.

That's a Greek Urban Legend. I did a ridiculously long response but for some reason it disappeared. Everyone is probably better off. :D

I'll just refer to this old post of mine.

I wouldn't consider it a regional thing. The pledge manual for Theta Xi Fraternity gives zzEYE as the pronunciation. So do the websites of lots of Greek Life offices. (My fraternity's manual does as well, FWIW.)

It's a matter of preference. Alpha Xi Delta prefers zee. Theta Xi apparently prefers zeye. Alpha Phi prefers fee, while almost all other orgs that use F prefer fie.

I would like to mention I noticed the same thing with Upsilon. Psi U learns to pronounce it Yoop-Si-Lon while most greeks I have met pronounce it Up-Si-Lon