First, I LOVED Seventeen Magazine in the 80s..I waited for my subscription every month. (Does anyone remember the girl who used to write for Seventeen, Rebecca Asher...she would write from the first person about things she was going through as a teenager. Well now she's Rebecca Asher-Walsh and writes for Entertainment Weekly. At least that's what my friend who does PR for EW told me. Random Seventeen Reference..now I'm done.)

Secondly, I absolutely remember the article that CutiePie2000, 33girl, RedRoseSAI are talking about. In my faulty memory the rush was at Syracuse...but Cornell makes sense too. Wasn't one of the girls they were following around a Junior? As I remember the article made it sound as if rushing as a Jr. would be a better decision because you're more confident and socially adept. As I recall she loved AGD...but I don't remember if the article told you where the rushees ended up.

Okay, thanks for all those who reminded me of that article...I'm glad to know that other women have elephant memories for this kind of thing as well.

There was also a crazy article just about sorority life in Rolling Stone a few years back. I believe they were picking on Ohio State University in it. Not that the article had too much to do with recruitment, but just an FYI out there for those of us who dig reading sorority articles :)

I read the Rolling Stone article... it made some Greeks look pretty bad, however, I am guessing that it was pretty accurate (sadly enough). It also made some of them look good though, like some girls who were volunteering with, I think it was "Take Back the Night" but I can't remember.

They referred to sororities as intense Girl Scout troops with alcohol... that was pretty funny.

I know this thread is hella old but if any of you are looking for the Seventeen Magazine article on sorority rush, the January 1997 issue with the article is up for grabs on Ebay

I actually have a copy of that Sassy article. I got some vintage magazines from Ebay and that article was in one of them. It was very negative, I agree.

The IU 1992-1993 yearbook had a big feature about sorority rush. The story focused on the experiences of three rushees (one of whom had lived on my floor freshman year. She went Pi Phi, one went AOPi, and one did not get a bid) and the sisters of Alpha Gamma Delta, so you got to read about it from both sides.

OMG, where'd you find that??

Could it be any more snarky and stereotypical?

It's not snarky, it's SASSY! (insert Phil Hartman SNL skit)

What a hoot. When was that Sassy article written?

Frankly, I wouldn't put too much credence into the article. Right off the bat, there are some credibility issues in that Miss Mary Ann does not have her facts correct regarding UK (The University of Kentucky).

There has never been 21 NPC chapters at UK. Only 17 NPC chapters chartered with only 14 at any given time. I believe from around 1966 to 1977.

I just googled "Sassy, University of Georgia rush"

That article was ridiculous. She really irritated me. I didn't think that her article was anywhere near to a true dipiction of UGA's rush...err...recruitment.

Sister Havana - Could you tell us what year this article was printed?

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There has never been 21 NPC chapters at UK. Only 17 NPC chapters chartered with only 14 at any given time. I believe from around 1966 to 1977.

That was when she was talking about HER (the author's) rush experience. She goes on to say that the girls at UK visit 18 NPC organizations the first day of rush so there's only 18 present at the time of the story!!!! At least I guess she thought there was 18 because you say the most there has been was 17 so well, she got close I guess...

Your 100% correct. Only 14 max at any given time.

That was in the June 1993 issue.

Interestingly enough, although the sororities' names are disguised, the pictures make it pretty obvious which ones are which. The one in the picture with that article is almost definitely AOPi. There's another picture in the magazine with one of the three girls with her new pledge class and you can tell it's Chi Omega.

Yup. The house in the picture is definitely our AOPi house.

Also, the house they mentioned that used the kite during pref would be Theta.