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Even with alum hindsight and experience, I occasionally have to surpress a "whaaaat?" reaction to some GC posts. There still can be a sudden jolt when news of recruitment difficulties (low numbers, hard to make quota / compete) or serious trouble with the law is posted, and the GLO(s) in question are ones that are "top" house or milk-and-cookies / straitlaced ones at my campus or at the university in my home town. |
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I feel like the guy who created this video was trying to make it appear like a look at the process from an outside, unbiased view but really he was just trying to perpetuate his own anti-Greek system view.
I agree, many of the things the rush chair pointed out are completely true, but I still have to wonder how someone who was so involved with her chapter could become so cynical so fast (it says she was a 2006 graduate) and feel the need to 'warn' pnms of the horrors of recruitment. I also agree that if someone followed around more pnms and had more interviews with people in different positions it would make a great tool for educating pnms about the REALITY of recruitment, instead of showing the process in a consistently negative light. |
Coming from the perspective of a pnm it kinda dampens the excitement for recruitment. Didn't really get the point of the "I say [insert greek letter here] - you say ho/slut/Bush supporter/ etc segments. Aesthetically I would have liked to have seen it follow Allie through all the rounds- skiping straight from the round one montage (sp?) to "she joined Tri-Delt" left me with a wth feeling. But 'interesting' on the whole, I guess.
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Ditto about following Allie through the rounds. I also was kind of upset about the focus she said we have on physical beauty, because that definately has not been my recruitment experience.
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Here is the thing....
Many reps are deep seeded (especially at Northwestern). Usually it's not many girls who make a rep like that. Some reps are from single events that happened so long ago that no one knows that is where they came from, except alums. As you can see, Allie didn't even fit the reputation that was on the video about the sorority she joined. Of all the girls in that house that I know, I only know one person who could be interpreted in the stereotype. (She goes a little overboard sometimes.) The others are some of the most calm and collected people you could know. That policy really goes for every house in the way I have known them. It is maybe one person per 20-30 people in the house that gives the rep. (At NU) The reps are also in the process of changing with the changes happening in the Greek system. There has been a lot of pressure from the administration to change the party attitudes. This has resulted in quite a few Greek houses to be put on probation for a year and still others potentially being kicked off of campus. Could you imagine not being able to do anything somewhat social for a year, much less go underground? There has been a war path, and I plan not to be in the way by just not being in the situation in the first place. |
Like all documentaries, there are a lot of facts being presented, but also you have to be smart enough to see the overtones the producer or director has about the issue at hand. Obviously he has an anti-Greek sentiment, while attempting to present this as a documentary of what it'd be like to rush a sorority. It's sad to see that's how the process is, but the ideal alternative-having each girl meet each girl in the house, have a small get together with each sister of the house, is quite impossible. I hope somebody comes up with a better system of selecting girls.
I was not too involved in our Spring rush this quarter, which was a traditional rush and I pledged during an informal rush quarter [winter], so I don't have too much input on the frat's system of rushing. I think we do a fair job of meeting all the potential guys though IMO. |
I always found it really funny when people who go to colleges that accept fewer than 20% of their applicants and charge $40K a year (with fewer than half of the students receiving any scholarships) have the chutzpah to call the Greek system "overwhelmingly elitist."
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The problem is that there can be a lot of division based on money. The school honestly is a school of higher end labels and if you are one of those people that are not part of that group....I could see why they would be a little ticked. I will say that the school, overall, does do a good job with making sure that everyone there can afford it and gives money when people ask for it. One thing I have seen is that the school is divided with people "for greek" and people "against greek" with a small percentage in between. Though the sentiments lie with being anti-greek, he did represent some of the feelings and opinions of the school. Honesty, I think that a lot of the anti-greek sentiments are from a lack of understanding and/or a bad experience. The whole greek system represents some of the best students on campus, but it is definitely a closed and private system. Whenever there are groups like that (Masons, Elks, etc.) people start to think impossible things, usually not good ones. Most people who want to be in the system can IMO. It is stupid to have your heart set on one certain place because you will end up where you are meant to and be happier with it. |
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Look, I went to two universities that could be considered "peer institutions" of Northwestern. The things that were said about the Greek system being elitist, "buying one's friends," etc., were the exact same things we had to face up against during Recruitment. The irony--or maybe hypocrisy--of that situation is that it's hard to call someone else out for being elitist when you're attending an Ivy or another highly selective institution. That's what I was discussing--and then you went off on this weird tangent. |
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Both my alma mater and Anonymous's sorority are elitist institutions, but I feel quite differently about them. Personally, I'm very comfortable with Ivy League faculty members judging my SAT scores to see whether I qualify for an academic challenge. I'm not comfortable with fellow college women judging my hotness to see whether I qualify to be BFF with Anonymous's sorority sisters, especially if they won't admit that they're doing it. |
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