It's about dang time that BET does something like this. I just know it's gonna be off the chain.

Like they said, there is "college life" and then there is "black college life". :D

Re: OMG
 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by exquizit
[B]If you knew Southern like some of us know Southern......:rolleyes:

I don't think people have any idea...I guess this means that they are going to cover the Classic and homecoming among other things...

:eek: I am scurred...This better work.

that's whats up! ill watch it for the scholarship $. and maybe the show wont be so bad...we'll wait and see...

I really don't see anything wrong with the airing of the probate show, because of the fact that it is done in public in the first place, just as it is done on many college campuses. IMO, I think that by airing the probate show, it will enhance the reality of campus life at an HBCU.

True Soror, it is a public showcase of new members, but personally I think there can be a fine line.

I was made in '99, and personally, MY probate show would have been UNACCEPTABLE to be aired on national TV.

I do think the reality show will be enlightening for others to see-giving a look inside an HBCU and all that comes along with it-, but honestly, I do get a bit nervous on the airing of the episode containing sorors and a so called "probate" show.

I'll be watching... and hopefully it won't be as bad as I'm assuming.

We'll check back in after the airing of the episode, and chat about it then.

Yours in Delta,

Showtime ~ Alias ~ 4titude_1913
4-ZL-F99

I understand what you are saying. I was in attendance at the probate show and I assure you that there wasn't anything done that was inappropriate. The sorors of Alpha Tau knew that they were going to be filmed so they did the show accordingly, not displaying anything that should not have been. IMO, I feel that they did a real nice job with the show.

Thanks for understanding my concerns. I love my sorors (everywhere), and I'm sure they did an awesome job.

Thanks for your personal account of the probate show, and I look forward to seeing it, as well as the new series.


4-ZL-F99

Even though I realize that BET is not synonymous with quality programming, I will watch because it does sound interesting and there really hasn't been a reality show that focuses on US.

I saw that commercial for this ladst night while watching "Coming to the Stage." I was going to give it a look see.

what frat?
 

Does anyone know what fraternity the character Gabriel belongs to that will be on the show?

Re: what frat?
 

Pi_Lambda_01,

I believe Gabriel is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.

That is the truth.....oh how I miss my HBCU!

It Starts Tonight
 

The show comes on tonight at 9pm ET.

I don't know why SU agreed to do this. Like all have said, what is taped and how it is edited is two different things. And what about the girl Kinda on there, her dad is the Dean of the College of Business. OMG! I think this show is gonna set black people back a few hundred years. I mean this show is at a institution of higher learning. What will white folks say about us now!

Yep
 

Sup Frat,
I would have to agree with you on that. Let's just hope the series shows us in a positive light. Based on the previews I've seen, it doesn't look like it.

jabari reminds me of someone. . . :o

Pregnant girl's baby daddy said that once he is 100% certain that the baby is his, he will move out of the dorms. Oh and he has a gold tooth.


I am officially embarassed.:o :o

I was thinking the same thing.... OMG they are so ghetto.

Kinda just SKRAIGHT UP embarrassed me. She does not wear draws. :o

Veronica (in scene with mom) did I see the DST shield on the bookshelf?


The football player is born again but has more than one girlfriend. :confused: I guess maybe not no more after this show is over.

Poor Jabari seems to be stuck in the wrong body....

No draws is OUT of control...

And how is "Pimp Daddy" critter from down under getting not one, but 2 girlfriends?

Oh this show is gonna have me embarassed for negroes everywhere....:rolleyes:

WHAT THA FORK ????

Yall, I love Southern to death, but really, I'm embarrassed as hell.:o

I graduated from there but I mean who in the hell is proud enough to say folks call her NO DRAWS??:eek:

Hiding my face in embarassment
 

I had to call my friends and tell them to watch our fellow black ppl embarass us on cable TV.:rolleyes: :rolleyes:

The cheerleader girl reminds me of Gabrielle Union

"No Draws" daddy works on campus. A dean no less :eek: Now the whole world will be calling her that. The shame!!! And she needs to wash her mouth out with soap.

I think I like the "snob" girl. So far

Jabari reminds me of this guy I work with. How many times can he say "Uh"??

This is a KUNTRY BUTT SHOW. it is HI- LARIOUS. I'm mad my roommate's not here to join me ROTFL.

ETA: The fight at the club??? Why???
If ND went wild in middle school, so she's calm now? Find your talent????? OH NO! :eek:

I had to ask CT4 if I sound that dayum country!!! I swear this is exactly what I thought it would be, but I was praying for better. I don't like the snob girl because she isn't all that cute to figure she's one of the finest on campus! BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

The cheerleader is actuallt a really cool person. She's always been friendly.

WONDERFUL & COUNTRYGURL!!!! Did yall see Avery?? CTHU

It comes back on in 2 hours. I am still just EM BEAR AZZZZZZZ EDEDEDEDEDED at this show.


I would rather watch My Baby Daddy on repeat and drink a 40.

Is that what she said - she's the finest?? See I didn't hear all that? Dayum phone:) I like the cheerleader too. The RA seems cool. Reaching for good things to say............................................... .................................................. .....................I guess that's it.

Maybe I'll stay up and watch the whole thing. I was catching up on what I missed of ANTM so I only saw the last 5-7 minutes and I was like

:eek: What the hayle hot skanky mess is this:eek:

I came in on the chicks at the club and saw the girl fight. :rolleyes: Lawd. The Edmonds saw fit to air this mess?

Ghetto Fabulous!!!!!! I do not know what was up with that show.......

:confused:

Ghetto fabulous in an understatement, Sphinxpoet!

This show is sooo degrading!

No draws is STANK!!!! She looks disgusting!

You did see the Delta Crest in that girl's house CT4! I peeped that too.

We'll see how this turns out.

I saw the Delta crest on the plate too. It was right next to a stuffed elephant.

I am just too embarrassed by ND. There are just somethings in this world that I don't need to know.

I guess SU thought that it was going to be "safe" because the Chancellor got to screen and maybe edit each episode. I don't know.


From the New Orleans Times Picayune TV Focus...

Southern University is ready for its close-up

Sunday January 25, 2004

By Dave Walker, TV columnist

A Stanford University graduate, producer Tracey Edmonds said she picked Baton Rouge's Southern University as the site of the BET network's first "reality" series in part because of Southern's reputation for extracurricular opportunities, including the school's sports teams, marching band and fraternity system.

The strong sense of family displayed by Southern's students was also a factor, she added.

"And also the sense of hope and optimism that comes from these students," said Edmonds, meeting recently in Los Angeles with TV critics. "These are students that come from really impoverished families, who have had to financially struggle to even be at college.

"It's an amazing, moving experience to be around these kids, where education is really so important to them, because (for) a lot of these kids, it's the first time anyone in their family has ever been to college."

Edmonds and her staff interviewed 600 of the more than 1,500 Southern students who applied to appear on the show before picking eight -- four men, four women -- for the final cast.

The final criteria for selection?

"We wanted to pick students that were going to be honest and uninhibited," she said. "And what we ended up with was eight amazing, diverse personalities."

Uninhibited?

That sounds like an invitation to typical reality TV salaciousness.

After all, the show's marketing catch phrase is, "8 Students + 1 Roof = 2 Much Drama."

Not to worry. Edward R. Jackson, Southern's chancellor, gets to screen and perhaps edit "College Hill" before it airs, said Edmonds, to ensure that the university and its students won't be portrayed in a bad light.

The pilot episode of "College Hill" was shot in May, though the bulk of the series' 13 episodes were done during Southern's fall semester, allowing several participants to visit New Orleans for the Bayou Classic. (Edmonds wasn't sure at the time of her meeting with the critics if rights issues will allow the Bayou Classic footage to be used in the series.)

Edmonds' mandate from BET was to capture college life as realistically as possible without injecting typical reality TV contrivances.

"We did not have to manipulate any story lines at all, because things just naturally unfolded and evolved," she said. "Every single day shooting this series, I could not believe the stuff that was just incidentally happening as we were shooting, and that the cameras were catching."

About any of which Edmonds refused to dish.

Preview tapes of "College Hill" weren't made available before this story's deadline, but the cast's makeup seems to promise conflict, an essential for compelling reality TV.

One, a cheerleader, is described in BET publicity materials as a "diva" and "socialite."

Another, a football player, is described as "a jock and a ladies' man."

One is pregnant. Another is a band member.

Other cast members are described, respectively, as "a smooth operator with an ulterior motive," a "wild child," a "spoiled-rotten rich girl" and, last but not least, "an academic genius."

"African Americans throughout television history have begged to see themselves in honest light," added Stephen Hill, BET's senior vice president for programming. "We did not manipulate -- we really just followed."

As an African American and graduate of an HBCU (Florida A & M University ) I find this show to be offensive and embarassing. I'm surprised that Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds and Tracey Edmonds would produce something like this. Also shocking is that Southern University agreed to let this mess be aired. I'm not saying that these situations do not happen @ HBCU's but they happen at all schools. We don't have to exploit it! But once again it's BET..what should I expect!

Unfortunately some people who did not attend an HBCU have a negative sterotype about these schools. They see HBCU's as the three p's. Partying, Pledging and Promiscuity! Why can't we be seen in a different light. HBCU's have alot of positive things going on. Why not focus on that and leave the drama to MTV and the Real World tv show. That's just my .08 cents

I didn't attend an HBCU.. but I am concerned about this show. What in the world was this!!! The production value of this show is horrible. It looks more like a documentary than a actual series. I was not impressed.:confused:

That's true. It did look kinda flaky and unprofessional.

Ditto. I was SMH throughout the entire show. :o

I was just too through when I watched the show!! I have never been so completely embarrased and digusted with a TV program. I had my doubts about the show but once I found out that the Edmonds were behind it I decided to give it a chance. After all, Soul Food's a pretty good show, right??

WRONG!!! I was ready to change the channel when the pregnant girl's boyfriend wasn't sure about the baby. The only bright spot was peeping the DST shield at Veronica's house!!

I wanted to pimp slap that Kinda, running around with no underwear on and sneaking into the boy's dorms. Just triflin', I tells ya, just trifling!!! And I was :rolleyes: at the born again dude with 2 girlfriends.

That show made me :mad: . I don't know if I will watch next week!!

Ok, I saw this show, and it is a HOT AZZ MESS!!!

The dude Jabari, I was saying to myself, if says "uh" just one more time I swear I will scream. What about when he was walking into the dorm, the pregnant chick was like I hope that is not the guy that wears the big shoes because he is crazy. Now when he walked in, why did that fool say that he wears a size 18 shoe, but the shoes are to big. He gets them very big because his feet swell. I mean damn they swell that much?! Ok, and he was just straight country........in the back of my mind all I could hear was Tommy Davidson saying "country drive you crazy" I forget which movie that was from.

The girl that was pregnat, I think her name was Sharondala or something like that. I mean she sounded hella-country, and when the boyfriend ( yes CT4) I saw that damn gold tooth as well said that once he knows 100% that the baby is his, then he will move out of the dorm....I was like what in the hayle!!!!

As for ND, she is a hot mess, and why doesn't her mom find anything wrong with this. The fact that she said they just call her No now is crazy. I mean her dad has no faith in her that she will succeed, and she is just giving him ammunition that she won't. First off, she would never in a millon years be at a school where I was the dean with her scandolous ND's azzself.

Snob girl does live in a very nice house. When I saw her drive off in a Lexus, I was like ok. I didn't peep the Delta crest in the house in the house.

This show is going to be a serious down fall to black people, and how non-blacks view us. I can't believe that Tracy and Face would find this to be entertaining.......this is straight bafoonery...(I know that's not a word...but y'all know what I saying damn it)

I'm computer challenged...
 

If someone knows how to post the pictures please do so.

On Bet.com on the College Hill cast page if you click on Veronica their is a picture of her and her mom and on the shelf behind them is an elephant and what looks like a plate w/ the Delta shield on it. I wonder which one of them is a Delta?

Also if you click on the predictions page for College Hill Delano is holding a jacket with a big purple and gold omega symbol on the back w/ the number 16.

From BET
 

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Meet Kinda From "College Hill"
By BET.com Staff

Personal Info
Name: Kinda
Age: 18
Hometown: Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Major: Mass Communications
Nickname: "Kitty," "Thunder Cat," "No"
Aspiration/goal: To be an actress/socialite, rich & famous
Biggest fear: Failing or being average!
Ideal mate: Pharrell or someone diverse, unique like that
Longest relationship (how long?): 4 months
Most prized possession: Wardrobe
When was your first kiss?: 13-years old
First Car: Black Mustang Convertible
Craziest care package: Sex toys
Sign: Pisces
Do you have any unseen tattoos/piercings? No
Ever been tested for AIDS?: Yes/negative results

Comparison
Ramen noodles or Hot dogs?: Hot dogs
Boxers or briefs (for men)?: Boxers
Thongs or briefs (for women)?: Nothing
Jay-Z or Nas?: Jay-Z
Ja Rule or 50?: 50
Tupac or Biggie?: Tupac
Pajamas or Nude?: Pajamas
Gollum or Yoda?: Gollum
Morpheus or Neo?: Neo
Bobby and Whitney or Will and Jada?: Will and Jada
Buy or burn music?: Burn music
Guilty or innocent? - MJ and R. Kelly?: MJ -- innocent, R. Kelly -- guilty
Good personality or Good looks? Good looks
Big butt or Big boobs? Big boobs
Beyonce or Ashanti?: Beyonce
Halle Berry or Christina Milan?: Halle Berry
Boris Kodjoe or Tyrese?: Boris Kodjoe
B2K or New Edition?: B2K
Bow Wow or Romeo?: Bow Wow
Bernie Mac or Damon Wayans?: Damon Wayans
Giving or Receiving?: Giving
10 overweight or underweight?: Underweight
Fame or fortune?: Fame and fortune


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Kinda
 

She didn't look that good on the show. She loooked tattered to the 10th power. Like a hot mess... :eek:

Issues
 

My issue is not the show itself but the selection of people that particpate in the show. Could they have chosen people who reflected more postive images of college life but if they got into drama that would have been better than coming in with Drama. :confused:

OK I am just confused by the point of the show is what I am really saying

Yesssssssss inphumpin' deed!
 

THAT IS AN UNDERSTATEMENT! :mad:

Thank the Lord for Drumline :D and A Different World! :D

I know Kinda's mom is in seclusion.

I see why our orgs won't agree to this reality-based chit. It's a hott azz mess!

Just think, the show is only going to depict them in a more negative light. It has to, to keep ratings. :o :rolleyes: :mad:

That girl's mom probably is a Delta.

ETA: Why did they go 50 miles away to the club in Lafayette?

I'm still SMH @ this one. Lawd, I was on the phone all night hollering about this...WTF

Wednesdays: I'll have to make it a BlockBuster night.

Embarrassed....