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Just thought I would share a screenshot from the page. Apparently Ole Miss actives are supporting it. Could all be fake, but I wouldn't know! (See below post, image didn't upload.) |
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Connections definitely help you, but as far as every single chapter having every single spot decided, no.
I would suggest reading this for more perspective about the "connections" factor: http://www.greekchat.com/gcforums/sh...d.php?t=135221 It's possible to get a bid somewhere without knowing people, but it is definitely helpful especially with so many PNMs in recruitment. I wouldn't lie and say that knowing people is not an advantage. |
1. You do not know who those people are. For all you know, a bitter 50 year old who was dropped by her legacy chapter in 1980 could have posted that.
2. Do they know some girls that would be great additions to their chapter? Sure they do. When I was in school, I had girls from my high school that I knew would be fabulous. Some of them pledged us. Some went elsewhere. Some dropped out when they didn't like their invites. 3. Are there girls they know they don't want. Sure. No one is just clamoring to give a bid to a girl who is almost guaranteed to be a risk management issue. Now, having opinions is a long way from having a bid list made. Very few people actually see the bid list. So while a group may say, "Wow. We need to get Suzie Super," if she's that awesome, everyone else is going to want her too. If a girl is so poorly behaved in public, even your so-called "bottom tier" chapters, as that site calls them, are not going to afford that girl the honor of their letters. Bottom line: That site is vile and any information gathered from it should be taken with a grain of salt. |
My only correction to the perfection that Missouri Ivy has posted is this.... make it a BUCKET of salt.
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From the Ole Miss Thread (Last Year)
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That site (we don't even like to mention it's name here) is horrible. Every year, I have to do some kind of damage clean-up because of something a PNM or mom read over there. One year, a girl I did a rec for almost turned down a bid from a chapter because of what she read there, and her mom was supporting her in doing so...they were so freaked out. Thankfully, she pledged and is so glad so did, but I'll bet some others have turned down bids to great chapters based on the hate and lies generated there. I also know someone whose daughter's name was posted and trashed. Someone here posted a few weeks ago that it's happening again to other PNMs and is quite bad.
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I stumbled across that site and I wish I never did. It's very interesting how it and GC are such polar opposites. Maybe it's because GreekChat is largely from the alumni perspective?
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I also think you are right about how GreekChat is. It's so much better and more professional. |
The gossip site has some very bitter and even aggressively ignorant or mean people posting things that are often untrue. Some of them are driven by allegiances that are worse than the Saints-Falcons rivalry. Everyone posting on that God-less place has an agenda and it is most often not driven by a Panhellenic attitude or goal. In fact, I believe it is more often driven by the things that non-Greeks would say are the proof which means there should not be a Greek Letter Organizations anymore.
On the other hand, GreekChat members care very deeply about the Fraternity/Sorority System, and want to keep the focus on the honorable goals and purposes, so as to make the System worthy of preservation. In spite of our allegiances we have an extremely vested interest in accurate information being available and in the health of the System. If we, the Greek Community, become something to be despised, then how long before the GLOs will disappear? We are only as good as the last good thing we did and the last bad thing we avoided out of care and wisdom. True for people, and true for the organizations to which we belong. And as trite as the saying has become, "We are always wearing our letters" (even when posting anonymously.) Be the change you want to see. |
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no no no no no. You are assuming facts not in evidence. The GC members who are currently actives in college generally take a low profile approach (with the exception of a fraternity member who loves to comment on sorority threads, and what is with that anyway? :p). There are a lot of active commenters who are currently in college/university. That site panders to the worst in people. If it was printed on paper, it'd be used for housebreaking puppies. Or wrapping fish. |
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IF everyone from a large CPC wrote one "Good luck with Rush" to one friend In Another NPC group - the rankings, and reading through them to find dirt -would be meaningless in about an hour |
Are backless cocktail dresses appropriate for pref parties at Ole Miss? How modest do the dresses need to be? The dress in question is evening wedding appropriate.
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