Hee!

Although that ntn trivia stuff is nothing to joke about.

NTN Trivia is the greatest thing ever. Besides Naked Photo Hunt.

We voted last year about letting Zeta Delta Phi affiliate with Tri-Delt. All 8 sororities had to agree, and even if one said no, they weren't going to be allowed to come. From what I hear, not one person said yes. Our advisor strongly recommended we say no becaue quote would drop severely and we can't afford to do that.
Girls not receiving bids have nothing to do with houses getting full. Ceiling is 100, and you are allowed to have more than 100 girls if it's who you are accepting as part of quota.

I just find it odd b/c the zeta's (one chick was in rotc with me) went from just being founded to like 80 girls in two years. It doesn't really sound like a lack of numbers on campus, just another petty reason to not let some competition on.

I have no idea about the situation or this local, but even if they went from zero to 80 in 2 years, that's not a guarantee they would all stick around when they were colonized by Tri-Delt or whoever.

No, but it does indicate that there's a substantial number of interested women who aren't being served by the Panhellenic sororities presently there.

This is true as far as formal recruitment is concerned, but houses getting full certainly does have to do with bids being unavailable via informal recruitment, and the local members may be women for whom formal was a bad fit.

I completely understand why campus panhellenics control whether a national can come on campus to recruit for a ground-up colonization, but it does seem counterintuitive that where there's a large and growing local that wants to affiliate and an NPC that wants to take them on, the other groups on campus would say no. I mean, the local is going to exist regardless, and it's going to recruit regardless. To whatever extent the existing chapters would be harmed by a one-eighth drop in quota if Zeta joined DDD, aren't they equally harmed by a large local that can recruit PNMs all summer, give them gifts, etc.?

College Prowler is an interesting thing. Basically what College Prowler does is they search for someone to compile all their information, essentially it's their author b/c they come up with the introductions and synthesize all the information complied. With every section published in the book, the author has to get information. My friend was an author for my college and the way she got information was everywhere. One of the most unique concepts about college prowler is the students' response. I was part of the team that looked over general info and what not just to see if it was correct, just general stats here and there. My friend sent out emails to everyone with questionnaires (that college prowler provided, more like talking points) about various topics. I remember Greek Life was one of them. I remember the one question was what do you think of them? How does the campus think of Greek Orgs, etc...?

There were very vague questions and it depends what responses the author gets. I know that my friend tried to get opinions across the board so there is a balance, not an overwhelming attitude towards a subject.

My evasive point is that anyone can answer these questions if they can get their hands on them. I got the questionnaire and made a response based on essentially nothing b/c I was not exposed to Greek orgs that much, all I know it was not as stereotypical as first perceived and it didn't have much of a presence at my school. Also, if everyone thought Greek Life was atrocious and aligned it with the stereotype then the opinions are slanted and you may never know unless you go to that school. The answers and grades are not truly representative.

My friend did an awesome job on the book given of what she had to do and the resources available. I always think if you really want to see how things, go see it for yourself, don't rely on a grade to have the final say on what something is all about ;)

haha these are ridiculous rankings
This is how you do it:
SEC = A+
ACC = A
Wabash College = A
Miami at Oxford = A
All else, C's or below

I didn't know you were such an expert on Greek Life. :rolleyes:

I'm sure you didn't since you've never met me. These are obvious standards though. When greek life controls every social aspect of your school, you know it's good. When that same control is applied to about 1/3rd of the students, it's again, very good.

What is SEC? St Edward's College?? :confused:

hold on, you've got to be joking.
Southeastern Conference?

Florida, Vandy, bama, georgia, auburn etc...

I wish I could tell whether or not people are dumb or just joking on a message board.

Unfortunately some people are just...

DUMB.

Where is this Southeastern Conference College located? Or are all those other schools branch campuses of it?