:eek: You completely misread me, hun. I absolutely made no such allegations. Several have, and have stated their reasons. My comment was based solely on the story development and how long it is taking. I'm a mom helping pay my kid's tuition. If you had 5 papers due in the last two weeks, I am all for you getting them done, and I hope they went well!! I just don't understand starting a story on GC that you seemingly didn't have the time to write right now.

That's all I was sayin'. Thanks, SydneyK

Oh, I'm so sorry - I didn't understand what you were saying. I guess I jumped to conclusions too quickly.

FWIW I've seen PNMs on our campus bring their purses into the houses. However, a rho gamma does have to escort them to the bathroom if they need to use it.

for what it's worth, i remember bringing my purse into the rooms during recruitment.

PNMs can bring purses into houses at my school. Sometimes I wish they didn't because I have seen way too many of them texting during events...

-No one can think of ANY large school with a competitive recruitment that has 14 groups and multiple locals.

-No one has ever heard of having eight houses in the third round in such a recruitment.

Credible enough?

There are multiple people on here who work with the types of school you described, and at least one of them would have chimed in with "I know what school this is - I know it sounds weird, but it's true" when you started throwing some of these improbabilities out.

Maybe you don't understand the difference between a local and a national, or you meshed all the sororities of all types (NPC, NPHC, professional, service) together in your story, but that's the only way I can think of that this could be remotely true. Like SydneyK said, if you wanted to do this right, you really needed to do your research and not stray from it for the sake of livening up the plot.

You know, I'm usually pretty quiet on these "controversial" topics. But seriously, what does it hurt any of you if what she's saying is fake? I'm assuming it's true; but, even if it's not, it's not going to radically change my world. Yes, we've established that these are rules and norms you may not have experienced on your campus. It was worth saying once, or twice, or even three times (I'm being generous). After that enough is enough. These are recruitment stories ladies. Not witch hunts. Let me enjoy the story!

It doesn't "hurt" me at all.

However, what does it "hurt" for the posters to just own up to something being a work of fiction? We read fiction books, watch fiction TV shows and enjoy fiction movies. No one is opposed to fiction. What we are bothered by is someone trying to pass something off as true when it clearly is not.

Why does it matter? To me it matters because there are non-greeks who read these boards- PNMs, parents, etc. We deal with stereotyping enough as greek letter organizations and fight negative perceptions by those outside our groups. What we don't need is someone who is not a member of a GLO perpetuating those negative ideas by writing a story that claims to be factual. This particular poster has mentioned serving margaritas during recruitment, has a main character in her story who could not be more shallow or mean, and does not paint an accurate picture of what recruitment parties are like. (bashing each other in the bathroom? During the party? Please.)

I personally would have no issue if the poster simply starts with "What you are about to read is a work of fiction/embellishment of a real recruitment, but it still makes for a good story. I hope you enjoy reading it."

Again, please do not insult my intelligence. I know the difference between a local and a national sorority. And again, I'm not going to bother defending my story to you anymore, so don't bother criticizing it. People are going to believe it or they're not.

Who did you think you were posting as?

Wait. Who are you? Are you eaglesbaby?

Looks like someone has a few recruitment stories going on at once...

Not so sure about the part where nobody can seem to "place" the school and customs. However, my neighbor went to school in the Midwest and confessed to asking to use the bathroom during one of her house visits. She was not interested and had not connected with the group and says she still feels badly to this day because the active's facial expression went from enthusiastic to "Huh" in a second. So....she did use the bathroom without a chaperone or any type of formality. Sometimes things happen a bit different than some folks remember.

OK!!!!!! I am editing this to reflect that I gave the benefit of the doubt and did not doubt....until Eaglesbaby emerged as a split personality!!!! And I thought soap operas had cornered the market on the whole multiple personality thing! Eaglesbaby, Blondie....you, I mean the both of you, need a life!

I personally couldn't care less if this recruitment story happens to be true or not- but you do make some excellent points, Blondie93. GLOs have enough bad press as it is... and PNMs and parents are on this site. That being said, I wasn't aware of just how many PNMs are rather Rachel-ish until I started rush. But yeah... in the bathroom dissing, not so much in my experience. However, it is good IMO to alert people that bi$%#es like Rachel are really out there and to keep a thick skin, I like the way you deal with it in your story! And the Starfruit house is right there for you! <3

I'm pretty sure it's a fabricated story or at least only partially true (based on some aspects of her own rush experience). Either way, I love it!

looking forward to the next installment, please keep going! =]

I assume several GCers will be mad about not getting a conclusion, but I highly doubt Cybil, I mean babyblondie, will return... to either thread.

I'm puzzled so many people are dying to hear a story that's clearly a fantasy from someone who's dying for validation. But whatever.

OK, the gig is up, and I do owe you all an explanation. I am the same GCer as Eaglesbaby. Eaglesbaby = blondie20. I did go through recruitment and this is a real story, and these are all real houses, but I did not pledge any of them. I went through most of the pledge program once I accepted my bid, but I depledged near initiation because I absolutely did not fit in. So I pledged a local sorority later, hence the alcohol at recruitment events. I tried to start the same story on blondie20, with 2 being the locals I had not mentioned in this story.

Anyway, I do apologize, and for those of you who liked my story, I promise I will finish it.

Thanks everyone.

Eaglesbaby/blondie20

I asked the same question several pages back. Other than Srmom's somewhat comical response, I didn't really get a good answer.

And now we know why she has been too busy to finish her story.

Oh my gosh, yes, someone who couldn't keep the personas straight.

Eaglesbaby....you are awful...people gave you the benefit of the doubt. Earlier in the thread Kappamd, myself, and others were incredibly gracious and you are nothing but a clown. You know how the saying goes. Don't go away mad- just go away.

You mentioned two locals in this story.

You can't even go back and reread your own posts.

Because unless fake stories take place at schools with all locals, they end with PERPS. Perps piss me off.

There are no schools that did 14-11-8-3 in Fall 2008. 14-10-6-3 or 14-8-3. Another school did 20-14-8-3 but no 11 in there. None in Fall 2007 either. That's why I asked when this recruitment took place - but I was not answered.

seasoned GC'ers: I'm new to GC and I was wondering if people make up rush stories all the time?

lol, thanks! =]

:D:D:D

OTW is outdoing herself tonight. LOL! Sometimes your posts are painfully direct and not for the faint of heart- but tonight you're spot on!

I think that some of them are made up, but the majority are true. If they sound like Sweet Valley High books (like this did) they're probably fake.

The reason people get pissed about fake rush stories is the reason people got pissed about the book Pledged. If she wanted to write a fictionalized true story I don't think she would have got as much crap for it...but she kept saying that everything she said was true, and happened at one school, at one rush. Now people think that's gospel and what will really happen if they rush and join a sorority.

When this heffa crossed the line is when she gave advice to someone in an NPC group that, if followed, could have potentially cost that chapter its charter. Locals who are on campus with NPC groups, who are part of the college Panhel, KNOW that the alcohol rules that NPCs have to follow are much different than theirs.

Which is why this entire story is made up.

Right. I posted this story because I have no friends. More like to serve entertainment for the recruitment thread addicts. :)

Um...ok...hold on. SERIOUSLY? You're doing 2 made up recruitment stories? You barely had time to finish the first one! Ok...if we all stop reading both stories then there's no reason to continue, right?

I was wrong...I said it didn't matter before. But well...doing it once was bad enough, but twice? Yeah...theses stories are both off my list of reading material.

Would someone kindly post a REAL recruitment story. PLEASE?

Well, then don't bother to do it anymore because you're not very good at it. In addition, you're not very good at tracking your multiple personalities.

LOL

Have you all written your rush stories?

Mine's posted :) under a different name of course, but it's been posted.

lol, nice

When I have more time, I wanna do it! =]

I have on posted, but again, under another name, because my ending would have been obvious--I pledged a colony, and had asked questions in the sorority's forum with this name, so it would have given it away. Heck, I actually think people figured me out even though I had a different user name! lol

To be honest, I'm so glad this trainwreck started 10 pages ago because I FINALLY get to say this:

I'm just in this thread for the LOLs.

Wow..lol..now THIS is way more entertaining than a recruitment story!

Just when I thought, yawn "Another recruitment story."

Woo Hoo! So glad I took the time to read this. Now, if only Tom would come along and really get things going! ;)

Wow. What a strange turn this thread took...

O.M.G................really.............really? How bad is life that people have to come on here and make up fake recruitment stories. I actually LIKE reading these, and when stuff like this happens...............exasperating............

EXACTLY! Making up fake stories and insisting they're real is actually pretty creepy. And we've had other incidents when these crazies have taken it further, coming back to GC time and time again with multiple names and taking it into real life situations.

Kudos to LadyLonghorn and KSUViolet06 who had this gal's number by post #20 and #24 respectively. 33girl and OTW were close behind. I am going to listen to your Bs*** detectors sooner from now on.

Enjoy it!:D