Mom's a Pledge!!
 

Sorry, but I couldn't resist mentioning the cute ad I've seen 3 times today. It's for Boston Chicken or a supermarket, etc.

Mom is going college after being out for several years. At the end of the ad, her studymate asks her she has thought about "a sorority?!"


The first thing that popped in my mind was "What a GC topic, lol!!

Go Girl!!! :) :)

Re: Mom's a Pledge!!
 

Hey that's cool, and it shows that the advertisers are forward thinking that you don't have to be the stereotype and be 18, blonde and size 2 to be a sorority girl, you can go Greek later in life too!

That is so true though. My buds at Sigma Chi got some great pledges this semester and one of them is almost 30!! Hes awesome though. So it really goes to show you dont have to be young to be in a Fraternity or sorority!!

Nichole

I love it! Makes me think of all the "older guys" that came back from WWII and pledged; 3 of my husband's uncles did just that!

What a cute idea! BC doesn't advertise here. Of course, the next step could be "hell night". I can just see it...

Very cute! Thanks for sharing. ;)

Angel(a)

Re: Mom's a Pledge!!
 

It's an ad for Publix supermarkets (huge chain in the SE). I saw it last night and my hubby says.."There you go - a positive media image!"

Barbara

For our Fall 2001 Pledge class, we had a girl who is in her 30's, married, and a freshman studying criminal justice. A lot of our girls still talk about her behind her back, they haven't given her a chance to show herself etc. She is now our treasurer and is very strict, she's doing her job soo well, now more then ever she is getting more and more remarks. I think it is totally wrong for them to talk about this sweet lady.

I can't imagine being in my 30's and wanting to hang out with a bunch of 20 year olds.....I just don't see someone older fitting in, it's an age thing, we're just in different places. My chapter has a one year live in commitment anyway so you couldn't be married or anything anyway.

One of our brothers is like 27. Another one is 26. They are both graduating. The one guy is our number one. He started the fraternity here.

My boyfriend's fraternity had a member that was almost 30. (And he dated, or tried to, girls our age!) We all found him a little creepy and wondered why exactly why he wanted to be in a fraternity. It wasn't as if he joined as an alum.

On the other hand, back in the day, Greeks were all kinds of ages. One of our founders was already a widow, and another was 16! Maybe we would have found it less creepy if it was more common nowadays.

On third thought ... I think HE was just creepy, period, regardless of being in a fraternity.

Oh to hell with the hippocrits
 

HATING the greeks who bitch about , <in my stereotypical greek whatever voice> "oh ma god, alls the media does is portray us as snobby?!"?!?"

And then some of us bitch about how they wouldnt accept someone who isnt 18-21. If ya'll dont want the stereotype, dont fluckin act it. k? Geez. FYI , the college demographic is CHANGING. the day of the 18-21 year old is OVER. If your org is even planning to excell in the 21st century, ya betwer damnyn well accept the fact that the future of college life looks alot different than the past of college life. I.E., thre future of greek life looks a lot different than the past of greek life. The stats speak for themselves.

Older members make great assets. I was initiated with a guy named william who was 36! He had been in the millitary, then ran a real estate co. for several years before going back to college and moving into the house and going greek. He was a hella better brother than some of the fools I got in with. MESSAGE PART II, "I'd rather have a brother/member as an officer who has a bit of life experience and can handle crap thansome ass 18 year old with ZERO life experience. In todays Greek World, theres no room and/or time for on the job learning. Sorry, but lifesaver is too busy to play kindergarten teacher. I've had enough of holding hands and wiping noses.

edited for politeness

no offense Lifesaver but in defense of my sister above (AXWhoah), someone older would not have fit in to my sorority at A&M either. UTSA is a commuter school and many of the students that go there are older-as my brother was, he was 28 when he graduated. It does not work that way at A&M and probably other large universities.
I am sure older students do make a great asset but some schools just are not accepting of that. Maybe someday in the future.

I can just see it-
"Mrs. Robinson goes GREEK!"

Refering to "The Graduate" for those who are too young to know!

As a 23 year old pledge, I can say that age does have a benifit. At 18 I was irresponsible, and not the kind of girl who could make any contribution to any group, let alone one that works such as the GLO's do.
My sisters are happy to have me, despite being 5 years older than the rest of my pledge class. I agree with the above poster, that times are changing, and at some universities that means the greeks have to change as well.

Trojan Girl

Understood (interestingly enough, I wasnt initiated at UTSA, just transferred there from another more traditional university). I might have been a bitharsh on AXOWHoa, I had a few drinkas in me... Seriously tho. Even at A&M, as is everywhere, the demographics are changing. Yeah at UTSA, or other metropolitan universities, we are the first to see that shift. It is happening natioonwide. As greeks we better be prepeared to adapt, or dissapear. There are enough factors threatining ourr existance without our help internally. At my ritual, I didnt take any oaths in respect to soemones age. Just to attract new members. If soemone doesnt fit, they dont fit, but I would hope that everyone would be given the same consideration and due process during recruitment. Dont wanna pass up a diamond in the rough.

When I was a pledge, we had a sister who was "older" at 23 or 24. Now at my age that makes me laugh! She was as good a sister as anyone else regardless of age. I agree with Lifesaver, demographics are changing and we will have to adjust in order to keep up.

I don't actually think that was the point of the ad
 

I think it's excellent that we all think that this is a message for going greek later in life.

Perhaps I'm just being cynical, but I think that this ad is thought to be successful b/c the mom is obviously not 18 and a size 2. Boston Market may have been going for a joke, or just to have it seem as though the mom hasn't been "caught on to yet" (would have to be a pretty young looking mom :))

Now I haven't seen the ad, so I may be completely off base but that's just my $.02

Talk about a Sweetheart of Sigma Chi! ;)

J/k!!

Wow you guys give me so much hope. Here I am thinking that 22 is too old to go back to my chapter, and you have brothers and sisters way older than that. It makes me think that there is hope after all!! :D

I dont think it matters how old you are when you rush. OK Im the youngest one in my sorority's chapter! Im only 17 and theres one other girl who's 17 also but shes older than me :( oh well I know Im the baby but its alright with me!!

Nichole

I thought I smelled a bit of whiskey on your breath or was that Shiner Bock (the choice drink for my birthday). Anyways, I agree also that being older has its benefits, I did not pledge until I was a junior. When your older you are somtimes wiser (not always though), I definitely had my sh** together. I am not sure how rush is at A&M now I bet aggie DZ could tell us and I would be intrested to know if the sororities are more open to accepting older students b/c when I was there they were not.

Over the entire 14 class history of my fraternity, only 15 members were initiated as first time freshmen. The rest have been older college students who decided to put off joining until later or transferred to CSUN and then decided to join LSP.

An AVERAGE of 1 per class was a freshman?! There were many classes that had NO freshmen, and the most recent Xi initation had 3, the first time we had 3 at the same time since our founding year!

Older people definitely contribute much to a greek organization -- heck we've even had a 40 year old join!

-MK

I don't believe that you can be married and an active memeber of Tri Delta, i think you have to go alum when you marry, but we do have some older girls. Our chaplin, there is a pc name i just lost it for a minute, is 25 and amazing, she has been here since her freshman year, but she had to take a few years off to work to pay for school. There have been other girls who pledged when they were 21 and didn't grad until 26, and they were all amazing, we haven't had any older ones though.