A Fake PMN Just to Write an Article
 

A University of Tennessee @ Chattanooga student newspaper editor/reporter goes through Recruitment just to write an article...

http://www.utcecho.com/features/edit...ment-1.2570395

( In the print edition of the 9/8 issue, there are 2 Letters to the Editor about her "participation" but I could not find online versions posted on The Echo's website. )

That is two minutes i will never get back, ever. Her article...had no point.

womp womp

I was gonna say... she didn't expose anything, unless she had a wardrobe malfunction during pref. There was no point to that.

Ok, let me get this straight. This girl came back early, AND paid the recruitment fee, with no intention of pledging at all?

That's messed up. Not to mention incredibly stupid.

There are some comments if you scroll past the links to other articles.

gosh - recruitment is noisy, stressful and rushed. Who knew?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8rrIYevONQ

i was all excited, expecting this kind of juice ^

What was more upsetting to myself, and one of the Letters to the Editor pointed out also, is that she took a bid that could have been for another person.

This. That's what annoyed me the most about the whole article.

It only contained information that could have easily been found just by talking to someone or even searching on this forum, except with the writer's opinions injected.

I'm not sure if this is actually the case, but I get the feeling that she could have easily gotten the scoop by kindly asking panhellenic for permission to watch or something.

Besides being pointless, the article is poorly written. It had no conclusion. The author didn't draw any conclusions, disclose how far she got in the process, etc. Great job for Swiss cheese journalism!

This is funny. Bitter and reeking of rejection, and funny. Carry on.

Wow, good thing that's not a scenario that's going to play out over and over and over again later in life.

If you think rush is tough, try interviewing in this job market - to say nothing of dating, parties...

Everyone is making quick judgements all the time. You don't have to like it, you just have to work it.

Oh, and I'd one of the d!psh!ts making hiring decisions. Don't call me, I won't call you.

We had a "fake" PNM go through at TCU this year too. She actually DID disclose herself though and the student life staff was apparently aware of her as they were urging houses to keep her through at least the second round.

This PNM was in her mid-30s, had children, and was upfront with every girl who spoke to her that she was writing a book about campus life and was going through recruitment to better understand the process from a PNM perspective. She basically interviewed each member who rushed her during their time together asking questions about sorority life, recruitment, etc.

I give her props for at least disclosing her motivations... but I know our girls didn't keep her her after round 1. I'm not certain if anyone did, despite the urging of the university. No one wanted her taking the space of someone who could actually accept a bid!

I think the story of what rush is like is one that a lot of people would find interesting. It doesn't need to be an "expose" (really, it's not that exciting), but I think a person could tell a story worth reading about what happens. I remember reading a good one about a Northwestern University recruitment. She included the fact that she felt really bad about taking someone's spot, and she did not get as far as preference before dropping out.

And I think a woman, like the above, would be treated with courtesy and been given a lot of nuggets if she just asked. No, she couldn't sit in on voting, but I bet an ambitious journalist could get herself invited into the basement between parties, which would really be eye-opening to a lot of people who think these parties just magically HAPPEN.

Many, many years ago, there was a Sassy Magazine journalist who actually did sit in on MS. I suspect it was a local, but they were definitely part of a formal rush.

i believe that a few years back a young woman on the university of tennessee student newspaper staff went thru formal recruitment in order to create a story on formal recruitment.

I wonder which chapter got this girl? I would have been pissed!

First thing that popped in my head when reading this title: Jen K

/my only contribution to this thread

I had friends tell me about a 30-year-old with a family going through recruitment, but I had never heard of her true intentions. I do know from friends in sororities as well as one who was a Rho Gamma that she was released from all 11 sororities after the first day.

Ha! That is seriously hilarious. And it makes me miss that show.

<3 this... I *so* miss Greek!!!

Bahaha-Jen K!

I like that her only two sources are people who are not Greek- herself, and someone who dropped out during the new member period. Very well rounded in getting all perspectives covered.

DubaiSis, I recommend a book called "Girls on the Verge: Debutante Dips, Drive-bys and Other Initiations" by Vendela Vida. In one of the chapters she went "undercover" to rush at UCLA and went so far as receiving a bid.

I don't approve of her having done that, but it's actually well written and she didn't appear to have an axe to grind with the greek system.

I was going to mention this book as well. If I remember right she used fake info to sign up for rush, and really connected with a woman over Scandinavian literature. I think she went through all the way to bid day, even describing the painted cup given to her if I remember right.

There was also the book "Pledged" that went beyond just Formal Recruitment. I read it so long ago I don't remember much except it talked about a few sororities (unnamed of course) at a specific campus.

Oh good grief! Shades of Jen K, indeed! This story has been done to death already and in a far more interesting manner, to boot.

Any woman who participated in rush could have written this article. "It was stressful! It was hot! We were crowded! They made us line up to go into the houses! I talked to a bunch of women! I had to dress up!"

I feel sympathy for the sorority who gave her a bid thinking that she would be a sister, but with the level of brain power displayed by the writer, I'm sure they're better off without her.

Ugh; THAT book! Alexandra Robbins was so lazy doing her research. She called the sororities governing body the "Pan Hellenic" and she got my org's "secret password" wrong. Lazy!

Agreed.

Worst book ever written.
There are a couple of threads here on GC about that book.

Jen K! hahahaha

I'm currently watching the fourth season of Greek on netflix.

NO SPOILERS!!! ;D