Magazine on ebay for Rushees
 

Okay I don't know if any of you guys are interested or not, but I ran across this while scoping out ebay today. It's a magazine with an article on rush week. It explains how the process works, as well as what the girls in the house are going through too! I have read this article and found it very helpful when I was a member fo a sorority rushing members for the first time. I only wish I would have known about it before I rushed! SO you may find this informative if you are rushing or a rusher! I found it at ebay and I loked under "sigma kappa" however you can look it up by the item number 1453559051. I hope someone finds this helpful!

Oh...the Seventeen Magazine article. I know that at one point, you could go on the Sigma Kappa site and read the article, since it was an SK alumna who went back to her chapter to look at Rush from the inside. It is a very good article, and it's unbiased without being critical. There's also a counterpoint article in the same issue. Maybe you can find it in the SK site? Or maybe it's on the Internet somewhere.

A lot of magazines have done articles about Rush. Sassy did a rather scathing one about rush at UGa, and Jane published an excerpt from a book called "Girls on the Verge", about Rush at UCLA. Although these two articles are critical of the Greek system in some parts, nothing about the articles is untrue.

I'm assuming that SK Nationals and the NPC approved of it--it was in my local Panhellenic registration packet. They had printed it from the Sigma Kappa Triangle--it was a copy, but the lavender stripes were on the pages.

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It is no longer on the Sigma Kappa website--This was due to I believe copyright infringement. However of that I am not certain. Anyways, I have read this article and I believe it is informative, and for ONCE shows rush the way it actually happens rather than the horror stories those awful TV movies tell you! This might even be helpful for you to show your parents so they can understand rush as well! If I can find my copy of this magazine I will try to make copies of the article, however with copywrite laws and such you would be better off getting this magazine from the ebay site!

I am just wondering if this is the article that is like seven years old or so. I remember reading it when I was either in middle school or high school, and there was a side bar by some girl who ended up in her seventh choice and hated it. Same one?

That Sassy article was HORRIBLE. They obviously went in there with their anti-Greek, PC point of view and nothing was going to change their mind. They never had any intention of not putting a slant on it. I believe it was called "Who'd Want to Join a Sorority?" You know just from the title that this is going to be anything but unbiased journalism.

One more example of a magazine that is supposedly pro-female, but only if the females share the "correct" views. A lot of young women were influenced by that magazine and it makes me sick to think how many of them were turned off to rush because of that article. I applaud Jane Pratt for wanting to have a teen magazine about something other than boys and clothes, but her and Sassy's standards were just as confining.

Wait a minute....what was the question? http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/tongue.gif

The 17 article was a really good one if I remember. It was mostly pros of rushing but I think there was a sidebar about bad rush experiences too. Which, I thought was the fair thing to do. It didn't cloud my judgement tho, bc I got the Greek bug then, in Middle School and started being really interested in going Greek. There's more info about it on the SK board and tells info about the article and how to get it from a library and what not...Sassy and Jane always are so PC...hate that!!!

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I think I have a copy of it somewhere in my files. Its an old photcopy ut if someone wants it I am more than happy to try to dig it out!!

SEVENTEEN also did a Rush article at Cornell University. It was fairly neutral, but seemed a tad negative'ish. I think it came out in September 1989 or so? I still have it, but WAH! It is at Mom's on the West Coast and I live in Toronto. Otherwise I would fax it to anyone who asked.

October 89 (it scares me that I know that). I thought it was good, in that it showed that sorority life wasn't for everyone and you didn't need to beat yourself over the head if you realized it wasn't for you. Seventeen also had an article in the fall of 85 I believe, that just gave the basics of what rush was and how it and sororities operated.

Sorry about bringing this old thread back, but does anyone have a copy of the article from Sassy about rush at Georgia? I had no idea there was one done about UGA and am very much interested in reading it!

Thanks!

Yes, if someone finds that Sassy article please send! I tried looking for it online, but had no such luck, and since the magazine is out of print, I wouldn't know who to contact about it. *Technically* maybe "Jane" magazine, but I'll prolly get made fun of in the letters section. :rolleyes:

Anyways, I remember reading that when I was in the 8th grade. Hehe...I was actually laying out in my neon-colored bikini with a friend, trying to impress her older HIGH SCHOOL (whooo!) brother at the time. It made a *huge* impression on me.....the article, not the 90's bathing suit. :D

The Seventeen/Sigma Kappa article (from 1997!) was one of the first pieces of pro-greek literature that I read, and it was definitely one of the things that first planted the idea of rushing in my head. It's a really good article . . . if anybody wants to read it, PM me and ask for it, because I'm pretty sure I have it typed up somewhere on this computer.

I ripped the Seventeen article out of the magazine and saved it so if anyone wants a copy of it just PM with your mailing address and I'd be more than happy to send it to you. :)

I remember that article! I even remember what the cover looked like...wow, glad to see I'm not the only one here who was reading Seventeen in the 80s :)

YM has also done Rush articles. I think they did one about UGA also, that was very pro-greek.

First, I LOVED Seventeen Magazine in the 80s..I waited for my subscription every month. (Does anyone remember the girl who used to write for Seventeen, Rebecca Asher...she would write from the first person about things she was going through as a teenager. Well now she's Rebecca Asher-Walsh and writes for Entertainment Weekly. At least that's what my friend who does PR for EW told me. Random Seventeen Reference..now I'm done.)

Secondly, I absolutely remember the article that CutiePie2000, 33girl, RedRoseSAI are talking about. In my faulty memory the rush was at Syracuse...but Cornell makes sense too. Wasn't one of the girls they were following around a Junior? As I remember the article made it sound as if rushing as a Jr. would be a better decision because you're more confident and socially adept. As I recall she loved AGD...but I don't remember if the article told you where the rushees ended up.

Okay, thanks for all those who reminded me of that article...I'm glad to know that other women have elephant memories for this kind of thing as well.

There was also a crazy article just about sorority life in Rolling Stone a few years back. I believe they were picking on Ohio State University in it. Not that the article had too much to do with recruitment, but just an FYI out there for those of us who dig reading sorority articles :)

I read the Rolling Stone article... it made some Greeks look pretty bad, however, I am guessing that it was pretty accurate (sadly enough). It also made some of them look good though, like some girls who were volunteering with, I think it was "Take Back the Night" but I can't remember.

They referred to sororities as intense Girl Scout troops with alcohol... that was pretty funny.

I know this thread is hella old but if any of you are looking for the Seventeen Magazine article on sorority rush, the January 1997 issue with the article is up for grabs on Ebay

I actually have a copy of that Sassy article. I got some vintage magazines from Ebay and that article was in one of them. It was very negative, I agree.

The IU 1992-1993 yearbook had a big feature about sorority rush. The story focused on the experiences of three rushees (one of whom had lived on my floor freshman year. She went Pi Phi, one went AOPi, and one did not get a bid) and the sisters of Alpha Gamma Delta, so you got to read about it from both sides.

OMG, where'd you find that??

Could it be any more snarky and stereotypical?

It's not snarky, it's SASSY! (insert Phil Hartman SNL skit)

What a hoot. When was that Sassy article written?

Frankly, I wouldn't put too much credence into the article. Right off the bat, there are some credibility issues in that Miss Mary Ann does not have her facts correct regarding UK (The University of Kentucky).

There has never been 21 NPC chapters at UK. Only 17 NPC chapters chartered with only 14 at any given time. I believe from around 1966 to 1977.

I just googled "Sassy, University of Georgia rush"

That article was ridiculous. She really irritated me. I didn't think that her article was anywhere near to a true dipiction of UGA's rush...err...recruitment.

Sister Havana - Could you tell us what year this article was printed?

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There has never been 21 NPC chapters at UK. Only 17 NPC chapters chartered with only 14 at any given time. I believe from around 1966 to 1977.

That was when she was talking about HER (the author's) rush experience. She goes on to say that the girls at UK visit 18 NPC organizations the first day of rush so there's only 18 present at the time of the story!!!! At least I guess she thought there was 18 because you say the most there has been was 17 so well, she got close I guess...

Your 100% correct. Only 14 max at any given time.

That was in the June 1993 issue.

Interestingly enough, although the sororities' names are disguised, the pictures make it pretty obvious which ones are which. The one in the picture with that article is almost definitely AOPi. There's another picture in the magazine with one of the three girls with her new pledge class and you can tell it's Chi Omega.

Yup. The house in the picture is definitely our AOPi house.

Also, the house they mentioned that used the kite during pref would be Theta.

It was after her first semester at The University of Kentucky (UK) that she "transferred to another college." The 18 chapters referred to in her article were "...when I followed three girls through the University of Georgia's fall sorority rush..."

In any case, her credibility is in question since there is a flat out inaccuracy right at the start.

According to the article, her experience started at UK where she claims there were 21 NPC organizations. There has never been more than 19 NPC chapters (17 current NPC sororities plus two defunct NPC sororities - Alpha Delta Theta & Beta Sigma Omicron) ever at UK. With the maximum number of NPC chapters on campus at any time being 14. In 1993 - when the article was written - there would have been 13 NPC chapters on UK's campus. And even if you added UK's NPHC chapters - which do not participate in formal NPC rush at UK - it would maybe total 16 or 17 sororities at the time. Still under the 21 number she claims.

Frankly, you would think she would know the difference between visiting 13 and 21 houses.

OKay, i loved the 17 magazine article. I thought that it was well written and gave a good view of rush. I just read the sassy article and i think that it is horrid. I think that the things that woman has to say are horrid and i now remember why i stoped reading that magazine in the first place. I could not beleive some of the things she said, especially about pay $600 in dues to become part of the group, but if you were poor then you could not be in. Well, my sorority did not cost that much in dues. oF course if you lived in you paid those expenses. Or the part about membership selection. If one girl says no to a PNM then she will not be invited. OKay, really really how rude. I know talking about membership selection is a nono, but i can say that in my sorority it would take more then one person saying no for a women to not get a bid.

It is really said that women would read this article and this that is how superficial rush is.

But that is just your chapter that didn't pay that much in dues, so you can't discredit the author on that. All Chapters at every school have a different amount for dues and a different policy. My chapters dues for the year were $600. I want to say we were in the middle of the spectrum, but I could be off. And many people did drop because they couldnt afford the dues, even with us working out payment plans and trying to get help for them.

Well I think I found the one positive for me from the Sassy article.. she refers to the ladies of UK as "southern belles," which is an absolute compliment! Some people forget that we ARE located below the Mason-Dixon :D

Thats true! Even I forget how UK can have so many "Southern Belle" types!

Are you an active Tri-Delt @ UK right now? One of my friends from high school is a Tri-Delt but she has gone alum now!

Like mu_agd said, just because your sorority didn't charge that much doesn't mean that none of the hundreds of chapters around the country don't charge that much or even more..

The sororities at my college, which had a very non-traditional Greek system where the university owned the housing, charged about that much for their new members to join. This not only included chapter dues, but also national fees, which, if I'm not mistaken, were about $500 or so. Then, chapter dues were about $300/semester. For the first semester of membership, you could not be on a payment plan.

Also, financial responsibility is one of the five criteria for membership in my organization (this is open information, lest anyone think I'm sharing membership selection information). That doesn't necessarily mean that if you're poor, you can't join--but seriously, you have to be able to pay, or make suitable arrangements to pay, your dues.

Ditto. I attend a school with a small Greek system and university housing, and our dues are structured in much the same way. $500+ dollars your new member semester, around $300 each subsequent semester. This does not include any meals or any living expenses other than a parlor fee. While we certainly don't choose our members based on their financial situation, you must be able to pay these dues on time to be a member in good standing.

I had always gotten the impression that these fees were around the middle of how much other chapters charge... many chapters charge much, much more.

Yes I am! I joined as a sophomore this past fall, and am loving every second of it!

I guess what i meant was not clear. The author was just stating a number, what does that number mean? Someone could read that article and say, "oh my god, i can not afford that much so why even rush." But the reality is that the greek system at her school does not have chapters that charge that much. My statement was not meant to say that i just paid less. I meant that not all sororities have that exact amount in fees as the article was comming off as that is the amount that all sororities cost. The author was making gross generalizations about sororities that do not apply to everyone. I know that you have to pay your fees to become a member. My sorority you had to have everything paid other wise you could not be inititated. My problem is the authors gross generalizations and how women reading the article would take these gross generalizations.

Hope this clears up what i meant.
debbie

Yep yep. My chapter dues are $340 a semester, and they're $450 your new member semester. And we have some of the lowest dues at Miami University.