Wake Forest Bid Day
 

Today, January 12th, is BID DAY at Wake Forest University. One of my friends is a Gamma Rho Chi, I'm not sure if I'll be able to get any details out of her today but I thought everyone should know! Best of Luck to Chi Omega, Delta Zeta(colony), Delta Delta Delta, Kappa Delta, Kappa Kappa Gamma, Phi Mu and Pi Beta Phi and their new members today!

I have a friend of a friend that may pledge Phi Mu... I think she preffed there... I also have KD and Chi-O friends there, and my best friend in the world is a GDI there. :) When I'm not at college I live like 40 minutes away from Wake. I'm interested to hear how the DZ colonization went.

Quota was 47, and all but two groups made quota. DZ got 32 girls. If you want more details - pm me.
ETA - These numbers do not include snap bids.

This article confirms everything I thought would happen on campus....

sounds like a win...win situation.
congrats

I'm really surprised at the level of detail this article went into regarding the numbers/quota situation. I've never seen this type of detail before published outside the Greek community. Is this normal for other campus newspapers?

I was also surprised they used exact numbers. I've never seen this before.

Me too! Here I am trying to do the politically correct thing! Oh well - so much for that!

I'm sorry my fellow sisters of Phi Mu didn't match quota, I hear they are a wonderful group and always get quality pledge classes. However, I am a little concerned that the numbers would be published in the school newspaper. It doesn't surprise me that Kappa Delta, Tri-Delta, Kappa, Pi Phi and Chi-O did well, they have for a # of years. Delta Zeta's colony has a strong start which is always good. Hopefully my Phi Mu girls can COB to the pledge class quota!:)

hey ladies-
didn't this happen in the fall? there was a webpage that had each sorority and the names of each girl they got. i think it was univ. of alabama or u of auburn? i think that was more shocking than this.
it made it more obvious how well (or not so well) chapters did.
i think it's ok to post results when chapters are close in #'s but if they're not, it's very inappropriate. how will they ever get rid of the (false) idea that they're not a good sorority?:confused:

It was University of Alabama. Had the GLO, the girl's name and hometown

auburn,too
 

Auburn also had the names and hometowns of each new member of every group listed.

It helped me see where the girls I wrote recs for pledged.

Our school newspaper publishes the number of women each house pledges... along with the percent increase/decrease in new member class size from the previous year. They do the same for fraternities.

At FSU, each sorority tends to take out an ad in the paper saying "We love our new pledge class!" and listing the girl's names... it's always fun to find out where horrible girls you rushed ended up, and where your rush crushes ended up.

Auburn used to--and may still--put out a post-rush booklet with group pictures, names, and home towns of the new PNMs. One of the fraternities did it as a fundraiser and the guys on campus snapped them up so they could see who they might want to ask out or check out the girls they'd been asked to blind-date. I'd be at the Fiji House and the guys would say, "Fix me up with THIS one!", pointing to a Pi Phi's picture.

Does anybody else find this really really creepy? It seems way too appearance-based.

I wouldn't call it creepy. It was just the way that the pledge classes were announced. Other schools announce them in the paper or online, some with pictures and some without. There are tons of sorority websites out there now that have their new members' and active members' group and/or individual pictures and names and I don't see how it's any different.

Because those aren't sold to fraternity guys who are looking for dates. I found that practice creepy, not the pictures themselves.

I think that posting personal info for literally the whole world to see is a lot creepier. I know several chapters who've had to remove pictures, names, and/or email addresses because of all the random creeps who contacted them.

The post-rush book doesn't bother me. You could pretty much find the same information -- picture, hometown, major -- in the school's yearbook. My university also put out a yearbook just of freshmen at the beginning of the school year. And it sounds like the men weren't approaching the girls directly, but asking their active sisters to introduce them.

What does raise alarm bells is when I see a sorority Web site with pictures, names and e-mail addresses of its members. Now that could be dangerous.

I think it all depends on how big of a deal Greek life is at the college as to whether the paper writes a story on it (as opposed to the individual groups taking out ads, which I think almost everyone does). At a school like WFU where Greek is a big deal, the majority of the campus wants this info. At someplace where the Greek population is very small, the paper would have a hard time justifying a big article about who joined unless they did that for every org.

Just to back up what my sister PreppyGirl said our school does post the numbers, and all the sororities take ads in the paper for their new members' names. Also I know for a fact that at both Wake and my school at the beginning of the year there is a "facebook" published of the freshman class. Since both Wake and W&L have deferred rush, these books are essentially used for the same purposes that carnation was mentioning. I don't find it particularly creepy. It's a great way to get to know your class and put faces with names.

So anyway, if you go to a school where the majority of people are Greek, or at least a large number (not sure what Wake's numbers are but W&L is 80%), it's not unusual to find numbers, names, etc published in the paper.

Is Wake still planning on expanding with another group?? Does anyone know?

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Is Wake still planning on expanding with another group?? Does anyone know?

With two groups missing quota -and one by a significant amount I would be shocked if the campus decided to expand.

Publishing the names in the paper welcoming the pleges/new members is pretty common where I went to school (and still advise). But I've just never seen that level of detail about all the numbers. I've seen comments about 'this is our largest new member class ever at ##' by certain groups, but never a detailed breakdown.

Then again, our campus is maybe 25% Greek if that and I guess that makes a big difference. It was just really surprising, but hey at least they're getting the coverage for recruitment!

Well---to put it mildly--me too.

A while back there was the discussion of the DZ expansion at Wake. It seems like everything went decently well with their colonization, which I'm happy for, but based upon my knowledge of the campus (which is pretty strong), I wasn't sure they were totally ready for expansion at that point. I wish the DZ the best, of course, but I just wasn't sure it was the right time.

At the time that DZ was offered colonization, another group was also offered colonization, after a timespan of a few years. I was just curious as to what the status of those plans were.

Alpha Delta Pi was extended an invitation to come back to Wake. There have been no final decisions made at this time.

I definitely find it creepy !

A few months ago when I was looking through old ADPi chapter scrapbooks, there were newspaper clippings that basically looked like a list of all the new members that each sorority recieved during recruitment. It was pretty interesting! I learned there were once some other NPC groups on my campus

I'm totally hijacking here, but this is how my roommate's parents met! She was looking through the Greek yearbook and saw his picture and decided she wanted to meet him, so she went to his fraternity's party and had a friend introduce them.

Tri Delta Bid List
 

Tri Delta has updated it's member's page on their chapter website:

http://www.wfu.edu/Student-organizat...t/members.html

Creepy? Not really. It's not any different than looking at a composite of a chapter and doing the same thing. It may be appearance-based, but that's often what attracts us to someone in the first place. Now, if it were some weird 85-year-old guy a la Blue in Old School that was saying "fix me up with your sister", that I would find creepy! ;)

But we don't hand out (or SELL) our composites on the street. I'm just picturing some XYZ frat daddy buying the rush booklet and being like "Oh Caitlin from Mobile in Pi Phi is pretty hot, I'll have to go to our swap with them...oh eew Tri Delta took some dogs this year, we'll be blowing them off...Oh! Look at this one in Kappa. I better call that girl from Kappa I met freshman year and make sure she doesn't still hate me so she can hook me up with this hotty." I'd think it was so creepy if a guy came up to me at a party or swap or whatever and was like "Hey, you're Kathleen from Suburb, right?" I'd be like "WTF? How do you know that?"

I don't think the guys let just anybody buy them. I can see your point, I guess it just wouldn't bother me! And, unfortunately, some guys are exactly how you described. Those are the ones you just ignore! :)

Kath, I think you're just mad because when creepy fratties start hitting on you and you tell them your name is Tiffany, they'll be like, "No, you're Kathleen. Don't lie to me. I saw you in the pledge book."

Foiled!

Anyway I think the idea of printing pledge's pictures in book and selling them is not such a good one today, but for the time that it was in, I don't think it was such a big deal.

Oh, that jolted my memory--when the guys did it on our campus, the girls were the ones that supplied the info, so if they didn't want to give out personal info, they didn't. I think we used the main house line as all of our phone #s (even though most of us didn't live in the house yet), and there were some girls who obviously made up names and hometowns, not only from my chapter but from other chapters as well. Both Fraternities and Sororities were published in the book.

Hmm... I wonder where mine is???

Bwahaha, you caught me. You're actually right - I'm sure at the time when carnation was at Auburn and they were doing this, the guys would be more respectable about it, and like ISUKappa said, they all used the house phone. I guess I was just thinking it was like a dossier on the pledges, and I really got enough crank calls in the dorms without a bunch of fratties* coming after me.

*Note here that while I don't generally condone the term frat or fratty, I think by using it everybody knows exactly what type of fellow I am implying. Obviously an upstanding youth of moral character would not stalk me through a pledge facebook.

ROFLMBO - this should be quote of the day!

Exactly the image I was picturing!! We aren't even allowed to post our roster on the internet due to weirdos on the lookout! Only pictures - no names.