Sorority Guide-- by Howle and Stephens
 

Has anyone else seen this book? I picked it up in Birmingham over the weekend. It's pretty good--gives a PNM a very good idea of what to expect and doesn't, y'know, blow too much sunshine.

It addresses tricky issues like legacies and how to deal with cuts. It encourages women to maximize their options.:) Recs, what to wear at various kinds of campuses, rushing a second time are also covered.

I think it would be especially good for the PNM who's clueless about the whole process. The do's and don'ts are great.

The only goofs I can see: in the back, the book says that Coke's colors are red and white because a founder's wife was an "Alpha Omega Pi"; also, that there's an arrow on Wrigley's Gum because the founder's wife was a Pi Phi (wasn't that disproved?)

Did you pick this up at a local book store or more the Barnes & Noble type? It's listed on Amazon as unavailable, but I'm curious about it.

I got it in a store in Mountain Brook--Smith's Variety Store. I'm still exploring the book and just found a website for it... www.sororityguide.com . Maybe it can be ordered there?

I think "Everything you need to know from Alpha to Omega" would be more appropriate than "Alpha to Zeta".. b/c Zeta isn't even halfway down the greek alphabet :o:p

This is what happens when we don't force our pledges to recite the Greek alphabet while holding upside down matches.

On their website they have part of a quiz that is supposedly in the book:

Since you have the book, could you tell us what the types of music in a person's ipod have to do with "Is Sisterhood Your Thing?" quiz?

Had to get the book back from my daughter. OK, there's a personality test on there and based on your answers, there's a rush strategy for you.

While I'm sure the book has a wealth of info for PNMs and parents, I guess I just don't see why anyone would want to pay $$$ for tips and advice they can get for free online. :confused:

It's obvious! Because they never heard of this fabulous place called GreekChat!:D

Well their website is not that great at all...hasn't been updated in a while I guess. Do you know if the authors were even Greek? They must not be well-versed and updated either on terminology for recruitment either! They are still calling it rush! I am pretty sure most schools are calling it recruitment now!

^^^

Uh, wrong thread, Sherlock.

The site owner of helpmerush.com is an Alpha Gam alumna. Her daughter, as previously stated, is a Phi Mu from Valdosta State.

For obvious reasons, posting real names and email addresses isn't the brightest idea, either.

Brightest idea..............
 

Uh...gee...thanks...Watson! :cool:

I MEANT to post it here - imho it was applicable.

And the helpmerush.com thread (specific to helpmerush.com discussion and NOT Sorority Guide book talk) wasn't good enough? Mmkay.

Sorry OTW - you WIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am not as familiar as you are with all the GC threads.
Thank you for so kindly pointing out my oversight.:cool:

Always glad to help, C! ;) :p

i love smith's! what a fabulous store.

i would love to see the book-maybe they'll still have it when i'm there in about a month.

Let me look here... it was published in 2006. Somewhere I read that the authors went Greek in South Carolina. Looks like they almost always call it 'recruitment' in the book. I see a couple of uses of 'rush', of course that could be because around here, that's what people still use. When I hear alums asking PNMs about it or when PNMs are discussing, they tend to still say rush and I figure it's because it's easier to ask, "Are you going to rush?" that, "Are you going to go through recruitment?"

Oh FSUZeta, I've become a Smith's fan too! It's right by the zoo entrance and I spent some time this weekend as well as at the one in Homewood.

Wow...they didn't care about printing unsubstantiated rumors did they? Love the Omega, but the story isn't even right. We have no idea whether or not there is really a connection between Coke choosing red for its color and AOII. The only thing we can prove is that the daughter of the first bottler of Coke was a loyal AOII. My chapter benefitted from Emy Lou Beidenharn's generosity for many years and continues to after her death since she remembered us in her will!

I haven't seen the book, but I know I've seen similar errors (not the omega for omicron, though) in colleges' official recruitment materials, so it doesn't really seem that bad.

I'm pretty sure the UGA Pointer listed Carly Simon as a famous AGD back in the day.

You know that thread we have about famous Greeks that never were? It lists lots of mistakes made online and in recruitment guides. Anyway, I've seen sooo many of these made on Panhellenic and individual sorority websites. The most common one on Pi Phi websites is that Sally Field and Susan Lucci are Pi Phis.

For years, the rumors about the Wrigley arrow and Parker Pen arrows being due to Pi Phi wives of company founders were accepted as true by members. I don't even remember anyone trying to debunk them. Anyway, our national magazine debunked those and many other Pi Phi rumors a couple of years ago.

After reading this guide, I'm guessing that one author is an ADPi and the other a Kappa.

I can actually still do this:) Comes in real handy whilst doing crossword puzzles under pressure.

Yes, I had to memorize these as well! Bummer that it turns out to be false!!

Has anyone seen this website for an "instructional" dvd?
http://sororityrushsecrets.com/about.html

$24.90 and they don't even tell you what the viewer can expect to be covered in the DVD?

.....Kelly :)

The DVD will probably have stuff that PNMs and parents can easily find on GC...for free. :rolleyes:

Not only that, but they can find information on GC which is specific to their campus as well.

.....Kelly :)

I don't know why but I'm strangely interested in seeing how dumb that dvd is.

$24.90 worth of strangely interested?

I rest easy knowing that the DVD is a "helpful, humorous" guide to recruitment and not a dirty expose of sororities. :rolleyes:

I'm thinking about contacting the producers and seeing if they can help me put together a how-to DVD for all of these new posters who want to start their own sororities. I would include helpful tips such as:

--be sure to send your pin to the Smithsonian so that it can be put in the "Voted Most Beautiful Pin" collection.
--send a copy of your ritual to the Library of Congress. :D
--Don't forget to send your pin to NASA so it can be sent to the moon on the next space mission.
--be sure to register your new sorority with the National Fraternity and Sorority Agency (for all of those posters who wonder who they need to contact about their new org to make it "official". Uh, student activities?)

Maybe not but I'll accept any double dog dares in exchange for a review. ;)

Funny! If you actually made a serious dvd for it though, it would probably sell like hotcakes. There seems to be one every minute.

I saw a copy of the book in my local used bookstore not that long ago. I wonder if it is still there.

Don't forget that they should make sure that there aren't any of those pesky brothel laws getting in the way of them having a house. Those laws are all over!

NASA just landed another craft on Mars. On the news channels and programs they've been showing pictures of bits of the surface. So far I haven't seen or heard anything about the badge(s) that went on this mission. If anyone does, please let us know here on GC. That way we can get some postings of bitter complaints that the pin(s) is(are) on another planet instead of being properly returned to HQ.