Miss Maryland - Rush Chair Agonizes, Draws Derision - from ABCnews
 

Any thoughts? They have January recruitment, so the chapter has time to find someone else?
http://abcnews.go.com/US/miss-maryla...3#.UAlx57SJfyB

This seems like a big to-do about nothing. I would think that withdrawing from school and her campus responsibilities would be par for the course. It's Miss America...not Miss Hawaiian Tropic. I would think that her sisters would be very proud of her. Those bloggers need to get a life...that's just mean-spirited.

This was the subject of a post on Jezebel the other day, and most of the comments were actually very critical of the person who posted mocking it. It seems to me that regardless of your opinion of pageants or sororities, people should be disturbed about private communication's being broadcast to the whole world to be dissected. Her sister who let this e-mail out should be ashamed.

I think Ms. Wheatley had it right "That letter was never meant to be public. It was a private letter between her and her sisters. Someone misbehaved in releasing it."

Maryland is a large Greek School, and I would assume they will elect a new VP-M once school resumes in August/September. I can't imagine it would be a problem.

Kuddos to her, and unfortunatly the commentators like J.K. Trotter and Common People seem to not understand that sorority recruitment (if done correctly) is a year long process. In addition, in January she will be at Miss America - not at the chapter house. She would not be able to do the job.

She goes to Cornell...it sounds like that's where some of the derision comes from. Apparently, Ivy Leaguers should not be in pageants. :rolleyes:

She's actually at Cornell, which has deferred recruitment so they'll still be able to appoint or elect a recruitment chair to be trained in time for January. They may have already expected this and could have someone waiting in the wings.

As someone who had to step down from a position in order to do something that in the long run was probably better for my career, I feel her pain. Jezebel (the writers, not the commenters as much) seems to have a big beef against sororities and pageants--so this was a perfect storm of snark.

/rant
I am always amazed at how many people like to ride in and park their high horses in comment sections. Several people were blasting this girl for saying this was one of the hardest decisions she has had to make, and going all "well in 20 years you will realize how dumb that statement is... blah blah" She's 20 years old, a beauty queen, and an ivy league student for goodness sake. Maybe she is one of the extremely lucky ones who didn't have a completely crappy/horrific childhood that exposed them to the tough realities of life early.
/end rant

What I found sad and shocking is that obviously one of her "sisters" released this letter to the public. I can"t imagine that it would be hard to replace her for Rush chair since it is a spring recruitment.

This made an appearance on Barstool yesterday as well...I personally didn't see what the big deal was. People resign from their positions all the time, letter or no letter. More disappointing someone leaked it

That struck me as well. It also bothers me when people who have only seen GLO's from the outside looking in make derogatory statements based on uninformed and misleading stereotypes.

THIS quote in particular from the article was ridiculous...

"The only thing more trivial and banal than than [sic] being in a sorority is being in a f--king beauty pageant," Common People wrote."One would think that a woman bright enough to get into Cornell would at the very least possess some modicum of self-awareness. Apparently not."

Really??

Good for her. I'm glad that a woman at Cornell can get some recognition for being smart and beautiful. We sadly don't see enough praise for the latter.


And LOL at ABCNews using Ivygate/J.K. Trotter as a serious source of commentary. That guy is extremely laughable and not very credible either.

It's kind of like when the woman who wrote Pledged used The Southern Belle Primer as a source.

Brava to Ms. Guy for being selfless AND self-aware enough to know you can't do it all - no matter how great it might look on your resume. She had the best interests of her sisters and the pageant (from which she is getting beaucoup bucks) at heart. Anyone who would deride that is just a great big asshole. I guess if we replaced "sorority" and "pageant" with "student senator" and "Habitat for Humanity president" everyone would be sympathizing with her and her difficult decision.