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It's not illegal for her to use the organization's names personally (that'd be like us saying "I'm a You-Know-Who" instead of saying "I'm an Alpha Gamma Delta!") but the radio station can not be using names, so if it's on the radio station website, she can't use names.
It's like on TV where you see "Trading Spaces, Fraternity/Sorority" and the letters are blurred out and they don't mention the groups names. Or on MTV when they go into dorm rooms and blur out paddles, composites, etc. Those are trademarked group names that the groups do not allow to be in the media, so I would think radio was included and internet promotions for that station would be as well.
We have a girl like this on our campus, who is blogging the entire process. She didn't get a bid during formal last year, but she's been wanting my chapter since she got here, so she's doing informal this fall. After reading her blog though (it covers everything from boyfriends to parties to classes to sororities) even I'm iffy on her, and I was a hardcore supporter last year.
I think I might tell her to stop getting so excited, because my chapter responds very negatively to "OMG I WANNA BE YOU I WOULD TOTALLY DIE FOR YOU!!!!!!1!!!!!ONE!!!!!!!!!!11" We don't want hero worship or for people to be *just* like someone else in the chapter, we want friendship.
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