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Sororities are lame
Written by ***
Published on Monday, October 31, 2005

Okay, to be fair, I was extremely interested in joining a sorority when I first stepped foot on campus. There aren’t many girls on campus, why not get ‘in’ with the few that are? We have to stick together somehow right?

Well, this quickly changed when during rush I got a good look at the XYZ table. Three haughty, removed-looking girls glaring at me isn’t exactly my idea of a fun time, so I gave myself a good five feet of distance between the table they were sitting at and myself and went about my merry way. I completely forgot about the whole ordeal and my silly thoughts of actually spending money to be a part of an exaggerated wannabe high school cheer-leading squad.

Oh, but no, then comes the posters.

I live in [the freshman] hall like a few of the other freshmen girls and suddenly there are these huge, pink, cute butterflies on nearly everyone’s door. This didn’t annoy me so badly, they need to feel like they’re a part of something, right? I wasn’t even annoyed when they drew in chalk marker on the glass windows in front of the elevator.

But it didn’t stop there.

A week or two later, there were different posters. The butterflies weren’t even gone yet, and there were these pink posters with the girls names on them saying “one of the many wonderful girls in XYZ.” What was the point of that? A waste of paper, time, and ink.

But this wasn’t so bad. At least I saw a poster earlier for a Hurricane Katrina relief food drive. Unfortunately it was extremely under promoted in my opinion, and I don’t know the results of such an activity, but to do them justice, they did seem like they cared a little bit.

Enter ABC. I thought one of my neighbors was having a birthday due to the paper streamers hanging around their door. However, upon closer inspection, I see the gargantuan poster size sign welcoming her to ABC. What? Are they trying to out do XYZ? I shrugged this off, although at this point, I was getting pretty annoyed. I let them write on the windows by the elevator too. You know, I didn’t get annoyed with XYZ for doing that, so I let it slide.

Then girls started doing posters with their names on it writing about how ABC hearts XYZ and that’s just obnoxious. Coupled with ABC loves DEF(fraternity) on the door window that separate the girl’s side of the hall from the boy’s side of the hall and on multiple cars, it’s really no wonder I finally got sick enough of the childish bull to write this article.

Apparently it’s not easy to be in a sorority. They have to do community service and learn about the sorority’s history, but you could’ve surely fooled me. I wish they’d do something more worth while then cluttering the halls with silly posters and love declarations. I feel like I’m back in high school.

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Letter to the editor: Response to Sororities are lame
Contributed by Collaboration of "New Sorority Members"
Published on Monday, November 21, 2005

To be fair, I was going to start this off respectfully, but after reviewing your article again, ***, I’ve decided that respect is only warranted where it is first given. So, let me jump right in and get started.

First of all, whatever we put on our doors is our business, not yours. If it’s such an eye sore, don’t look. That’s why God gave us eyelids. Our decorations are in no way infringing on you. They are on our doors, plain and simple. We have every right to put them there. The posters and butterflies are our sororities’ ways of welcoming us into our sisterhoods, and our way of letting the world know how proud we are of our organizations. We are sorry that you have no concept of pride.

Second, there are many things that we could have said about your door, ***. I could have easily complained about your sign which says “We aren’t antisocial, we just don’t give a shit.” I mean, after all, if you want to get technical, your door has vulgar language on it, which could be considered offensive, not to mention the fact that it tells us what kind of person is behind the door. We could have complained about the mass of cobwebs and spiders you put on your door, but we didn’t. Why would we? It’s your door; you can do what you want with it. Wow, what a concept.

As to the ABC Loves XYZ signs, that’s one organization telling the other that it cares. It’s our attempt to extend the hand of friendship between two groups, and trying to get to know others better. But, I guess the person with the antisocial sign wouldn’t grasp that either.

What really is most disturbing to us about your article is the fact that, if you had a problem with us, why not come directly to us? We are literally a few steps away from you. Were you afraid to approach us, or was it simply that you realized that you didn’t actually have anything of substance to “complain” about? “My neighbors have cutesy door decorations, waahhh!”

So, why did we write this instead of coming to you? Because you didn’t show us that courtesy to begin with. So, ***, while we are our working hard on our philanthropy projects and growing closer to our sisters, we hope you enjoy sitting alone behind your closed door, listening to your emo music.

Oh, and as a side note, if you are going to be a “reporter” you need to get your facts straight, as all good reporters do. ABC has not marked on any DEF car windows. Since you are paying such close reporter-like attention, get your sororities straight. That was XYZ. We thought that being a reporter meant actually working to uncover the facts, but you could’ve surely fooled us. We wish you would do something more worthwhile than clutter the newspaper with silly antisocial articles. We feel like we are back in high school. ABC and XYZ love you ***!

For the record, i didnt write the response - I only wish i could take credit for it, because it's freakin HOT!