For those of you who THINK that in the fantasy-land you're living in that no one outside of greekdom would "notice" what MTV has created, here's a little article I found on charlotteobserver.com under Mark Washburn's column:
Posted on Sat, Jun. 15, 2002
TV/RADIO
MTV gets so real with `Sorority Life'
MARK WASHBURN
Sight unseen and from its title alone, I'm ready to pick the best reality series of this reality-rich summer.
"Sorority Life" will take us behind the scenes of a sorority rush as pledges try to join Sigma Alpha Epsilon Pi at the University of California at Davis.
Sorority rush. Oh the rituals, oh the cattiness, oh the cruelty, oh the calories.
This MTV travelogue of college nobility, still in the editing stages and not ready for preview, is scheduled to launch June 24 in a 10:30 p.m. time slot. MTV says it will probably run an hour each week.
Oh the plucking, oh the primping, oh the sheer she-just-doesn't-measure-up-ness. Oh, oh, oh. It just can't miss.
MTV is one of the pioneers of the reality genre that has swept the network landscape. "The Real World" debuted in 1992 with seven young adults plopped into a Manhattan loft and left to stew for months as the cameras drank it in.
CBS's "Survivor" is the conquering king of this drop-'em-in-a-fishbowl-and-watch approach, called "reality programming" even though it's as unreal as any life experience can be.
Did you notice what "GREAT" press greeks are already getting from this?! The "cattiness, cruelty, and calories" -- all I can say is "WAY TO GO GIRLS!"
Yeah - your 5 minutes of fame has cost us all a little more dignity -- which NONE of us can afford at this time.
Maybe you should contact every other publication that carries his commentary and let them know that "YOU REALLY DIDN'T SAY THOSE THINGS" -- I'm sure they'd fall all over themselves to print retractions...
As if I needed to say it -- DeltAlum, as usual you have called it from the start!