In one of the threads in Greek Life about this show, someone (I think the person attends UC Davis) posted that MTV didn't pick and chose the girls to live in the house. In fact, they couldn't get a total of six girls to do it at first (camera shy, I guess). That's why Jessica came in after move in day.
I don't have a problem with the rock thing at all. My problem comes in with the pledges. Some of them have the worst attitudes ever. They don't want to work for SAEpi at all. They are content to just party, drink, bitch and moan about the rules and then expect to wear letters at the end of the quarter.
A lot of this could have been avoided if during rush the sisters of SAEPi spent some time explaining that those given/accepting bids would have to abide by strict guidelines because they would be representing SAEPi even as pledges. Especially since there was some doubt as to the motives of a few of the rushees. I think that would have been a good way to weed some of them out as opposed to letting the process weed them out. They wouldn't have even needed to go into specifics. Just stating in general but uncertain terms that pledges of SAEPi are expected to avoid any behaviors that would reflect negatively on SAEPi would have sufficed. Then for those living in the pledge house, the morning/afternoon (any time before they had a chance to break rules) of move-in day, the sisters should have gone over all the rules/guidelines in full detail.
They had already been drinking in the house and had visitors before the rules had been established.
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