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Originally posted by UCD Greek
I've been reading all these posts for a long while now and have kept my mouth shut. But I cannot be silent anymore. I'm a greek at UC Davis (not a Sigma). I know some of these girls pretty well and respect and admire them as people and a s greeks. I may not fully agree with the decision they made, though i do think they did it with good intentions and were assured of things and made promsies that were broken. However, i think all of you are blowing this WAY out of proportion and being unfairly cruel. Let me just suggest something, have any of you thought that maybe the Sigmas are seeing some of this behavior for the 1st time on TV? As we all know things go on among pledges that sisters dont see all the time, I know they did in my pledge class. The sisters didn't do anything about Sylvia slapping Jessica or Candace breaking Sober Sis because they didn't know it happened! Just cause the cameras saw doesn't mean the sisters did.
But my main point is this: Reading some of these posts has made me be embarassed to call myself Greek. We talk all the time about fostering a sense of sisterhood and brotherhood between chapters, we make a point of trying to create a supportive, positive greek community, yet we treat these girls like crap! Maybe they are a local, but they are still panhellenic members (be it associate members) and are still deserving of our support or at very least they deserve to be treated with respect. To constructivly criticise is one thing but to shamlessly, meanly ridicule is quite another. If we as a Greek Community want to continue to claim to foster unity and create an atomosphere of respect then we must practice what we preach. We may not agree with what the sigmas did but they are part of our community and deserve respect and consideration for their feelings. By reading this web site I cannot help to feel that some of you (not all) are doing exactly what you are shunning the Sigmas for doing, you are perpetuating the negative stereotypes about sorority girls, in your case by being catty, mean spirited and condasending.
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Get ready for more PMS:
I believe you when you say that alot of the sisters are seeing this for the first time-and what a shock it must be. I would die if it were me, and I was finding all this stuff out for the first time.
Secondly-I don't think we're blowing this out of proportion. We have a right to be angry, since we'll all have to deal with the backlash during rush-I know we're all eagerly awaiting the "When do I get to live in the IKEA pledge house??" question. You may be right-the Sigma's may have had the best inetentions when agreeing to do this-but have they ever seen a "reality" show? Temptation Island? Real World?? Any of this ring a bell?? But of course, MTV would never edit for drama...
And how does the saying go...oh yes-the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Finally-you and Zima are telling us that we're being catty, mean-spirited..but what just happened on the last episode of SL?? Oh yea, a pnm slapped another pnm. And what about the episode before that?? Oh, right...the pnm's got drunk, one ran into a glass door, and no one can understand the concept that they represent Sigma/ Greeks in general/ UCD. And the episode before that one?? Gosh that's right....the girls were talking about Jessica behind her back, and excluding her from their activities.....
Do I really need to go on about who's promoting "sorority girl" stereotypes??