[33girl]

This just shows the fundamental conceit that is very real in the NPC. They deny their member groups, that they are rightly proud of, the chance to be on TV. So MTV finds a non-NPC sorority and films them - then NPC cries foul! "No! We're nothing like that! Our x, y, z is 180 degrees from that!" They wrongly believed that if MTV couldn't get an NPC sorority, which of course are the ONLY groups that MATTER (sarcasm), they wouldn't bother. If you don't stand up and speak up for yourself, then you can't be mad when someone else puts words in your mouth.

Like JAM said, we had an image prob before this - from risk management, but also from the snobbery that does exist in some chapters. I agree that the Sigmas made a bad decision, but everytime someone says something negative about them, we just pound another nail in our own coffin. It's done. We can't undo it. So let's stop raking these girls over the coals for things that aren't even related to the show.

As far as the slap, as s & s pointed out, this was behavior between PLEDGES and if you'll recall, everyone who wanted to pledge received a bid. They had no idea what kind of pledges they were going to get - they didn't change their selection method because they had decided they were going to give bids out like this long ago -- they didn't want to be choosing. Furthermore, this was last week's episode. It might be resolved on tomorrow night's ep, or it might have been resolved that night - but without seeing the 95% of their lives that ended up on the cutting room floor, we'll never know. It saddens me that so many people automatically assume the worst, that it was just blown off, instead of that it was resolved and edited out.