[Kdbruin]

I am late to the party reading this book. In fact, I did not even know it existed until a couple of days ago. Because I had gone through rush at UCLA in the 90s I was curious as to what the author had to say on the subject. I purchased it on my kindle and was a little upset for spending $9.99 on this book.
For a woman who had a graduate degree and as she claims, is cultured, I was surprised at how biased and shallow the chapter on sorority rush was! The part about the rush process was spot on, I just could not believe how shallow and sometimes mean in her explanation for prefing Delta Delta Delta and Kappa Delta was. I am of course biased towards KD but the way she described my chapter was that my sisters were a bunch of socially awkward, insincere freaks and as such, NO one would intentionally want to join KD!! Was KD a lower tier house during that time? Yes. But there were amazing and beautiful women both inside and out. I am proud of my chapter for really stepping up their game over the last 20 years to earn the respect they deserve. I also think it is in a way ironic that she decided to accept at bid form tri-delt (because they are on the other end of the spectrum from KD) and yet, tri-delt has closed at UCLA. This is no disrespect to tri-delta either. I am curious as to why they went from an upper middle tier sorority in the 90s to having a problem recruiting new members and eventually closing (if anyone has any info- I would love to know). I hope tri-delt comes back to UCLA!

It also reminded me of the PNMs coming on GC with questions about being in a house that may not be a 'top tier.' My opinion
in college was the great thing about not being in a 'top tier' house was I did not have the pleasure to always be perfect. It was about the sisterhood and having fun than it was about competing for frats attention. It was rare that I ever felt the pressure to fit in. I was with the ladies that from day one during rush I bonded with and their were no awkward conversations. I guess I feel like this book is just 'feeding the machine' of creating unnecessary stereotypes and drama around the greek system.

Thank you for letting me rant!