[33girl]

opie...

I think you are taking some of the things that were said and getting them slightly twisted.

I don't think anyone on here has said they think the MTV shows are a good idea, nor that they would participate in them. I know if my chapter even had thought of such a thing I would have said NO WAY IN HELL!! This isn't because I don't trust my sisters, but because I don't trust MTV. Joe Patane (from Real World Miami) wrote a book on his experience, and it is very eye opening on their methods and such.

But the point is...the shows are here. They're not going to go away. So instead of sticking our heads in the sand, as NPC is wont to do on issues, why not try to put a positive spin on it - take it and make it yours, as Little E said.

As far as Jordan and Candace, in the reunion special they showed a clip where they came out and asked them if they were pledging because of the show. If you believe Jordan was interested AT ALL in SAEPi as anything other than a vehicle to get her face on camera, I've got a bridge I'd like to sell you. I would take the same attitude as the Sigma sisters did if anyone wanted to pledge my sorority for anything other than sisterhood purposes. I think it was their attitude more than their looks that made the sisters wary of them. (There are a few Sigmas who didn't appear on camera who are WAY more attractive than Candace or Jordan.)

As far as the group's names, look on Laura's local sororities site...there are very, very few groups that you CAN'T somehow twist them to sound like something else.

I think to intimate that anyone who gets interested in Greek life because of these shows will be a bad member is just plain narrow-minded and wrong...that's like saying you can't be a good scientist if the thing that sparked your interest was The Six Million Dollar Man. Our groups will deteriorate just as quickly if people think they have to be perfect to be members. Very few people want to enter into an organization feeling they will be constantly judged.