[aephi alum]

I missed it on Wed., but just caught the rerun this afternoon.

I was a little thrown when they skipped the entire rush process and just said "50 women showed up, 16 got bids". But I have to respect Zeta Sigma Phi for not letting MTV film their membership selection process. It is supposed to be secret, both the process itself and the reasons that specific people were or were not offered bids... and as a PNM I'd hate to watch the show several months after rush and listen to the members discussing me - whether or not I'd gotten in.

Sharifa did show disrespect by turning up so late. I can understand being 5 minutes late, but a half hour? Without a good reason? Yes, she's moving to a new house, but so are the other "house pledges" and they all managed to be on time. Plus, if she were to forget something, what's to keep her from running back later on to grab it?

Carmen asking the sisters to pipe down - definitely not disrespectful. If anything, the sisters were disrespectful to her by gabbing away just outside her room at 2:30am. (Y'know, sleep deprivation is considered hazing........)

I'm a little confused about the points, though. The pledges have to get to 2003 points each, but the things they can do earn them very few points (signature=1, answer a question=5, spend time with an active=15, spend time with their pledge sisters=??). We also saw in one of the ads, that the pledge class gets docked 100 points each for some slight that we don't know about yet. I hope there are other ways they can earn points, or they'll never cross!