[ZetaGirl22]

SO I bought this book in the hopes that she would portray an accurate picutre of greek life-I have been sadly mistaken. I have several problems with the book:

1) She did not use real names-how are we to know that the stories of these 4 girls are really true to begin with, and more importantly, how do we know that she did not twist their words and use them against these women. I doubt she was completely forthcoming when she approached these women-none of them seem overtly angry with their chapter-angry enough to make them want to do something so potentially harmful

2) Only one college and two sororities were observed. While there are some similarities to my alma mater, Robbins' State U chapters are NOTHING like my own and I am guessing nothing like your own. I know that my organization alone has close to 200 active chapters across the country, and there are 26 NPC orgs, and even more NIC orgs-we are talking about hundreds of thousands of people here. How can you make such an overaching arguement when your sample size is SO abysmally low? No credible journalist would print this.

3) I love how Robbins even manages to make greek philanthropy events look bad. She criticises us for having large charity events (i know a big one at my school was KD's Wiffleball tournament)
instead of investing in the community in other ways. Robbins does not understand the time, effort, and resources it takes to plan and successfully execute such events. I wonder when the last time was when Robbins last even though about contributing to a charity, much less the rest of the population at large. Yes, I personally donate money to RAINN from every paycheck. Does that make me a bad person because I contribute money and not time? Time is not something many of us have a lot of, and I contribute in the only way I can.

Sadly, I do not think the greek system will ever be portrayed in a positive light in the media. It is up to us then, to continue to further and promote our organizations and to show people how rewarding greek life can be from the inside.

Shame on you, Miss Robbins, shame indeed