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Originally posted by valkyrie
Seriously, if you buy this book you are directly encouraging this woman to continue writing crap and passing it off as journalism. Why give her money? It's only going to make her rich and encourage her to write more stupid books like this. If you really want to read it, check it out from the library or wait until people are selling their used copies for $1.00 on half.com.
The more I think about it, the more she doesn't know what in the hell she's talking about -- on the Today Show, she mentioned that people rush at smaller schools and then tranfer to schools with huge greek systems so their sorority will "have to take them." That's not even true.
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Dang, valkyrie -- will you stop writing stuff that I agree with?? I mean it was one thing with the Adam guy over in CC Entertainment, but now this!!!
There must be some snowballs in hell!
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But if you had a daughter, would you let her join a sorority?
Not until sororities make some broad changes. I think sororities have the poten_tial to be so much more than they are, but the national offices are so concerned with things like money and image that they’ve lost touch with the girls as individuals. I think if they wiped out the idea of pledging, didn’t force girls to live in a house together and really overhauled the rush process then I’d be much more likely to happily let a girl in. Some parents take sororities so serious_ly that they hire rush consultants, which are kind of like pageant consultants to guide their girls through rush.
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This is truly sick -- first of all, nothing like being a dictator to your GROWN ADULT CHILD -- I mean 18 years of age is legal, right? If she wants to join a sorority, then she can do so without mommy dearest giving her permission.
Second - she supposedly interviewed at this mysterious school - so how the HELL does she "know" what national offices are concerned with? If she knew anything from this "fine" investigative "work" then she would know that all of our nationals are first and foremost a corporation, and that they are only as successful as their members. You treat your members right, and your company succeeds.
Third - again, she did no investigation or she would have been looking at all the changes to recruitment (again!) that NPC has brought to the table.
Fourth - who is she to bash consultants? I can guarantee that she has a manager who helped her get going. How is that any different? Yes, some women do seek the help of a consultant because they do want to join a sorority -- but heck, that would be like criticizing someone who pays a resume service to make their resume better.
This just pisses me off -- oops, I used a "bad" word -- guess my 10 years of being an Alpha Chi have served to give me trash mouth
Sounds to me like *someone* didn't get a bid the first go round... no names of course because that would really compromise my underhanded sneaky lying "source"