Law and Order

kdgirlie · #1 01-21-2001, 02:40 PM

Does anyone watch Law and Order SVU, me and my mom are big fans-- but I missed it friday due to rush activities and forgot to tape it. My mom call and said that the Episode reflected very badly on Greek life. And she thought the used my organizations name ( in a negative way.) Any thoughts?

shopgirl · #2 01-21-2001, 09:43 PM

Hi Kdgirlie...

I didn't watch the show, but I did see a preview. I don't think they used your org. or any other org for that matter. I don't think they are allowed to do that.(?) It looked as though her shirt had the greek letters Lambda Kappa, so to someone who might not know the greek alphabet that well, it could have seemed like a Delta Kappa, but not Kappa Delta.

Hope this sheds some light on the subject.
Hasta Pasta.

HeidiHo · #3 01-22-2001, 12:19 AM

I saw it & it was about a girl being given the date rape drug by her soror sisters. I don't if it's coincidence, but it mirrored a certain case we've all heard about. Of course they made it much more dramatic & took a few poetic justices, but it pisses me off to see "the incident" getting any attention in the media. Especially from a show I love.
Heidi

sammie17 · #4 01-22-2001, 06:12 PM

Hi! I sawit, and i thought it totally beated up the Greek system. It made us Greeks look like a bunch of b****es and bastards. Unfortunately, they used a lot of stereotypes in the show.

Also, in the beginning, I saw her sweatshirt, and the camera angle made it look like it said a certain REAL sorority (forgot which one i thought it was) name, but later on, i saw it again, and realized it was not a real sorority that they had on their sweatshirt.

also i think it is illegal for TV shows/movies to use existing sorority/fraternity letters on the show. (Hence, in Scream 2, Cici is in Omega Beta Zeta...) I personaly found the episode degrading for the Greek system!!

[This message has been edited by sammie17 (edited January 22, 2001).]

kdgirlie · #5 01-22-2001, 06:18 PM

i am glad so many people responded. I hate seeing TV only represent the negative sterotypes of the greek system

33girl · #6 01-22-2001, 07:57 PM

I had seen a promo for this on the previous week's episode, but then I looked in the TV Guide and it said it was going to be something different, so I forgot about it.

So what happened in the episode? Was the "most likely suspect" guilty? (they usually never are on that show)

If you saw it and it pissed you off, write to NBC. The media is going to keep doing this to Greeks till we put our foot down.

SoCalGirl · #7 01-23-2001, 12:12 AM

I saw it and was so ticked! The sorority was called Delta Kappa Delta and the fraternity was refered to as Beta.

Here's the quick summary...

Sorority member goes out partying w/ 2 sisters and ends the night at a fraternity house. The 2 sisters leave her there because she's giving one of the guys a lap dance. The next day the girl wakes up in the bushes across campus. At the hospital she finds out she was raped. (She was a virgin.)

During the investigation the cops look at a couple different members of the fraternity and discover that the girl was drugged w/ GHB. Later they find out that the guy (#1) she was giving a lap dance to, is the ex of one of the other girls. The victim had flirted w/ the guy at a party before she knew that he had dated the other sister. Guy #1 has been accused before of rape and has a rep for getting girls drunk then taking them home.

The detectives eventually figure out that the victim had sex w/ 2 different guys that night. Then they discover that it was the 2 sisters that made the GHB and drugged her.
They do this as payback for flirting w/ the guy.

The 2 guys had sex w/ her thinking that she was drunk but clueless to the fact that she was drugged. (Guy #2 didn't know that guy #1 had also slept w/ her that night.)

So both guys and both sisters get charged w/ rape. The guys get off because they didn't know she was drugged and the girls get off because one of them is the daughter of a judge.

The school has their own discipline board and expell all four. The victim is distraught at the end because not only did they all get off; but she hadn't told her parents, and never took the pills the doctor gave her. So she could be pregnant. That's on top of the gonarhea (sp) that guy #1 gave her!!!!

sigmagrrl · #8 01-23-2001, 12:20 AM

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Originally posted by sammie17:

also i think it is illegal for TV shows/movies to use existing sorority/fraternity letters on the show.

I don't know if anyone saw this, but there was an episode of "Sex and The City" and the character Charlotte meets with her Kappa Kappa Gamma sisters. They mentioned it in an episode that should be airing again before June. Before it airs, I will try to post a reminder!

AlphaChiGirl · #9 01-23-2001, 01:14 AM

It's not illegal for TV shows and movies to use the names of sororities and fraternities in their works...provided that they have discussed it with them (since the vast majority of Greek organizations have trademarks on the name). I remember in that Julia Roberts movie, "Something to Talk About", it is mentioned that she met her husband at the "Chi-O Sadie Hawkins Dance" (We have closed-captioning, and it read "Chi-O"). Don't forget the SNL skit with reference to Tri-Delt...

Aren't the circumstances of this Law and Order just a little too familiar? :::groan:::

sammie17 · #10 01-23-2001, 08:57 PM

Thanks for correcting me!!! Sorry i gave false info! SoCalGirl, you gave an excellent recap...i coudln't have remebered all that!!

I didn't see that Sex and the City ep myself, AlphaChiGirl, but i heard that the Kappa's were referred to as "rigid, rich snots."<-- somewhere on this board. why would the kappa kappa gamma's allow this episode to portray them in that way? of course the kappas might not have known that they would be portrayed that way...but after the ep came out i didn't hear anything from the kappas...please correct me if i'm wrong!!!

CutiePie2000 · #11 01-26-2001, 05:13 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by shopgirl:
it could have seemed like a Delta Kappa, but not Kappa Delta.

Hi,
I watched the episode.
The sorority was Delta Kappa Delta
The fraternity was Beta Lambda
Hope that cleared everything up!

Q-T Pie · #12 01-27-2001, 03:54 PM

MY Goodness! I absolutely love Law & Order (one of my majors is Criminal Justice

) and I sometimes catch an episode of Special Victims Unit, but I can't believe that they'd portray Greek Life in such a negative way. I think the media should go the extra step & actually talk to Greek orgs. to get the positive picture of Greek Life instead of going for the easy ratings.