Interesting New Reality show called Sorority Girls

[ree-Xi]

Originally Posted by Tulip86

Just Google "Watch Sorority Girls online"


Found episode 3 here:
http://www.novamov.com/video/onvt3uyg3wnou

Looking for episode 4, if anyone is so inclined to help. Every site I find asks me to "fill out an offer form".

PS, I'm looking for an online version of "The Virgin Diaries" episode that aired on TLC last night. I've search high and low. It doesn't re-air until Dec 14, but I'm under the weather and looking for a distraction. I don't know why it didn't record, but I think it had to do with hubby's too-many Sunday night picks.

[Tulip86]

Originally Posted by ree-Xi

Looking for episode 4, if anyone is so inclined to help. Every site I find asks me to "fill out an offer form".

Episode 4
http://www.novamov.com/video/cbw9mt1xdwbj9

[ree-Xi]

Originally Posted by Tulip86

Episode 4
http://www.novamov.com/video/cbw9mt1xdwbj9

Thank you!

[ColdInCanada11]

I was watching the fourth episode last week with my non-Greek friend; after the fraternity said, "How hard do you want us to haze them?", I then got to explain for 20 minutes that I was not in fact hazed by fraternity guys. This show is every risk management violation rolled into one

[DeltaBetaBaby]

Watching this show, all I can think is how much I despise the American girls, and how much I want to hang with the pledges.

[jazing]

I remember reading that both the AEPi and ZBT at Leeds wanted to get on the show. Has anyone heard/seen more episodes than what is posted to say if this happened?

[DeltaBetaBaby]

Originally Posted by jazing

I remember reading that both the AEPi and ZBT at Leeds wanted to get on the show. Has anyone heard/seen more episodes than what is posted to say if this happened?

Only four have aired so far. They did bring in some frat from FSU, but I don't know which one it was.

[jazing]

Originally Posted by DeltaBetaBaby

Only four have aired so far. They did bring in some frat from FSU, but I don't know which one it was.

Would that happen to be episode 4? I know quite a few Greeks up there, not just my group.

[DeltaBetaBaby]

Originally Posted by jazing

Would that happen to be episode 4? I know quite a few Greeks up there, not just my group.

Yeah, there were eleven guys, and obviously they portrayed it as though they were all from the same (unnamed) fraternity, but who knows if that was really the case?

I'm so embarrassed to admit I am following this show, but sometimes the British girls and the announcer are so damn funny. The culture clash makes it great.

[KKGCaroline]

Originally Posted by DeltaBetaBaby

I'm so embarrassed to admit I am following this show, but sometimes the British girls and the announcer are so damn funny. The culture clash makes it great.

OK I confess, I've been watching it too, some of the British girls are hilarious, I have a definite Rush Crush, and I'll be surprised if she doesn't make it to the final!

[Tulip86]

Episode 5 is online:

http://www.novamov.com/video/9842b5bf0d219

[ColdInCanada11]

Maybe it's because I was really tired when I was watching the episode last night, or it might just be a regional thing, but what exactly is the point of favours? I think that doing something useful for someone is a fantastic way to give back to the community, but giving people hand massages? I suppose the argument can be made that you are relaxing people, but I feel there are better ways to give back

[aephi alum]

I'm surprised that none of the pledges has said "Eff this, I'm outta here." The winning team in each pledge challenge gets a perk like a night out on the town or a spa day, and is also immune from elimination from the pledge class, while the losing team has to clean the house or set up for a party, and each member gets grilled on why she should be allowed to stay in the sorority. And it's just harsh, the way they use a lipstick to cross each eliminated pledge's photo off the composite.

This is not how the NPC new member process works. For one thing, once you've received and accepted a bid, you will be initiated unless you choose to depledge - the chapter can't kick you out. For another, many of the activities the pledges are being made to do are outright hazing.

I hope that the five women who are selected to become full sisters don't take away the wrong message. There's not necessarily anything wrong with a chapter eliminating a new member or three - rush happens pretty quickly, and it's tough to make good informed decisions when you and your sisters have met each PNM for a total of maybe 3 hours - you could end up pledging someone who turns out to be the campus slut, a complete psycho, or just simply a really bad fit for the chapter. But "you must choose 14 women to pledge, and then cut nine of them, one each week, until you end up with only five women who will be initiated" is pretty extreme. If you're cutting 64% of your pledge class for being "weighed and measured and found lacking" you made some piss-poor decisions during rush! I hope that, when the Americans go home and the Chosen Five are in charge, the Chosen Five understand that they don't have to make such harsh cuts during pledging.

Then again, this is reality TV. The powers that be obviously thought they'd get a much more entertaining show if they turned rush and pledging into some warped version of "Survivor".

[WaterChild]

Originally Posted by aephi alum

This is not how the NPC new member process works. For one thing, once you've received and accepted a bid, you will be initiated unless you choose to depledge - the chapter can't kick you out.

That's not true in every NPC group. I can't speak for all of them, but for my group at least there is no guarantee that a woman who accepts a bid will be initiated. A new member can be kicked out just like a member can for standards issues or failure to pay, etc. Of course, it's nothing like it is on this show either.

[aephi alum]

Originally Posted by WaterChild

That's not true in every NPC group. I can't speak for all of them, but for my group at least there is no guarantee that a woman who accepts a bid will be initiated. A new member can be kicked out just like a member can for standards issues or failure to pay, etc. Of course, it's nothing like it is on this show either.

Yeah, I exaggerated the point a bit there. It is very difficult, but not impossible, for an NPC chapter to get rid of a new member. This sorority, OTOH, is kicking out a pledge a week. Nearly 2/3 of them are getting the boot.

Which brings up another question: dues. Have the American sisters or the British pledges been asked to pay anything? Or is it all on the TV station's dime for the duration of the season? What happens when the Americans go home and the British Chosen Five have a sorority to run, a house to maintain, a new rush to plan, a new pledging process to conduct, etc.?