University of Mississippi - Ole Miss 2014 Panhellenic Sorority Recruitment

[htoddy]

I really thought I was on that retched Greekrank for a minute when I saw the "rumor mill" had started. Can't speak to why it said initiates, but the order is alphabetically by state and alpha. within that state. It only took a minute of facebook creeping to find out the order. As the first five were from AL, next four from AR and so on. So please squash the bid list order rumor that the other sororities and alumni are spreading, trying hard to make KKG look bad or as someone said "drunk" when they posted it.

[Hartofsec]

Originally Posted by DeltaBetaBaby

Maybe it's the order of the bid list!

Originally Posted by DeltaBetaBaby

Either you are making shit up or you are sharing information that you shouldn't be. Stop.

The former, apparently. Good advice, DeltaBetaBaby.

[amIblue?]

Originally Posted by htoddy

I really thought I was on that retched Greekrank for a minute when I saw the "rumor mill" had started. Can't speak to why it said initiates, but the order is alphabetically by state and alpha. within that state. It only took a minute of facebook creeping to find out the order. As the first five were from AL, next four from AR and so on. So please squash the bid list order rumor that the other sororities and alumni are spreading, trying hard to make KKG look bad or as someone said "drunk" when they posted it.

What a shame that you are unable to discern a joke from a dedicated Kappa alumna volunteer (me) as well as long time GC regular Panhellenic sisters who have no desire to make any sorority look bad (DBB and others). The PR chair screwed up with Initiates, period. She also made an error in ordering the NM's the way she did. If it was alpha by geography, then include the geography. I'm sure the new members themselves were taken aback. From here on out, everything official they do will be ordered alphabetically by pledge class.

Why is it that you're spending time FB creeping anyone? Nice way to invade the privacy of strangers.

Lesson to be learned is that when you're preparing something for publication, don't leave anything open for speculation. I bet the chapter has had conversations about it, and it won't be handled the same way next year.

[AZTheta]

Holy cow: I didn't realize that a college newspaper ad would have people getting their knickers all bunched up. Who has that kind of time? I thought amIblue's initial post about Kappa's bid list was pretty transparent and saw the humor in it and all ensuing posts. Apparently I missed that this is serious business.

Although, truthfully, I am somewhat irritated that Kappa has now become first to automatically initiate their snowflakes. Damn. They are always one-upping everyone. #annoyed

[chi-o_cat]

I think it was clear to anyone reading this that the "bid list order" comment was simply a joke.

[Hartofsec]

Originally Posted by AZTheta

Holy cow: I didn't realize that a college newspaper ad would have people getting their knickers all bunched up. Who has that kind of time?

You, apparently. ;)

Originally Posted by AZTheta

I thought amIblue's initial post about Kappa's bid list was pretty transparent and saw the humor in it and all ensuing posts.

Like this one?

Originally Posted by ElvisLover

Rumour has it that it's the order of the bid list. Just sayin'.

[Hartofsec]

Originally Posted by amIblue?

Why is it that you're spending time FB creeping anyone? Nice way to invade the privacy of strangers.

I thought this was funny, considering how often PNMs are told to clean up their facebook accounts because actives and alums will be viewing and combing through their social media.

Or would that be "creeping" and "invading the privacy of strangers."

Dramatic. lol.

[FSUZeta]

I seem to remember one year where one of the new member announcements was in alpha order by first name. Can't remember which sorority it was tho'.

[OleMissGlitter]

Originally Posted by AZTheta

Holy cow: I didn't realize that a college newspaper ad would have people getting their knickers all bunched up. Who has that kind of time? I thought amIblue's initial post about Kappa's bid list was pretty transparent and saw the humor in it and all ensuing posts. Apparently I missed that this is serious business.

Although, truthfully, I am somewhat irritated that Kappa has now become first to automatically initiate their snowflakes. Damn. They are always one-upping everyone. #annoyed

Amen! I saw the humor the entire time.

[amIblue?]

Originally Posted by Hartofsec

I thought this was funny, considering how often PNMs are told to clean up their facebook accounts because actives and alums will be viewing and combing through their social media.

Or would that be "creeping" and "invading the privacy of strangers."

Dramatic. lol.

Collegiate women checking out women who have voluntarily signed up for the opportunity to join a sorority is one way to vet women to whom you are considering extending an invitation to join a lifelong sisterhood. Random stranger looking them up to decipher the meaning of a list is creepy, IMO. Your mileage (obviously) does vary.

[DeltaBetaBaby]

Originally Posted by ElvisLover

Rumour has it that it's the order of the bid list. Just sayin'.

I thought it would be obvious that I was only kidding about this. It would make no sense for it to be the order of the bid list. The bid list that a group gets back from the GL office is alphabetized, after all the matching is done.

So, in order to have a list of the NM class in the order of the bid list, that would mean someone had an electronic copy of the bid list as submitted to the GL offfice, then took out all of the women who matched elsewhere, and then submitted the remaining names to the paper.

You'd be weirdly combining information from two different sources: the full, ordered bid list and the alphabetized list of women who matched. There's zero chance that is what happened. It's either random or ordered by some other NM attribute: hometown, PNM number, dorm, etc.

[ElvisLover]

I WAS only kidding about this. Guess I should have added a "wink" icon.

[DubaiSis]

I heard it was listed by their weight.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ yes, I AM feeling like a needless troublemaker today.

[AZTheta]

Hair color? Eye color? Car(s) they drive? Most expensive vacation? Plastic surgery?

Oh we could really have fun with this.

Back to the topic, enough silliness… sigh. I do love my Kappas, they always have to be doing something unique. It's that key thing, isn't it?

[pinksequins]

I saw the humor in DBB's and Blue's and others' posts (snowflakes, GED, et al). They made me smile. C'mon over to the veranda humorists, I'll spike up the sweet tea. : )