"Tent Talk"

UofISigKap · #1 06-13-2006, 09:57 AM

I still remember what one of my roommates told me when she was going through recruitment.

"I heard that ABC serves little cheesecakes at their parties and they watch if you eat any. If you do, you get cut because that's how they make sure they get girls who are watching their weight."

According to her, that group also "circled the fat" too.

Scandia · #2 06-13-2006, 10:21 AM

I did read in a rumor website or book a loooooong time ago that some sorority offered a girl seconds during rush. And that the girl accepted. And that they cut her off automatically due to that because "it was not ladylike to have seconds".

Anyhow, I had heard horror stories about a certain sorority on campus. From "they did drugs" to "they are a cult" and then some. Yet at rush, they were one of the houses I liked best. It was the last one I went to. And I remember when I went home telling my mother how much I liked that house.

Some facts are verifiable, such as "this house has many honor students". But others are just junk you should not listen to, such as "this house dresses you in plastic bags and circles your fat". And yet others are rather positive, but trickier to confirm, such as "they are very prim and proper" or "they are very athletic".

SockPuppet3 · #3 06-14-2006, 12:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Scandia

Some facts are verifiable, such as "this house has many honor students". But others are just junk you should not listen to, such as "this house dresses you in plastic bags and circles your fat". And yet others are rather positive, but trickier to confirm, such as "they are very prim and proper" or "they are very athletic".

This is the aspect I think would be difficult when it came time to planning a program on the so-called myths. Some of the reputations (whether negative or positive) are what they are simply because they've been earned. Meaning, XYZs really do only take girls with 3.8 GPA or higher, or ABCs are all overweight, or every homecoming queen for the past decade has been a QRS. It would be wrong for the program to insinuate to PNMs that everything they hear is false, when we all know that some of it is very true.

Don't get me wrong, I think a program would be a good idea, it'd just be hard to find a way to dispell actual myths while at the same time not dispelling actual (and maybe deserved) reputations.

Or, maybe it would be good to try to dispell all (true and false) reputations. I don't know.

33girl · #4 06-14-2006, 01:34 PM

If an ABC really has been the homecoming queen for the last 20 years, that isn't a reputation, that's a fact. However, it doesn't necessarily mean anything. Maybe it's because they were all drop dead gorgeous. Maybe it's because they were all super fugly, but they had someone behind the scenes who manipulated the votes. Maybe it's because they were smart enough to only nominate one girl from their chapter, while the other sororities were stupid and nominated like 3 and the votes got split up and ABC won just because they were a little more politically savvy.

Grades are a different matter, if your national says you can only take above so and so GPA that's that.

And I have yet to see a sorority where EVERY SINGLE SISTER IN THE CHAPTER was overweight.

AlphaFrog · #5 06-14-2006, 01:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 33girl

And I have yet to see a sorority where EVERY SINGLE SISTER IN THE CHAPTER was overweight.

Yes, but unfortunately, 3 or 4 who are get you the "Cow" rep. Even if the rest make Nicole Richie look like a heifer.

SockPuppet3 · #6 06-14-2006, 01:49 PM

I was just using examples to make a point. I didn't mean for the examples to be taken so literally. I just meant that, when preparing for such a program, it might be wise to acknowledge the fact that some of what PNMs hear in "Tent talk" is clearly false, but some of it is actually true. They shouldn't be advised to dismiss everything they hear in such discussions. That's all I'm saying.

tunatartare · #7 06-14-2006, 01:51 PM

When I was rushing, I heard the fat circling rumor all the time. My sorority used to have a lot of big girls in it. The first night, I went into the KLP room, took one look at half the girls, and went "yes, thank G-d, they don't circle fat!"

33girl · #8 06-14-2006, 01:57 PM

At any rate, any program like that would be counterproductive, because if there were any PNMs who hadn't heard the rumors or false reps before then, well guess what, they know them NOW!

The best thing to do is to say "unless the sorority itself tells you something, don't believe it." Obviously if a sorority has had the homecoming queen for 20 years running, they'll tell you. If you (PNM you) want to investigate that farther, or if you think homecoming is the dumbest thing since World War 2 and you want nothing more to do w/ them because of that, that's your business.

fifi225 · #9 06-26-2006, 01:45 AM

Hahaha. Oh ADPiUCF how right you are.

Having rushed (TWICE) via formal recrutment at UCF I gotta tell you, you've got it dead on.

The first time I went through rush I listened intently.....aaaaaaaaaaaaand wound up somewhere where I didn't really belong. Somewhere I really wasn't happy. So, I dropped.

So, I waited and rushed again.

I spent my time in the tents inwardly giggling at the stupid things the girls said and trying my best to stop them from damaging other PNM's experiences like mine had been messed with years before.

It's funny, the second way got me right where I belonged. (Imagine that)