Birmingham Southern College Bid list!

[greekalum]

Do students have a right to opt out of that? I guess that would be considered directory information, but post-Buckley Amendment that seems like the type of thing universities would shy away form.

[PeppyGPhiB]

I think it's creepy, too. Maybe because things like which girls join which sororities isn't a topic that would get covered in the newspapers here out on the West coast. At least I can't imagine it would, and I've never seen anything like it. The most similar I've seen is when some newspapers here in Seattle print each year the top 10 graduates of area high schools, and where they're going to college.

[PenguinTrax]

University of NE-Lincoln used to publish the recruitment results in the Lincoln and Omaha newspapers. Don't know if they do that anymore. Used to aggravate us at the UN-Omaha campus because the World-Herald would never do the same for the GLOs on our campus.

[jessXIca]

Personally I don't think it's "creepy", I just don't see what the point is of posting a bunch of girls' names that none of us know.

[tunatartare]

That too. If you know that 13 girls pledged your sorority at State U, and are personally not going to meet most of them, does it really matter what their names are?

[aopinthesky]

Originally Posted by KLPDaisy

That too. If you know that 13 girls pledged your sorority at State U, and are personally not going to meet most of them, does it really matter what their names are?

So you have said, a number of times. Some people don't like the practice and some do. The names have been removed from THIS site (unless you want to click the link), so what is the ongoing issue?

[carnation]

Look, folks. Almost every sorority website I've ever seen lists the members and often their class standing and/or hometown. On one of my daughters' sorority websites, the girls' email addresses are listed. When the oldest was an active, each girl had a hyperlink to an individual photo of her if she wanted. How is that different from posting the new members? Most of the sororities will post their new members on their own sites anyway as soon as they can get to it.

I am sure that all the girls who rushed at BSC and are listed signed a paper to waive privacy rights regarding that issue. And it's too bad if you think it's creepy but most NMs I know around here want the world to know what they pledged. We alums who recommended them want to know too.

This did not come from some private listing; just like the Auburn and Alabama bid lists that were published on this forum a month ago, it's straight from the Panhellenic website. I am sure their hearts will be broken if they hear that some person who has nothing to do with NPC sororities or BSC was offended.

[tunatartare]

Originally Posted by PeppyGPhiB

I think it's creepy, too. Maybe because things like which girls join which sororities isn't a topic that would get covered in the newspapers here out on the West coast. At least I can't imagine it would, and I've never seen anything like it. The most similar I've seen is when some newspapers here in Seattle print each year the top 10 graduates of area high schools, and where they're going to college.

I feel that it's one thing when hometown newspapers publish recruitment results because those have a fairly small circulation and the girls being written about are aware of it. When bid lists get published on the school's website and reposted on GC, most, if not all, of those girls are not aware of that and that's what I think is creepy about it.