Professor's Negative Recommendations

[BlueNYC2]

Originally Posted by ladygreek

I have experienced and heard of where being in a sorority/fraternity has created better career networking opportunities.

I never considered it to be a hinderance. That prof sounds a little bitter for some reason.

she was either denied or an Eternal....

[PGD-GRAD]

Strangely enough, some 30 years ago a young sorority woman did mix Greek life and journalism at Indiana University and did it very well. Jane Pauley, who is a Kappa, was involved in both print and TV journalism at IU. She went on to the Today Show as well as other anchoring and interviewing opportunities. She has also done considerable writing. Guess she had a different advisor, or she didn't pay attention to those who told her you could not do both!

[DeltAlum]

Not being interested in starting a debate on her, one of Pauley's replacements on TODAY is also Greek.

Katie Couric is a Tri-Delt from UVA.

[KyleMcGuire1983]

Ridiculous. No professional would take you less seriously for being great.

HOWEVER, there is a caveat: Many PROFESSORS don't take you seriously because they're usually far left anti-establishment assholes who are more prejudiced than their right wing adveseries.....which is why if you are greek I would recommend you not wear letters in certain classes....ESPECIALLY at the more hippie schools.

[DeltAlum]

Originally Posted by KyleMcGuire1983

Ridiculous. No professional would take you less seriously for being great.

HOWEVER, there is a caveat: Many PROFESSORS don't take you seriously because they're usually far left anti-establishment assholes who are more prejudiced than their right wing adveseries.....which is why if you are greek I would recommend you not wear letters in certain classes....ESPECIALLY at the more hippie schools.

Wow. There's an interesting generality.

[Tom Earp]

What a shame an Academian would act like that

My Law Professor is(was)TKE. But the Dean of Students and Head of The Business Department had sons who joined my chapter!

If this person was so learned, then they should have know that Greeks have higher GPA! Go on to higher jobs because of the training they learned from being a Greek.

[AKA_Monet]

I had to tell an alumni city councilman about how the school was treating all fraternities and sororities on campus for student government (he was a member of an IFC fraternity), boy that was the fastest correction to the student government I ever saw... The school was doing wrong by all the greeks.