Alabama Recruitment

[33girl]

Originally Posted by Loyally Kappa

Well, sure, you make a fair comment.

Really, I wish more mamas and their daughters would discover Greekchat at least a year before going off to college and start asking questions BEFORE rush. Otherwise go to a smaller out of state school. Perhaps their rush is different than at the big schools.

HOWEVER ...

Let this be a caveat. When in Rome, do like the Romans ... lol!

(Oh yeah, they stole the Greek culture, didn't they?!?)

Definitely agree.

I'll put it this way: if I, a lifelong Pennsylvanian, looked on Bama's webpage and saw picures of girls wearing DRESSES AT FOOTBALL GAMES, this should be a tipoff to me that there are going to be LOTS of things that are different than what I grew up with, and anything I want to be involved with (including sorority rush) merits much research and investigation to do it properly.

[UGAalum94]

Originally Posted by 33girl

Definitely agree.

I'll put it this way: if I, a lifelong Pennsylvanian, looked on Bama's webpage and saw picures of girls wearing DRESSES AT FOOTBALL GAMES, this should be a tipoff to me that there are going to be LOTS of things that are different than what I grew up with, and anything I want to be involved with (including sorority rush) merits much research and investigation to do it properly.

And honestly, how could one end up partaking of this cross cultural experience without knowing, at least partially, what you were getting into. Hello! Tuscaloosa, Alabama! Hello!

I'm not moving to Pittsburgh, and then complaining about your capes! (Carnegie Mellon, joke, I think, right?)

[33girl]

Originally Posted by UGAalum94

And honestly, how could one end up partaking of this cross cultural experience without knowing, at least partially, what you were getting into. Hello! Tuscaloosa, Alabama! Hello!

I'm not moving to Pittsburgh, and then complaining about your capes! (Carnegie Mellon, joke, I think, right?)

ha ha - and even some Pittsburghers would look askance at that. We had a consultant one year who bemoaned our "casual" dress. Umm hello....we are on a hilly, rainy, snowy campus. We are not going to wear dress pants and heels and fall on our noses walking to class.

[KSUViolet06]

Originally Posted by 33girl

ha ha - and even some Pittsburghers would look askance at that. We had a consultant one year who bemoaned our "casual" dress. Umm hello....we are on a hilly, rainy, snowy campus. We are not going to wear dress pants and heels and fall on our noses walking to class.

Hey now, I'm an Ohio girl and we wore pin attire to most chapter meetings, which required us to trek across campus in heels and such in the snow!

[BlueCarnation]

Originally Posted by UGAalum94

And honestly, how could one end up partaking of this cross cultural experience without knowing, at least partially, what you were getting into. Hello! Tuscaloosa, Alabama! Hello!

I'm not moving to Pittsburgh, and then complaining about your capes! (Carnegie Mellon, joke, I think, right?)

Hey, I'm totally with you ladies!!! Absolutely, when in Rome...

I don't get the thing about the capes, but we managed to dress in pin attire in the frozen tundra.

[UGAalum94]

Originally Posted by BlueCarnation

Hey, I'm totally with you ladies!!! Absolutely, when in Rome...

I don't get the thing about the capes, but we managed to dress in pin attire in the frozen tundra.

The cape thing was just a joke going back a while with 33Girl when we were talking about differences in campus culture and how people saw their groups. Although it's funny for me to imagine an entire campus or city in capes. . .

I think there's a tendency for other regions to regard southern recruitment as particularly bizarre, and I'm not sure that we don't foster that some ourselves, but it's hard to see how it could be the campus's fault that a young woman chose a campus and the corresponding Greek system but then didn't realize what she was getting into.

[BlueCarnation]

Originally Posted by UGAalum94

The cape thing was just a joke going back a while with 33Girl when we were talking about differences in campus culture and how people saw their groups. Although it's funny for me to imagine an entire campus or city in capes. . .

I think there's a tendency for other regions to regard southern recruitment as particularly bizarre, and I'm not sure that we don't foster that some ourselves, but it's hard to see how it could be the campus's fault that a young woman choose a campus and the corresponding Greek system but then didn't realize what she was getting into.

I absolutely agree. For the record, I don't think it's bizarre, just totally different than what I've experienced; I like to hear about all the different rush processes and learn what goes on at all of them. I have learned so much in the past week and am excited for our recruitment coming up. I guess it's just a lot easier for some people to try find someone or something else to blame when it doesn't work out than to face the real facts.

[tainey]

I think there's a tendency for other regions to regard southern recruitment as particularly bizarre, and I'm not sure that we don't foster that some ourselves, but it's hard to see how it could be the campus's fault that a young woman choose a campus and the corresponding Greek system but then didn't realize what she was getting into.[/QUOTE]

grammar check at UGA? Just kidding truly!

[UGAalum94]

Originally Posted by tainey

I think there's a tendency for other regions to regard southern recruitment as particularly bizarre, and I'm not sure that we don't foster that some ourselves, but it's hard to see how it could be the campus's fault that a young woman choose a campus and the corresponding Greek system but then didn't realize what she was getting into.

grammar check at UGA? Just kidding truly![/QUOTE]

Would you have preferred some dashes around "and I'm not sure we don't foster that ourselves"?

I fixed the choose for chose issue.

Hey, it was late at night for me.

[AnchorAlumna]

Originally Posted by 33girl

...if I, a lifelong Pennsylvanian, looked on Bama's webpage and saw picures of girls wearing DRESSES AT FOOTBALL GAMES...

In 1980, my husband and I and a group drove up to Pennsylvania to attend an Alabama-Penn State and were quite amused by the differences.

We would not get to the stadium less than one hour before kickoff, even with reserved seats....the Penn Staters wandered in about halfway through the first quarter. Even as alumni, we would never wear jeans to a game (back then...not now)...the Lions wore jeans, boots and sweatshirts (no need for a sweatshirt at an Alabama game until November!)...intoxicant of choice at Bama=bourbon...intoxicant of choice at Penn State=some sort of blackberry cordial...we Bama fans stayed until the end, and then some to cheer...Nittany Lions began wandering off at the beginning of the fourth quarter. Granted, we won...but still, the game could be won or lost in the last seconds, so you'd better stay!

No one right or wrong way...just different.