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Originally posted by adduncan
Someone at the FreeP must be Greek......... not that I'm complaining, mind you. 
You have to understand that back in my undergrad days, this type of informational article about Greek recruitment would NEVER have been printed, at least not in a positive or even impartial light.
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I don't know your situation when you graduated -- you may be right.
But, my experience is that the amount of positive "ink" about Greek Life is directly proportional to the amount of PR and publicity put out by the GLO's themselves. The opposite is often due to a lack thereof.
I write this about every six months, when this kind of article comes out, but media don't have enough staff to call every student organization and see what's going on. They call the Police and Fire Department, because they will almost certainly have some kind of news -- but "ordinary" groups need to be proactive in getting the word out.
The best I've seen lately is TEKE Nationals, who have probably been flooding media with positive stuff, because they're getting a lot of good local, regional and national press.
Don't complain about the media -- use it to your best advantage. Then when something unfortunate happens, there will be good thoughts weighing against the bad -- even at the newspaper.
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