Better Late Than Never...My Philly Fall '08 Recruitment Story

[honeychile]

FWIW, I don't remember ever being able to guess a school before this thread, and refuse to play sleuth (frankly, I rarely have the time). If I was able to figure it out, I'd say almost anyone can.

[TSteven]

Originally Posted by jetage

76ers: The last house. I was getting tired from spending 45 minutes each at all the previous houses. The house was nice from what I could see but they weren’t even giving tours of the individual rooms like all the other houses did. The girls seemed a bit odd and everyone in my group came to the consensus that this was the least desirable house. We just stood in the back and munched on their food and avoided talking for the last 20 minutes we had to be there.

I only knew which house I did NOT want to go back to after Round One, so my rankings were:
1. Phillies
2. Liberty
3. Franklin
4. Rocky
5. 76ers

Over the years, there have been many a story with some sort of recruitment twist. Wouldn't it have been interesting if jetage came back to report that her initial impression about the 76ers had changed and that she grew to love them. Perhaps even receive and accept a bid from them. Now we may never know.

[kiteflyersmom]

Originally Posted by kddani

Well this part sure gave it away for me. I would be quite surprised if Penn had a fashion merchandising major.

LOL! I was the idiot who guessed Penn.

I didn't even pick up on that. However, now that you mention it, a fashion merchandising major would indicate that Penn is not likely.

[Gusteau]

Originally Posted by TSteven

Over the years, there have been many a story with some sort of recruitment twist. Wouldn't it have been interesting if jetage came back to report that her initial impression about the 76ers had changed and that she grew to love them. Perhaps even receive and accept a bid from them. Now we may never know.

I feel like she would have come back to prove us wrong if things ended up turning around and she became the respectful PNM we all wished she would be. Besides, the gaping holes in plausibility as well as the similarities to the other sketchy threads makes me doubt that it was even real.

My theory: Eaglesbaby took some time off and picked and researched an actual school to set her fiction in because the biggest flaw in her original story was that no one could identify the school and it had an undetermined number of locals that may or may not have participated in formal recruitment. But hey, I may have taken the conspiracy bandwagon for too many loops around the liberty bell...

[groovypq]

Originally Posted by Gusteau

But hey, I may have taken the conspiracy bandwagon for too many loops around the liberty bell...

Did you lick the Liberty Bell too??

[kiteflyersmom]

Originally Posted by Gusteau

I feel like she would have come back to prove us wrong if things ended up turning around and she became the respectful PNM we all wished she would be. Besides, the gaping holes in plausibility as well as the similarities to the other sketchy threads makes me doubt that it was even real.

My theory: Eaglesbaby took some time off and picked and researched an actual school to set her fiction in because the biggest flaw in her original story was that no one could identify the school and it had an undetermined number of locals that may or may not have participated in formal recruitment. But hey, I may have taken the conspiracy bandwagon for too many loops around the liberty bell...

Actually- I think you have a point! Using a real setting was one way to make it sound more legit than the earlier threads. However, the writing style was the same and the similarities between the chapters in the different threads was a giveaway.

[ComradesTrue]

I agree that there are certainly many similarities that can arouse suspicion here. However, one key difference is that the OP for this thread did actually join last December. Not saying that that is near enough to refute the suspicion, just pointing out a small difference.

I did express shock early on in this thread about her behavior in one of the houses. One thing GC has taught me is that my personal experience with Greek Life does not translate to everyone else's. So my question:

Are there any campuses, and specifically the one the poster is referring to in this thread, for which the scenario that she paints about not being with an active during a party, and FOOD being served during Round 1 are plausable? That is absolutely *not* the way it is done at any school I am familiar with, but then again, like I said, I have learned that there is plenty of variation from campus to campus.

[Merci11]

Originally Posted by Blondie93

I agree that there are certainly many similarities that can arouse suspicion here. However, one key difference is that the OP for this thread did actually join last December. Not saying that that is near enough to refute the suspicion, just pointing out a small difference.

I can't believe none of us realized that. You don't have to be a member to read gc, so why would eaglesbaby join 5-6 months before posting a fake story using a different name? (and then creating a bunch more names and fake stories before defaulting to one she made months ago)

I'm suspect of some of these stories myself, however just to point out, there are several retros from years back that color code their GLOs (I've been re-reading a bunch of old stories to avoid homework for my summer class) and several GLOs on campus do tend to attract different stereotypes of people.

Also, every school's recruitment and chapters are different. When reading recruitment stories, there are many things that are similar and bring back mostly good memories (okay and a few that I'd like to forget) and then there are other times when I have no clue exactly what is going on. Unless we're from the school in the story, we can't completely say we know exactly what goes on there.

I'm defending anyone or anything, I'm just pointing a few things out.

And Blondie93, when I went through recruitment, during the 1st round one of the houses did have food for us. I think it was just cookies though, but I definitely remember there being food.

[LadyLonghorn]

Originally Posted by Blondie93

I agree that there are certainly many similarities that can arouse suspicion here. However, one key difference is that the OP for this thread did actually join last December. Not saying that that is near enough to refute the suspicion, just pointing out a small difference.

I did express shock early on in this thread about her behavior in one of the houses. One thing GC has taught me is that my personal experience with Greek Life does not translate to everyone else's. So my question:

Are there any campuses, and specifically the one the poster is referring to in this thread, for which the scenario that she paints about not being with an active during a party, and FOOD being served during Round 1 are plausable? That is absolutely *not* the way it is done at any school I am familiar with, but then again, like I said, I have learned that there is plenty of variation from campus to campus.

Well eaglesbaby also claimed she'd been lurking for a long time. Maybe she decided that the first id she created in December was too personal since she was making the whole big fat lie of a recruitment story up. She might have been worried about getting found out.

I don't know about the food thing, but I imagine it would be possible for some pnms to drift away from actives if they were being double or triple rushed by a chapter struggling with numbers.

It is really curious that neither of these philly girls has been back to continue their stories or explain/defend themselves.

[Gusteau]

Originally Posted by Blondie93

I agree that there are certainly many similarities that can arouse suspicion here. However, one key difference is that the OP for this thread did actually join last December. Not saying that that is near enough to refute the suspicion, just pointing out a small difference.

I did express shock early on in this thread about her behavior in one of the houses. One thing GC has taught me is that my personal experience with Greek Life does not translate to everyone else's. So my question:

Are there any campuses, and specifically the one the poster is referring to in this thread, for which the scenario that she paints about not being with an active during a party, and FOOD being served during Round 1 are plausable? That is absolutely *not* the way it is done at any school I am familiar with, but then again, like I said, I have learned that there is plenty of variation from campus to campus.

Oh well, that theory's gone. Good job! All of this Philadelphia stuff might just be a coincidence a la eaglesbaby - italiachica. In any case, eaglesbaby has succeeded in burning a place in our memories. Clearly my boring job leaves too much time for sleuthing!

[ComradesTrue]

Originally Posted by Gusteau

Oh well, that theory's gone. Good job! All of this Philadelphia stuff might just be a coincidence a la eaglesbaby - italiachica. In any case, eaglesbaby has succeeded in burning a place in our memories. Clearly my boring job leaves too much time for sleuthing!

Honestly I don't think the theory is completely gone. As LL pointed out our budding novelist "eaglesbaby" did indicate that she had been lurking for awhile. She could have joined and lurked under this user name, then when she decided to write a story she created her multiple other personalities (ahem, user names). When those were busted perhaps she just opted to write under this original user name. Remember it was keeping all those usernames straight that busted her the last time!

There is definitely some smoke here. Nothing proven, but definitely smoke.

[33girl]

Originally Posted by Blondie93

I agree that there are certainly many similarities that can arouse suspicion here. However, one key difference is that the OP for this thread did actually join last December. Not saying that that is near enough to refute the suspicion, just pointing out a small difference.

She probably joined so she could read the "recruitment" stories of everyone else from her creative writing webgroup that's been posting here. I stand by my theory that this is a large-scale field trip.

[AOIIalum]

Originally Posted by 33girl

She probably joined so she could read the "recruitment" stories of everyone else from her creative writing webgroup that's been posting here. I stand by my theory that this is a large-scale field trip.

Well, if you're right, I hope they get a bit more creative with their stories. Color coding and everyone being at a Philly area school...like shooting fish in the proverbial barrel...

[Shellfish]

Darn it, now I'll never be able to tell my Philadelphia-area rush story, but it could all fit in one post on the Weird Rush Stories thread, its real home.

[texas*princess]

Originally Posted by als463

I wasn't trying to be hateful-I assumed everyone else picked up on the school. I'm sorry. Even though my GLO does very well at that school, I still don't like the way she talked about other chapters....Had she said GOOD stuff throughout the post about each chapter-I would not have felt the need to question whether or not it was Drexel. Next time, I will keep to myself but, it was mentioned on here that she pretty much outted herself. Ooops!

FWIW, my post wasn't directed at you, it was directed at the OP.

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure things out like schools, groups, whatever. People posting threads need to use discretion (i.e. not put info that can identify them, their school, whatever).

I think it's awful that the OP thinks she can talk shizz about any chapters the way she did. It is just a common theme in the same old "retro" threads because they want to be "brutally honest" (You have NO idea how run down that phrase is around here!). They think since it's over they can be classless and say rude things because they already have a membership to some other chapter.