Ready...Set....Turn on MTV - Page 5

EagleChick19 · #61 07-16-2002, 07:18 PM

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Originally posted by ThielGirlie

Oh, have you also noticed that their computer always has a Yahoo screensaver on it, and on the last episode one of the off camera pledge's laptops had a "Do you Yahoo!?" sticker on it.

Gotta love commercialization...

If MTV didn't have commercial placement, what would they do for money??

stargirl725 · #62 07-16-2002, 11:24 PM

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Originally posted by ThielGirlie

MTV/SAEPi is probably getting paid mucho bucks for her to wear that. If you notice, the sleve has "Greek 101" written on it, as in the online greek store that makes rhinestone tees. Paid advertisement.

Oh, I know why she has it, but couldn't they at least have given her, say, the same shirt in a couple of different colors?

Ick. I'm going to be a Rho Chi this fall and I'm already getting a headache thinking about the questions my group will be asking as a direct result of this show.

A couple other random things:

I thought I should mention (since I know I'm more MTV-addicted than most people, LOL) that with these reality shows, the people who "lie low" in the beginning are often major players later on. So I'm guessing that Dede will get a lot more airtime later on. Conversely, the people who get a ton of attention in the beginning usually get less as the show goes along.

Also, like someone said before, according to the photo album on SAEPi's website, all 6 of them either make it to initiation or get very close -- they're all accounted for in pictures taken a couple weeks before initiation.

And James: Thank you, thank you, thank you. Jessica has grated on my nerves from day one and I've never understood the pedestal GC puts her on.

DGgirl02 · #63 07-17-2002, 01:52 AM

Hey what's the address for their website?

Katey Alpha Gam · #64 07-17-2002, 02:00 AM

I totally agree w/letting up on their hair. My hair is curlier than Jordan's so BE NICE. We can't help it!! But I think a good point was made about it that that much hair spray is BAD. Curly hair is dry, alcohol in hair spray dries it out, so her hair is prolly a mess. Just a thought, do you think MTV does their hair and make-up for some parts of the show?

Eaglechick-I'm a Poli Sci major too, but I don't think that's a reason to try and like Jordan (for me at least) if she is out of control, she makes Poli Sci majors look like we are all on our way to a major political scandal!!!!!

EagleChick19 · #65 07-17-2002, 08:54 AM

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Originally posted by Katey Alpha Gam
I totally agree w/letting up on their hair. My hair is curlier than Jordan's so BE NICE. We can't help it!! But I think a good point was made about it that that much hair spray is BAD. Curly hair is dry, alcohol in hair spray dries it out, so her hair is prolly a mess. Just a thought, do you think MTV does their hair and make-up for some parts of the show?

Eaglechick-I'm a Poli Sci major too, but I don't think that's a reason to try and like Jordan (for me at least) if she is out of control, she makes Poli Sci majors look like we are all on our way to a major political scandal!!!!!

I wasn't mocking the curly hair...I have naturally wavy (very) hair, so I know its hard to keep under control. I would have to think MTV does their makeup/hair for some parts (No one can look that perfect all the time!!)

Katey Alpha Gam-- I know that her being a Poli Sci major isn't a good reason to like her. With all of her alcoholic stunts, she is showing Poli Sci majors/Greek sisters are headed for a major problem...

MTV doesn't see that the image that are presenting to the public is what PNMs in the fall/spring are going to have in their head when they go and choose a sorority/house!

Katey Alpha Gam · #66 07-17-2002, 10:55 AM

MTV doesn't care b/c they don't care about anything but ratings. Does anyone else remember the better days when MTV wasn't a bunch of corporate tools and they actually did cool stuff and it wasn't "All TRL all the time"??? God just once I'd like them to do something that isn't based on ratings again!! And I'd like to go on record that this could start with no more N'Sync and Backstreet Boys!!!!

EagleChick19 · #67 07-17-2002, 11:16 AM

Yeah, it was actually a time when the M in MTV stood for music!!!

GtownGirl98 · #68 07-17-2002, 01:25 PM

For the most part, all of us on this board are children of the MTV generation, correct. We are the ones who have watch the raise and supported the rise of MTV, so why don't we do something about it?

Why don't we tell MTV what we think? Tell them that they need to rename the show, that they aren't promoting Greek life like we were lead to believe, and that they really need to help the girls out with the hair situation.

I am an MTV Really World, Road Rules addict, and now I am starting to be a sorority life just to see what they will **** up next. As the Chicago RW group stated on the reunion show, they had a lot of funny moments that weren't filled with controversey that they could have added to the shows.

Too bad NPC didn't get involved with this, because it could have been a great PR move for the RUSH season coming up!

If you were NPC/MTV what would you have done to protray a good look at the real pledge semester?

33girl · #69 07-17-2002, 01:47 PM

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Originally posted by GtownGirl98
Why don't we tell MTV what we think?

We did, and the message board for the show "mysteriously" vanished.

Even if PBS or someone else would do a documentary on Greek life, and it would be positive - I still wouldn't want my sorority on it. That's my family. I don't want every little quirk of my family splashed over TV in endless reruns. Any more than I would want my biological family to be involved in such a project.

EagleChick19 · #70 07-17-2002, 01:49 PM

MTV doesn't want the opinions of sorority girls..they just want to do creative editing and show the negative aspects of Greek Life..

TrojanGirl · #71 07-17-2002, 02:16 PM

I love this!

This is MTV.com's synopsis of this weeks episode. Sounds like it was written by a junior high schooler!

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Picnic Day is a UC Davis tradition. The sisters have a barbecue at the sorority house, and everyone meets each other's families. The pledges go buck wild, and Candace's parents come into town for her 21st birthday.

Candace, Jordan, Amanda and Mara go out with Candace's parents to celebrate her birthday, and they all end up getting really drunk. Plastered! When they get home, Jordan, Amanda, and Candace pile into the hot tub. Jordan gets up to go into the house and falls down into a pile of mud.

The sisters meet to talk about the pledges' behavior and how it can be addressed. They decide to call a meeting. Becca calls the house and asks Jessica to spread the word, but she tells Jessica that she does not have to be at the meeting because there have been no reported problems with her.

At the meeting to address the concerns, the pledges get very upset. They feel like the sisters are not trying to understand that they have been singled out, they are not included in everything, and they each have so many things on their plate. Jordan cries, and not very much is accomplished. The meeting ends with no apparent resolution - only the sisters feeling that they have done what they need to do.

Un-freaking-believable

TG

aephi alum · #72 07-17-2002, 04:13 PM

A possible beneficial side effect of the show has occurred to me. Before you all start asking me what I'm smoking

- I think the show may help younger local and regional GLO's in establishing policies and procedures for things like rush and new member programs.

For example, Sigma AEPi doesn't appear to have well-defined standards or a standards board. The sisters talk about "un-Sigma-like behavior" but exactly what behaviors are "un-Sigma-like" haven't really been defined (at least, not on camera). Neither have the consequences of doing something "un-Sigma-like". If the new members had been sat down right at the beginning, given specific examples of inappropriate behavior, and told that if they engaged in that type of behavior their membership would be in jeopardy, I think the girls would have thought twice before bringing alcohol into the house, getting plastered on Candace's birthday, etc. If they did it anyway, they should each have been made to answer (individually) to a standards board, and told (for example) "We're taking x points away from you because you were doing _____, which is un-Sigma-like behavior as we explained it to you at the beginning of your pledge period."

In terms of rush, we've seen how bothered the PNM's were when they were asked about their religious affiliation, and how inappropriate it was when sisters discussed PNM's within earshot of other PNM's.

Maybe this show will give not just Sigma AEPi but all locals a clearer picture of how things can go wrong and how it can be prevented. Just a thought.

Colleenie · #73 07-17-2002, 05:01 PM

Why was Dede called into the meeting? We haven't seen her doing anything, let alone engage in "un-Sigma-like" behavior. This show leaves me with the feeling I'm only getting half of the story...I hate that feeling! Does it seem like MTV is editing the show to makes us boo hoo for Jordan b/c the big bad sorority sisters are picking on MTV's little princess??? As someone else said before, this show is a train wreck

maggieaxid · #74 07-18-2002, 09:00 AM

someone please define "un-sigma-like behavior"....

LeslieAGD · #75 07-18-2002, 11:46 AM

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Originally posted by aephi alum
A possible beneficial side effect of the show has occurred to me. Before you all start asking me what I'm smoking - I think the show may help younger local and regional GLO's in establishing policies and procedures for things like rush and new member programs.

Maybe this show will give not just Sigma AEPi but all locals a clearer picture of how things can go wrong and how it can be prevented. Just a thought.

Although you may have a point, I really doubt it this will be the mindset.