ABC family is about to walk into the 4th chapter of the TV series "GREEK"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0976014/
"Freshman Rusty arrives at college and decides he no longer wants to be the boring geek from high school. Now he must deal with his sister, sorority girl Casey, who denies his existence, Evan, his sister's boyfriend who denied him a bid to his fraternity because he told Casey about his infidelity, Dale his uptight roommate who thinks Greeks are only about drinking and fornication, and Calvin and his new friend who is in Evan's fraternity and having trouble dealing with his homosexuality." -IMDB plot summary
Do you watch it? Do you feel is a proper picture of Greek life.
The show touches on many subjects that any college student can relate: Relationships, cheating, credit card debt, pressure to lose virginity, drinking, drugs. Except this show is ABOUT Greek life, and it is filmed in 3 primary fictional houses. ZBZ sorority, Omega Chi - the #1 fraternity on campus, sweater vest and trust fund men, and Kappa Tau Gamma - party boys, slackers, the like. You hear about others like the slut sorority (Tri-pi) and the nerdy Fraternity - Phi Chi Psi (or something like that)
Anyway- Because this show revolves around the family of Greek life, it talks about hazing, though no one is what one would severely hazed, (beaten, forced to drink, forced to break laws) hazing is involved, KT pledge Rusty has to serve his brothers drinks in a dress and blond wig. and do his brothers errands all during the pledge process.... which in the show is a school year long.
The show also deals with the issue of a gay pledge, who - though is legacy - he dropps out of pledging because his soon to be brothers felt betrayed and lied to, and he feels it wasn't their business if he was gay (he did not let them know he was homosexual until ZBZ Ashlee let it slip).
Do you feel this show is a risk management issue? Would you be offended if someone though of your Sorority/fraternity in this light? Do you feel this is accurate in the fact that, just like any organizations, issues in leadership arise, and nationals has to step in, (as seen in the ZBZ house where the orig pres wants to hide an issue from nationals and gets removed from her presidency)
How does this show put greek life in a bad light? Or does is create an accurate picture that could almost be helpful in the sense that college is college and people mature and grow and come across a lot of issues whether or not your in a greek house.
Please discuss.
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