Facebook... "Dirty Rushing"?

GtownGirl98 · #1 01-17-2007, 09:49 PM

I'm thinking about the campus' with spring rush... these girls have had a full semester to get to know people and befriend them. I would think that it would be easy to dirty rush now a days (not to say it wasn't totally easy to do before the internet) to drop a note of "great to see you tonight, there was great buzz about you." OR "great time with you tonight, see you tomorrow". And these things don't always show up in the feeds and headlines.

I'm also thankful I am not in college, going through rush, now. It would be very hard.

ΑΓΔSquirrelGirl · #2 01-18-2007, 12:57 AM

We had to make our profiles on Facebook AND Myspace friends only and if we were friends with any PNM (excepting those that were already students at the school the semester before, I think) we had to de-friend them. You can actually still send messages, though...there's probably no good way to avoid all that. If people really want to make contact online and dirty rush they will. You just have to hope that both the other GLOs and your own girls will step up to the plate and be honest. We mostly do it just to keep the identity of Rho Chis private. I went through Fall 2005 and we figured out affiliations based on what was written on peoples' facebook walls.

33girl · #3 01-18-2007, 11:29 AM

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Originally Posted by GtownGirl98

I'm thinking about the campus' with spring rush... these girls have had a full semester to get to know people and befriend them. I would think that it would be easy to dirty rush now a days (not to say it wasn't totally easy to do before the internet) to drop a note of "great to see you tonight, there was great buzz about you." OR "great time with you tonight, see you tomorrow". And these things don't always show up in the feeds and headlines.

I'm also thankful I am not in college, going through rush, now. It would be very hard.

That's just a technologically updated version of telling a rushee the same thing when you see her in the dorm. It happened then, it's going to happen now.

Also I think there's something now that silence/disaffiliation for Rho Chis isn't supposed to be more than 30 days? So you couldn't say someone is "off limits" from spring until rush week, or all of the fall if you have spring rush.

FSUZeta · #4 01-19-2007, 02:33 PM

panhellenics can make whatever rules they want-if they want to make silence from the last day of the spring semester until bid day in the fall, they can do it. some panhellenic rules get veryspecific about suitable contact between a pnm and a sorority member.

jaade124 · #5 01-22-2007, 11:20 AM

I recall a sorority on my campus (won't say which one) that made a rush group for their sorority on facebook. They also had an informational party before rush started which is against the rules at my school. Most sororities got in a tizzy about that group on facebook though...they felt like it was dirty rushing bc it was before anyone even got to speak to these girls *shrugs* Facebook and myspace cause a number of problems and unfortunately they are just too hard to monitor sometimes.

blackngoldengrl · #6 01-22-2007, 08:14 PM

I think I even saw that group on facebook, and I didn't go to your school. One of my high school classmates was a member. I thought it was kind of strange when I first saw it, and I was suprised that it remained up for as long as it did. (I have no idea if it is up there at present)

FSUZeta · #7 01-22-2007, 09:16 PM

let me get this straight-the sorority set up a group on facebook like: fall rush 2006 or are you rushing this fall, and pnms joined the group? wow! i have known of some campuses where the rho gammas or panhellenic hosted a facebook group like that.

that sorority should have suffered some major fines for that and the pre rush party.

amanda6035 · #8 01-22-2007, 09:29 PM

Oh my god, facebook makes my blood boil for this reason. Good topic, OP. I'm curious to know how college panhellenics can combat this problem. Because seriously - you cant see what goes on behind the scenes. Sure, you might see a wall post - but you can only make wall posts if you're friends. And even if you make a rule about you cant be friends with freshmen girls, you can STILL talk to them through private messages and dirty rush them that way.

Our panhellenic, still under construction, has decided that the Panhellenic president and VP will have to dissafiliate this year. So how does that work? Do those members have to temporarily remove all their sisters from their friends list so that a PNM cant look at their friends list and say "my my, this person sure does have alot of XYZs on her friends list"....and are pictures of that person with XYZ letters in the background - do they have to be removed?" How does a college panhelleic association force all the members of the sororities to remove pictures of disaffiliated women? How can you enforce that each sorority member HAS to make her profile viewable by only her current friends?

Seriously, it's such crap. There's no way to effectively monitor it. And you cant tell me that all sororities on every campus are going to promise to play fair and not private message girls where the public cant see you've been talking to them.

Is there anybody from GA State on here? Some of the AZDs from there told me that the panhellenic there had some pretty strict rules - I'm curious as to how you guys made it work.

jaade124 · #9 02-08-2007, 12:09 PM

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Originally Posted by FSUZeta

let me get this straight-the sorority set up a group on facebook like: fall rush 2006 or are you rushing this fall, and pnms joined the group? wow! i have known of some campuses where the rho gammas or panhellenic hosted a facebook group like that.

that sorority should have suffered some major fines for that and the pre rush party.

sorry it took me so long to respond! yes i agree! however, this semester which is formal recruitment, panhell decided that facebook recruitment groups could be allowed! However, they had to be shutdown after round robin (which was last night). I still feel tho that facebook is the ultimate dirty rushing tool and there's not much we can do about it.

Concerning rho chis, I kno that the rho chis from my sorority defriended all their sisters, took anything sorority related out of their profiles, and the rest of the chapter was told to make our profiles private or take all pics down of rho chis. A huge pain in the arse.

DMCBlondie · #10 05-09-2007, 01:49 AM

At my school its required that all women in sororities make their facebook profiles private. We don't want PNM's making judgements based on information they find because it may not reflect the whole chapter. We are not allowed to accept any friend requests until recruitment is over. PNM's should make their profiles private too. I know individuals that have used facebook to judge PNMs. I would advise PNM's to put up a pretty picture and make it private! The same goes with myspace.