Professor's Negative Recommendations

[KyleMcGuire1983]

Ridiculous. No professional would take you less seriously for being great.

HOWEVER, there is a caveat: Many PROFESSORS don't take you seriously because they're usually far left anti-establishment assholes who are more prejudiced than their right wing adveseries.....which is why if you are greek I would recommend you not wear letters in certain classes....ESPECIALLY at the more hippie schools.

[DeltAlum]

Originally Posted by KyleMcGuire1983

Ridiculous. No professional would take you less seriously for being great.

HOWEVER, there is a caveat: Many PROFESSORS don't take you seriously because they're usually far left anti-establishment assholes who are more prejudiced than their right wing adveseries.....which is why if you are greek I would recommend you not wear letters in certain classes....ESPECIALLY at the more hippie schools.

Wow. There's an interesting generality.

[Tom Earp]

What a shame an Academian would act like that

My Law Professor is(was)TKE. But the Dean of Students and Head of The Business Department had sons who joined my chapter!

If this person was so learned, then they should have know that Greeks have higher GPA! Go on to higher jobs because of the training they learned from being a Greek.

[AKA_Monet]

I had to tell an alumni city councilman about how the school was treating all fraternities and sororities on campus for student government (he was a member of an IFC fraternity), boy that was the fastest correction to the student government I ever saw... The school was doing wrong by all the greeks.

[Thetagirl218]

Kate Snow from ABC News/Good Morning America is a Theta...

[Phimuteach]

Originally Posted by KyleMcGuire1983

Ridiculous. No professional would take you less seriously for being great.

HOWEVER, there is a caveat: Many PROFESSORS don't take you seriously because they're usually far left anti-establishment assholes who are more prejudiced than their right wing adveseries.....which is why if you are greek I would recommend you not wear letters in certain classes....ESPECIALLY at the more hippie schools.

How did political beliefs get dragged into this? You don't have to be conservative or liberal to be anti-greek. There are plenty of anti-greeks from both sides of the fence.

Originally Posted by DeltAlum

Wow. There's an interesting generality.

Agreed.

[Sister Havana]

I was a journalism major at IU and I can tell you that attitudes in the J-school have definitely changed. I had a ton of Greeks in my journalism classes. In fact, I took one class when I returned where I think everyone except two or three people were Greek. Several of the editors of the newspaper were Greek (I think we had two or three AXiD editors-in-chief in a row! I know that sorority had a large concentration of journalism majors.)

[Faith4Keep]

I am a girl in engineering, and know several other guys in engineering in fraternities and also some guys/girls that are greek that are hard-core science majors.

Many of them NEVER wear their letters to any class. MOST recommend to not wear letters or greek stuff the first 4-5 weeks of class.

Their assumption: professors will NOT take Greek students seriously. Even if you are in your upper-division classes, they will assume you will try to slide by, ask stupid questions, and be a nussiance to the class.

In my experience, many of my professors didn't know how to react to someone who is smart and greek (all of us!)... let alone a female in engineering My thought was always that it would be very positive to see a Greek student with letters it difficult classes.