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07-26-2007, 12:10 AM
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So maybe a founder's great-granddaughter has the same name as your main character but doesn't want to rush because she's too emo for Greek Life, but encourages your main character to rush knowing the misrepresentation will help her? It practically writes itself.
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I think that is a good story line idea, but just like the rest of the posts in this thread, in real life this girl would eventually get caught!
I was going to respond to this comment in general, but since it deals with my GLO....
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My maiden name is Locke....I always wondered if I am related to Theta founder Betty Locke Hamilton, making me a Theta legacy. (I am pretty sure I am not!) But would anyone question?? (I hope so!)
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I think it would be cool if a girl would be related to a founder of a GLO in real life, but again, I would think and hope that this would be checked out. I don't think anybody with the last name of a founder of any of the NPC sororities could just walk in to recruitment and say, "Hey I am related to so and so, the founder of ABC". At least I hope not!
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07-26-2007, 01:46 AM
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I think that is a good story line idea, but just like the rest of the posts in this thread, in real life this girl would eventually get caught!
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And I'm sure in the book she would/will eventually get caught, thus creating a plot.
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07-26-2007, 02:26 AM
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Hi everyone,
I stumbled upon this site tonight and am hoping that you can help me. I am a young adult author and my new book is focusing on a geeky girl trying to infiltrate the most popular sorority on campus. She is going to fake being a legacy in order to get in. It seems that legacies are not as important as they used to be but it's fiction people and I had to get her in somehow!  I'm just wondering in the event that a legacy was invited to join a sorority what kind of proof would they have to give that they were related to the alumni? I hope you don't mind if I hang around if I have some questions. I'd be happy to put anyones name in my acknowledgment pages! Thanks again!
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You could just make it up. It is fiction!
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07-26-2007, 07:02 AM
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To the OP... have you ever written anything before? I ask simply because, based on my own experiences, it's much easier to write about something you know (or, like JKR, something you can make up entirely). Since sorority life already exists, you can't make up what it's like to be in the Greek world. So, for your story to have credibility with Greeks, it should correlate with what Greek life is actually like. If your target audience isn't Greek, then the readers would not likely know whether your legacy info is correct - they'll just take it on face value that you know what you're talking about.
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07-26-2007, 08:40 AM
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My maiden name is Locke....I always wondered if I am related to Theta founder Betty Locke Hamilton, making me a Theta legacy. (I am pretty sure I am not!) But would anyone question?? (I hope so!)
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Haha- even if you weren't a descendant of Bettie Locke, I would be so excited that you had the same name (during recruitment) that I would be practically star struck anyway. 
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07-26-2007, 08:47 AM
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OT - Have you seen the "Betty Locke is my homegirl" shirt???LOL
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07-26-2007, 09:40 AM
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OT - Have you seen the "Betty Locke is my homegirl" shirt???LOL
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slight hi-jack: in the Random Spurts thread on DST ave, we were JUST talking about "[insert founder's name] is my homeboy/girl" shirts.
(we were referring to this shirt, made for Nupes.)
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07-26-2007, 10:20 AM
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And I'm sure in the book she would/will eventually get caught, thus creating a plot.
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OMG, do you mean rising action, a climax, everything? 
OP: Why do you want to write a book about something you don't know about? Surely there are things you have more experience with that would make compelling literature.
All others: The Hazing Meri Sugarman series is a great example of an author writing about something she does not know. The main character gets into the most popular house on campus because she is a legacy and is brutally hazed. You can't know how many high schoolers have asked me about whether particular scenes from these novels really happened to me or other Greeks. At least with Epsilon Zeta, Jock Young really is Greek and knows what he's writing about... even if some of it seems crazy, you know there has to be some truth in it.
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07-26-2007, 10:30 AM
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You girls crack me up. I love when you go off on your tangents and just run with it.
You practically wrote the book for her in 2 pages of posts 
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07-26-2007, 10:40 AM
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How is a "geeky" girl (I'm taking that to mean "socially awkward") going to receive an invitation to sorority membership? The sororities interview prospective members to see if they will fit in with the general culture of that group.
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07-26-2007, 10:44 AM
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How is a "geeky" girl (I'm taking that to mean "socially awkward") going to receive an invitation to sorority membership? The sororities interview prospective members to see if they will fit in.
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Her name is Jenny Smith, and there are 5 other Jenny Smiths rushing. One is the state homecoming queen, a varsity cheerleader, blonde, petite, and has a twin that just joined at a private school not far away. They really want that Jenny Smith but they bid the Geek instead.
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07-26-2007, 10:45 AM
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Her name is Jenny Smith, and there are 5 other Jenny Smiths rushing. One is the state homecoming queen, a varsity cheerleader, blonde, petite, and has a twin that just joined at a private school not far away. They really want that Jenny Smith but they bid the Geek instead.
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Fab!
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07-26-2007, 10:52 AM
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Her name is Jenny Smith, and there are 5 other Jenny Smiths rushing. One is the state homecoming queen, a varsity cheerleader, blonde, petite, and has a twin that just joined at a private school not far away. They really want that Jenny Smith but they bid the Geek instead.
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Ohhh, I see what you did there....
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07-26-2007, 10:53 AM
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I have to admit that I have wondered about my daughters, who are Chi Omega and Pi Beta Phi legacies from their deceased grandmothers. I can easily provide the names and chapter information, but do I have to send a birth certificate and marriage licenses? Is it like joining the DAR??? |
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The Chi Omega, if she were alive today, would be 97! That is pretty amazing - it's what you get when you marry an older man who was a "whoopsie!" when his mother was 43! She was at Rhodes College back when it was Southwest(ern? I can't remember).
Actually, the Chi Omega daughter of my mother-in-law's (younger) Chi Omega buddy from the 70s onward is still in touch with us . . .so now that I think about it, that one is covered!
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Kappa Beta Chapter of Chi Omega is at Rhodes College (formerly Southwestern). A wonderful chapter.
Just FYI, the official Chi Omega legacy policy does not include grandmothers.
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07-26-2007, 11:00 AM
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No grandmother Chi-Os
REALLY? That's amazing to me. Well, one problem solved!
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