New movie-making fun of greeks??

[heyitszeta]

Originally Posted by 33girl

OK, now I'm really confused. Are you a girl or a guy?

Even if it is about your group, the addition of the turquoise color was something they did NOT need to do - as I stated, the other writer is from James Madison and would know damn well what Zeta Tau Alpha's colors are. So even if part of the story is about your sorority in particular, other things that were added to the movie are not a coincidence IMO, and were added specifically to discredit ZTA.

Sorry if that was confusing. We were a sorority from 1926 to 1982. We became a co-ed fraternity in 1982 to increase numbers, but we really never had any male members until late 2000s. I said that because the writer attended in the late 80s/early 90s, when we were all women and struggling to keep membership up. It shouldn't matter whether I'm a woman or a man since it's still my organization, but I am a woman. And my last post addresses everything else in your post, so I'm not going to repeat myself.

[33girl]

Originally Posted by heyitszeta

It shouldn't matter whether I'm a woman or a man since it's still my organization, but I am a woman.

It doesn't matter, I was just thinking of your other post where you asked about being more "traditional" and just from the way you were asking, I thought you were a guy saying "how do we get the 80 year old dudes to deal with the fact that we let girls in?" Plus, most coeds were all male groups first, rather than the other way around (just looking at the overall history).

[heyitszeta]

Originally Posted by 33girl

It doesn't matter, I was just thinking of your other post where you asked about being more "traditional" and just from the way you were asking, I thought you were a guy saying "how do we get the 80 year old dudes to deal with the fact that we let girls in?" Plus, most coeds were all male groups first, rather than the other way around (just looking at the overall history).

Oh, that actually wasn't me, it was our VP, but she's a girl too. She's actually how I found about this board, she was telling me about your suggestions for contacting alumni (thanks, btw!). And thanks for clearing that up, talking to people online without the tone of voice clarification can be trouble sometimes!

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by 33girl

Oh, and the other writer went to James Madison, so I would wager she is MORE than aware of national sororities and who has what color.

Originally Posted by 33girl

Even if it is about your group, the addition of the turquoise color was something they did NOT need to do - as I stated, the other writer is from James Madison and would know damn well what Zeta Tau Alpha's colors are.

Unless the writer who attended JMU was actually in an NPC sorority (do we know whether she was or not?) or otherwise had a reason to pay attention to which sororities favored which colors, I wouldn't assume that the mere fact she attended JMU (current Greek participation around 12%) means she is all that familiar with Zeta Tau Alpha's colors.

Originally Posted by MysticCat

Unless the writer who attended JMU was actually in an NPC sorority (do we know whether she was or not?) or otherwise had a reason to pay attention to which sororities favored which colors, I wouldn't assume that the mere fact she attended JMU (current Greek participation around 12%) means she is all that familiar with Zeta Tau Alpha's colors.

Karen Lutz (Legally Blonde screenplay author) is listed as a JMU Alpha Gam all over the internet, but she does not appear in the Directory or in the Accomplished Alpha Gams list.

Her MySpace also lists Alpha Gam: http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm...endid=86907977

[VandalSquirrel]

Originally Posted by OTW

Karen Lutz (Legally Blonde screenplay author) is listed as a JMU Alpha Gam all over the internet, but she does not appear in the Directory or in the Accomplished Alpha Gams list.

Her MySpace also lists Alpha Gam: http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm...endid=86907977

If she is 39, she was born in approx. 1969, which means she was 15 if she joined Alpha Gam at JMU in 1984. That makes no sense mathematically, unless she managed to graduate from college at 19.

Maybe it isn't her real name and that's why you can't find her in the directory...? It is one thing if other people are claiming her to be our sister, but she's claiming it herself (if that is her alleged MySpace profile).

Originally Posted by VandalSquirrel

If she is 39, she was born in approx. 1969, which means she was 15 if she joined Alpha Gam at JMU in 1984. That makes no sense mathematically, unless she managed to graduate from college at 19.

Maybe it isn't her real name and that's why you can't find her in the directory...? It is one thing if other people are claiming her to be our sister, but she's claiming it herself (if that is her alleged MySpace profile).

In some places she's known as Karen McCullah Lutz. There's a Karen who pledged Gamma Mu in 1983, but only the first name matches up. The JMU.edu website lists Lutz' graduation year as 1988.

She could very well be lying about her age instead.

Maria posted an article in the AGD forum here when Legally Blonde came out: http://www.greekchat.com/gcforums/sh...ad.php?t=34753

I'm thinking she IS an Alpha Gam, but perhaps she doesn't appear anywhere because she's just not in good standing.

[nittanyalum]

Originally Posted by MysticCat

Unless the writer who attended JMU was actually in an NPC sorority (do we know whether she was or not?) or otherwise had a reason to pay attention to which sororities favored which colors, I wouldn't assume that the mere fact she attended JMU (current Greek participation around 12%) means she is all that familiar with Zeta Tau Alpha's colors.

Honestly, if you stop me on the street and ask me what other org's colors are, I'd probably draw a blank for most.

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by OTW

Karen Lutz (Legally Blonde screenplay author) is listed as a JMU Alpha Gam all over the internet, but she does not appear in the Directory or in the Accomplished Alpha Gams list.

Her MySpace also lists Alpha Gam: http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm...endid=86907977

Thanks. Interesting that she's so widely listed as an Alpha Gam, but she doesn't appear in the directory.

If she is indeed an Alpha Gam, then I would agree that (rather than having gone to JMU) would tend to support the idea that she might know or should know ZTA's colors.

But her tan scares me.

Originally Posted by nittanyalum

Honestly, if you stop me on the street and ask me what other org's colors are, I'd probably draw a blank for most.

You and my Kappa wife.