Top Greek Schools

[AlphaFrog]

Originally Posted by HawaiiTKE

Wow. GIve me a damn break. You guys are anal as fukk. Its a damn website. Get off your high horse. No one stole anything. I simply forgot to put it. So shut up already. It's over.

Wow...way to endear yourself as a new member here.

It may be "just a website", but just as Facebook is "just a website", things you do and say here can creep into your "real life". Many of us have made real life friends (and enemies) here.

[28StGreek]

First, AlphaFrog is right, and everyone else you have accused of being 'anal'. You HawaiiTKE are being quite rude.

Now back to that list...

Originally Posted by ElieM

plus this is posted as the "Top greek schools" - so I wanted know in whose opinion these ranking were devised.

And it turns out that the article is actually 10 schools with the BIGGEST greek life.

Actually, I don't even think the list works if the sole criteria was Biggest (I assume you mean largest membership number). While its nice to see USC on this list I am pretty sure that Texas, Mizzou, UVA and even Michigan have much larger Greek populations than we do.

I would also be surprised if SMU has more Greeks than we do, let alone be large enough to be the sole representative from the state of Texas. Just on the basis that they are such a small school. And if the criteria was highest Greek percentage of the student body, there would be a whole lot more smaller schools than the big State universities on it. And I don't think it could be the number of Chapters either.

The creator must either have not had a strict criteria; not have done any proper research; or just plain did not care.

[als463]

HawaiiTKE, though I appreciate you posting this list and wanting to get actively involved on this site, you might want to calm down a little because you may have pissed off a few people. It appears that you have posted TONS of stuff on this site already. While it's great to have someone so enthusiastic about Greek life (and TKE), just absorb some of the stuff on here for a little. I'm not trying to be hateful. It's just something to think about.

As far as the list goes, I really wish that if you are going to talk about Greek Life at Penn State they would take the time to mention Penn State's IFC/Panhellenic Dance Marathon--The LARGEST student-run philanthropy in the world. This year, the Greeks raised over $9.5 MILLION dollars in ONE year. That's something that makes me proud to be a Penn State Greek-not because of what this listing said.

[BluPhire]

I won't go as a far as to scream plagarism, that is a little extreme.

Yet I still say though if you are going to "write" something like this, you need to state whether this is your opinion based on your experiences or whether this is an article that you posted and show us the link so we can figure out the intent behind it.

Otherwise it just makes you look like you are talking out your butt.

[knight_shadow]

People are raising a fuss because one of the term and conditions for this site deals with posting articles.

If you post something that you didn't write, you can only post a snippet and must provide a link to the full article.

[angels&angles]

Y'know, I get a little annoyed when W&L is on the "biggest/best Greek Life" lists... and then I get a little annoyed when it's not, too. Weird.

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by HawaiiTKE

ElieM and that Barbie girl have some serious issues. It's really not that serious. We're on a blog. I'm not being graded for this. Get over it. These are the rankings for the schools with the most thriving greek life thus implying the "TOP" schools for greeks.

You know, given the tone of most of your posts here, I don't think you're in much of a position to lecture others. You sound like a whiney kid on the playground.

Take a look at the page you copied the information from. Now, scroll down to the bottom . . . the very bottom. There, in the right-hand corner, you'll see this: "© 2011 OnlineUniversities.com"

Aside from the legalty of simply copying and pasting copyrighted material without giving any credit, posting large chunks of copyrighted material is a violation of the Terms of Service of this site, as is posting copyrighted material without giving credit. See here, where you'll read:

Do not post any copyrighted material unless the copyright is owned by you or you have permission from the copyright owner. This has been part of the site rules since these forums were started.

If you are posting a news article it is fine to post an excerpt/summary along with a link to the full article on the news publication's website.

Meanwhile, lists like this are pretty worthless.

[33girl]

Originally Posted by HawaiiTKE

ElieM and that Barbie girl have some serious issues. It's really not that serious. We're on a blog. I'm not being graded for this. Get over it. These are the rankings for the schools with the most thriving greek life thus implying the "TOP" schools for greeks.

No, we're not on a blog. This is a message board. Do you honestly not understand the difference?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message_board

[DubaiSis]

Giving him the benefit of the doubt of a guy who made a mistake in not giving his source and too childish to man up when it was pointed out, I will give a piece of advice about how to not do this again.

Here's an interesting article linklinklinklink.

Excerpt. Or here's the article in full:

Full article

[Barbie's_Rush]

Originally Posted by HawaiiTKE

ElieM and that Barbie girl have some serious issues. It's really not that serious. We're on a blog. I'm not being graded for this. Get over it. These are the rankings for the schools with the most thriving greek life thus implying the "TOP" schools for greeks.

At least we know the difference between a blog and a message board. And we're not TKEs.

[Barbie's_Rush]

Originally Posted by MysticCat

Aside from the legalty of simply copying and pasting copyrighted material without giving any credit, posting large chunks of copyrighted material is a violation of the Terms of Service of this site, as is posting copyrighted material without giving credit. See here, where you'll read:Meanwhile, lists like this are pretty worthless.

Thank you, MC. I was trying to find that last night but GC is so difficult to navigate on my phone. I knew that was here somewhere!

[lucgreek]

Originally Posted by Barbie's_Rush

And we're not TKEs.

Getting a dig in at the national organization over one misguided person?

[knight_shadow]

Originally Posted by lucgreek

Getting a dig in at the national organization over one misguided person?

Not surprising, coming from that poster.

[Barbie's_Rush]

Originally Posted by lucgreek

Getting a dig in at the national organization over one misguided person?

Originally Posted by knight_shadow

Not surprising, coming from that poster.

Go see his other post making light of child abuse. It seems appropriate given that post coupled with his obsession with rankings on this thread.

[knight_shadow]

Originally Posted by Barbie's_Rush

Go see his other post making light of child abuse. It seems appropriate given that post coupled with his obsession with rankings on this thread.

Right. One post on a message board defines an entire fraternity.