UT spirit groups, take 2

carnation · #1 08-02-2011, 03:09 PM

Because 33 tried to get it back on track and some people went right on fighting. I honestly want to know more about the spirit groups!

AZTheta · #2 08-02-2011, 03:20 PM

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Originally Posted by carnation

Because 33 tried to get it back on track and some people went right on fighting. I honestly want to know more about the spirit groups!

All right, the scientific approach:

spirit groups =/= GLOs.

Question: Why are we discussing spirit groups in a forum for GLOs? I cannot connect the dots. To me, it's like this: I'm in Mortar Board and I'm also a Kappa Alpha Theta. So what? They are independent organizations. I don't see that discussing recruitment and membership practices for non-GLOs fits here. I am willing to hear the rationale as to why it does, however.

Carnation, maybe you can reach out to someone who's actually IN a spirit group (or more than one person? more than one group?) to get your information. What you're getting here on GC is not coming from an actual participant of said group(s), so I question the validity and reliability of the data.

That's what I see. As for getting things on track, you can't unring the bell, Carnation. It's deafening.

carnation · #3 08-02-2011, 03:28 PM

I know! But the first thread was full of all kinds of interesting things on the spirit groups and then it went down the toilet!

As a native Texan who left the state to go to college, I've always wondered about those groups!

33girl · #4 08-02-2011, 04:20 PM

Perhaps the caca can be edited out of the first thread and it can be reopened.

Wary, it's considered extremely bad form to create a second thread on a topic when a moderator has closed it. The moderator may be simply taking the thread off the public board for cleanup and it'll be viewable to all once he/she is done doing so. Creating a second thread (without giving the mod some time) can make more work for the moderator.

The thing that you said that people disliked the most was talking about reputations. We don't do that on here about sororities, and it isn't cool for sorority-like groups either.

We've talked on here about the social clubs at MUW so I don't think we can say "don't talk about things that aren't sororities."

And yes, housing or lack thereof has ZERO to do with the closeness of a group.