Auburn Recruitment 2011 - 17 jewels!

[AuburnMom85]

Also, there is a facebook group called Auburn Panhellenic. You can view some pictures of all the PNM! (A and c are also in some of the pictures.... )

[AOII Angel]

LOL. I read AOIIs facts. Coke's colors are NOT red and white because the founder of Coke's wife was an AOII. The closest fact to this story is that the daughter of the first bottler of coke was an AOII. There is still no evidence to show that Coca-Cola chose red and white because of that. Heather Whitestone is not an AOII either. She pledged AOII but never initiated. I wonder if any alumnae checked this thing before it went to print?

[carnation]

Oh dear. A lot of the sororities' facts are wrong--their nationals would die.

[AZ-AlphaXi]

Originally Posted by carnation

Oh dear. A lot of the sororities' facts are wrong--their nationals would die.

Loved the pin left on the moon "fact"

[UGAalum94]

Originally Posted by AZ-AlphaXi

Loved the pin left on the moon "fact"

It starting out "upon death" made me laugh.

But generally, I was struck by the cuteness of the whole thing. Remember the sweet, naive anticipation of looking through your rush guide before you started?

[ComradesTrue]

Originally Posted by AOII Angel

LOL. I read AOIIs facts. Coke's colors are NOT red and white because the founder of Coke's wife was an AOII. The closest fact to this story is that the daughter of the first bottler of coke was an AOII. There is still no evidence to show that Coca-Cola chose red and white because of that. Heather Whitestone is not an AOII either. She pledged AOII but never initiated. I wonder if any alumnae checked this thing before it went to print?

Originally Posted by carnation

Oh dear. A lot of the sororities' facts are wrong--their nationals would die.

Funny! I was just going to look for the myths thread to post the link to this booklet. I can't believe how many groups have incorrect "Fun Facts." Maybe we should email our myth thread to the Greek LIfe office!

[FSUZeta]

mom, hopefully she will land in emerald. it is amazing how "emerald" can be a favorite one day, and cause all sorts of confusion the next and then diamond, pearl, jade or turquoise can take top billing.

if it doesn't work that she returns to emerald, she just needs to look at the sororities that did invite her back and pick a new favorite(wisdom of 33girl). they are all good groups at auburn and she really can't make a bad choice.

[KDMafia]

I look at that pamphlet and all of those amazingly beautiful and poised ladies and it just blows my mind that PNMs can not look and see just how every sorority has opportunity for them, let alone any of them being labeled as "superficially" lower tier.

Also, in keeping with the incorrect facts, I had always thought/been told that Vera Bradley was not a Kappa Delta although I believe one people involved with starting up the company is.

Originally Posted by KDMafia

I look at that pamphlet and all of those amazingly beautiful and poised ladies and it just blows my mind that PNMs can not look and see just how every sorority has opportunity for them, let alone any of them being labeled as "superficially" lower tier.

Also, in keeping with the incorrect facts, I had always thought/been told that Vera Bradley was not a Kappa Delta although I believe one people involved with starting up the company is.

The Co-Owner/President of Vera Bradley (Patricia Polito Miller) is a KD.

[katydidKD]

Originally Posted by KDMafia

I look at that pamphlet and all of those amazingly beautiful and poised ladies and it just blows my mind that PNMs can not look and see just how every sorority has opportunity for them, let alone any of them being labeled as "superficially" lower tier.

Also, in keeping with the incorrect facts, I had always thought/been told that Vera Bradley was not a Kappa Delta although I believe one people involved with starting up the company is.

Patricia Polito Miller, co-founder of Vera Bradley, is a Kappa Delta initiated at U of Indiana. I know this is 100% true :O)

ETA: Vera Bradley is not an actual woman. There were two founders, the other is Barbara Bradley Baekgaard

[AuburnMom85]

Whoops! Maybe I shouldn't have posted the link to that handbook. I didn't realize it had so many wrong "facts". I just enjoyed looking at the different pages, and thought the advice to the PNM was dead on. You can tell, though, that Auburn is full of beautiful and talented Greek women, and I'm so excited that my daughter will (hopefully) be a part of that.

[ComradesTrue]

Originally Posted by AuburnMom85

Whoops! Maybe I shouldn't have posted the link to that handbook. I didn't realize it had so many wrong "facts". I just enjoyed looking at the different pages, and thought the advice to the PNM was dead on. You can tell, though, that Auburn is full of beautiful and talented Greek women, and I'm so excited that my daughter will (hopefully) be a part of that.

No it was good to post. There IS a ton of very accurate and helpful information inside. It is just interesting that when clearly so much work went into creating such a booklet that they were so slack with checking facts. Overall the booklet is excellent.

[Leslie Anne]

Yikes! The booklet may have some good advice for PNMs but it's an absolute disaster when it comes to NPC facts as well as spelling and punctuation. It's really embarrassing.

[Mamaviolet]

Good to keep in mind how impressions of groups can change over the week. A friend's daughter went through last year, and first two rounds she had her heart set on a certain house. By third round she had completely changed her mind and ended up pledging somewhere else - now she can't recall what appealed to her so much about the group she liked at first. I can't imagine how girls can sort out and remember what they liked best each day.

[FSUZeta]

i would wager that the chapters designed their own pages and submitted their fun facts to panhellenic. i have seen too many fun facts on too many sorority websites to blame panhellenic.

but whoever didn't proof their facts, punctuation, and spelling-a pox on thee!