University of Texas Recruitment August 21-28, 2012

[DubaiSis]

Unless shallow is something you aspire to... and for some people, it is. Actually, I'd bet those chapters must be doing a pretty good job of weeding out the girls who are in it for the wrong reasons.

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Originally Posted by DubaiSis

Unless shallow is something you aspire to... and for some people, it is. Actually, I'd bet those chapters must be doing a pretty good job of weeding out the girls who are in it for the wrong reasons.

Here is the problem. "Those chapters" do not do a good job of weeding out the girls who are in it for the wrong reasons because a great number of them started in their chapter for those same wrong reasons. This is exactly why this 30 year battle has been on going. It is so interesting to me, as many have said, that the article is not universally flattering. If you hold an actual copy the magazine in your hand, you will find out milk was 25 cents a gallon. Yet, people who continue to use it as a guide for UT recruitment don't see the irony in that. I think the fashion guide that accompanied that article did more harm than the actually article. It stressed the way girls dressed, the cars in the parking lots, etc. It made it completely materialistic. It pitted house against house with terms like "bless her heart...she never will be"...the death kiss of southern culture.

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One more thing....people wear rose colored glasses when looking at UT recruitment. They want things to be the same for sake of their snowflakes. (Don't you know Suzy Q is DESTINED to be a Texas ABC??) Yet the article tells us all that certain house are filled with the GPA leaders, etc. And today those chapters are sweeping the basement of the GPA rankings, but that of course can be overlooked because it is convenient to do so.

It is very disheartening to listen and observe on bid day. Mom's who daughter's did not hit the historical sorority lottery, spend the day following their daughter telling them everyone that did.."Suzy..can you believe it? Sarah Snowflake pledged Texas ABC..." As if to tell her that she is a major disappointment to her mother. Her mother needs to get over it. What her mom may not understand that 1. Suzy might be happy, 2. This may not have been Suzy's number one choice, but following her around on bid telling her who else did get that house is just mean 3. And as shocking as this might be to mom...maybe this is just a better fit for her daughter.

One can only hope that for a mom like this, her daughter ends up experiencing an incredible sisterhood that becomes the envy of her mother. Because if her mom was a Texas ABC for the wrong reason she more than likely did not get the opportunity to experience a true, life changing sisterhood. And that my friends, is the biggest tragedy of them all.