University of Texas Recruitment August 21-28, 2012

[DeltaBetaBaby]

Originally Posted by Ladybugmom

Congrtats to SDT for welcoming 63 new members yesterday! I really hope some of the girls here on GC that were released looked in to SDT. It sounds like they had a very sucessful recruitment!

Wow, that's awesome! Do you have a link?

[Ladybugmom]

Here is their facebook page..

https://www.facebook.com/SDTatTexas

[Just interested]

I am so happy for them. The girls look darling and very happy on their fb page.

[shirley1929]

/small hijack

Ok, I didn't want a to start a new thread for this, but I did see this link on Twitter. It's the UT Police Blotter. This guy's writing is remarkably deadpan and funny...

http://www.tmdailypost.com/article/c...horns-take-two

[carnation]

You could not PAY me enough to be a campus cop!

[DubaiSis]

Those are fantastic. The good news is the newspaper is able to detect good writing when they see it. Hopefully some of that rubs off on their staff reporters.

And by the way, when I was in school we had a cop speak at a chapter meeting. He told us if a sister is stopped by the cops for any reason, KEEP WALKING. DO NOT HELP. And those are words to live by.

[shirley1929]

My two current favorites are:

"After being stopped the non-UT subject attempted to make two telephone calls on a credit card. The subject dialed the number then placed the card to his ear. He was a bit taken aback when no one answered"

and

"discovered a UT student who was providing alcohol enriched compost to the local flora"

[pmdal]

Originally Posted by pinapple

If anyone knows any PNMs from UT, make sure their facebook accounts stay clean over the summer. Facebook has become a very prominent tool in recruitment for each chapter. The PMNs may think it gives them a bird's eye view into the workings of a sorority, but the truth is, it is a window into the PNM's world and sometimes that view can damage their recruitment before it even starts.

Also, have your PNMs stay off that "other" greek ranking website. The hatred and bile that is spilled over there has NO bearing to the actually workings of UT's UPC groups. I find it embarrassing beyond measure. The individual websites of each house is a much better look into each house. All you have to do is google ABC @ UT and most houses have a website and if they don't they are missing a key resource for their PNMs. Also a point of reminder...there are a multitude of strong houses at UT. Do not let your PNMs attach themselves to any one particular house. That will spell disaster at a school where legacies can out number a pledge class.

Good luck to all the ladies and yes, their moms, during this very stressful, yet rewarding week of recruitment! Only three more weeks....

Its been two months now since my daughter finished rush at UT. She is happily initiated into her sorority, but I must say that rush threw her a couple of hardballs.

She could be a poster child for "rush working out the right way"!!! But a quick story about the impact of social media on my daughter.......

She was happily attending parties to her favorite sororities during the philanthropy round of rush. Her two favorites seemed to single her out with council members, front and center seating, etc.....

We had family friends that were well connected in a couple of the sororites.... but as the philanthropy party days passed, I had an uncomfortable feeling - something didn't seem right..... she was oblivious, though......

I remember sitting down to lunch with a friend and getting a call from her - she was sobbing and distraught. She had been dropped by most of her favorites for skit. We talked and I reminded her what positive comments she had said about her remaining sororities. She collected herself and attended her parties....

She called me afterwards and felt good about her parties. We talked about what her options would be with her remaining sororities and she felt good about her options.......

That night I got a call from one of my contacts at one of the sororities that she had been dropped from after philanthropy (and one of her favorites all week). Seemed that she had been told that my daughter had posted some "questionable" items on twitter that weekend and that was the reason she was cut......

When I went to look at her twitter account, there were three girls with my daughter's name - all from TX.... My daughter's account had been locked down tight (I couldn't even see her tweets) and her last tweet was about 2 months before, but the one of the other girls with my daughter's name had indeed been tweeting all weekend - and most of it not acceptable..... Additionally, my daughter's picture was of her with her father from 8th grade and the other girl resembled my daughter - from what I could see from a 1" square picture....
..... so now I have a problem.... can I do anything, do I want to do anything? I called the Panhellenic office and was told to email the Head of Greek Life at UT, which I did and was told to tell my daughter to call her immediately - but skit round was passed and pref was in an hour...... she called me with her pref choices and she was very happy! Her best choice was still there and she had moved past all the drama from the day before. SO.....

I told the Greek Life person that my daughter was happy with her choice and we would move on. I finally told my daughter a few weeks ago and she was very calm and told me that things had worked out great for her. What a relief.....

I believe that all PNM's should add their facebook and twitter "names" to their resume's sent in during rush, so maybe this won't happen to any other girls.

[FSUZeta]

What a mature young lady you raised!! Thank goodness things worked out.

Hopefully the GL person sent a memo after recruitment to all the sororities reminding them that if they are going to use social media to research PNMs, they should make darn sure that they are certain the account belongs to the PNM they are researching.

[33girl]

Originally Posted by pmdal

I believe that all PNMs should add their facebook and twitter "names" to their resumes sent in during rush, so maybe this won't happen to any other girls.

If you have a common (or even quasi-common) name, this is a really good idea.

[GeorgiaGreek]

Originally Posted by 33girl

If you have a common (or even quasi-common) name, this is a really good idea.

I agree. My sorority has 2 girls in one pledge class with the same name, and I can see someone confusing them if they could only see a small picture.

I think Panhellenic also encourages PNMs to put their twitters and facebooks on private with only a profile picture (preferably a good one that shows what you look like) and basic info visible, so you're findable but not stalkable.

[DubaiSis]

But if your name is Brittany Jones (or whatever the uber-common name would be in your area), maybe the better choice is to have a carefully cleaned but fully available social media presence. If those in search had found more than one Brittany Jones, maybe they would have been more careful in their judgement. An available page that said "happy rush week everyone! I'm officially going quiet here until rush is over. Wish me luck!" and then actually not saying anything else might have made clear this girl wasn't the snotty one.

[AnchorAlumna]

Agree...I do check Facebook profiles, and it's very helpful to have a picture, high school, home town, to make sure I'm looking at the right person. Clean it up, make it nice. Of course we love it when a PNM's page is wide open, but I'm usually just looking for a picture.

[GeorgiaGreek]

I'm actually kind of surprised anyone would look for a twitter because 1. the picture is tiny, even with an open profile 2. there's no background info on the PNM unless you want to take time reading all of their tweets and 3. people use twitter as an outlet to complain. Not exclusively to do so, but most girls have tweets about how hard their day was, how stupid boys are, or how ridiculous something someone is wearing is, etc. Most people follow corporate accounts and friends because they don't care that much what random things acquaintances have to say.
Still, of course it would be good to make sure yours is clean, but I don't think they're a good tool for actives to use in their "investigations."

[pmdal]

I was surprised about the twitter investigation, honestly.... My daughter could hav been cut for another reason, but the information I received was so specific that I took it at face value......