University of Mississippi - Ole Miss Panhellenic Sorority Recruitment 2013

[DubaiSis]

Oh, Old Row, we might be holier than thou NOW, but our parties were every bit as bad, stupid, dangerous, etc., as yours are now. Actually, I think generally kids are savvier about what's what than they were back in my day, the 80's. The problem for so many parents is, yes, I might have done several seriously stupid and health threatening things as a teenager, but my kids would NEVER do any of that. Sleep with a boy she doesn't know? Get so drunk she passes out in a fraternity house? My snowflake? NEVER! Which is to say the exact same thing our parents were saying 30 and 40 years ago.

[Titchou]

Originally Posted by DubaiSis

Oh, Old Row, we might be holier than thou NOW, but our parties were every bit as bad, stupid, dangerous, etc., as yours are now. Actually, I think generally kids are savvier about what's what than they were back in my day, the 80's. The problem for so many parents is, yes, I might have done several seriously stupid and health threatening things as a teenager, but my kids would NEVER do any of that. Sleep with a boy she doesn't know? Get so drunk she passes out in a fraternity house? My snowflake? NEVER! Which is to say the exact same thing our parents were saying 30 and 40 years ago.

Yeah but the guys didn't have roofies back then....I know what you're saying. I'm a 60's flower child and yes we did stuff our parents would have cringed at...and that was with a 21 year old drinking age, campus curfew, and very few people with cars or apartments. Certainly no women students had apartments. it wasn't allowed. But I can honestly tell you - it's different today. They all live with their boyfriends, have freerun of the place at 18 - or younger. Toto, we are not in Kansas any more.

[Sciencewoman]

Originally Posted by Titchou

Yeah but the guys didn't have roofies back then....I know what you're saying. I'm a 60's flower child and yes we did stuff our parents would have cringed at...and that was with a 21 year old drinking age, campus curfew, and very few people with cars or apartments. Certainly no women students had apartments. it wasn't allowed. But I can honestly tell you - it's different today. They all live with their boyfriends, have freerun of the place at 18 - or younger. Toto, we are not in Kansas any more.

They had roofies in the 80s. One of my sorority sisters was a victim...and the perpetrator was one of our fraternity busboys. She and her family didn't press charges, but he was persona non grata in the Greek community because the word got around.

[TriDeltaSallie]

Originally Posted by Titchou

But I can honestly tell you - it's different today. They all live with their boyfriends, have freerun of the place at 18 - or younger. Toto, we are not in Kansas any more.

It is completely different. And I only graduated in 1990. Seriously, people. This was not the norm even twenty years ago. I cannot think of one sister who acted like this in a chapter of 100 women. Did girls sleep with their boyfriends? Yes. Did girls sleep with guys they liked? Yes. But this is something completely different.

[Hearttoheart]

Does anyone know how party invites are handled at Ole Miss? Do they get slipped under their doors the night before, or do they pick them up minutes before they are expected to attend round 2 and/or pref?

How much time do the girls have to process their invite list prior to actually attending the parties? Seems to me that if they are having a less than perfect recruitment, they may need time to collect themselves before having to put on a pretty face.

Somebody told me they were slipped under their doors the night before, but that doesn't seem right...

[KKGAlumDGMom]

Originally Posted by DubaiSis

Oh, Old Row, we might be holier than thou NOW, but our parties were every bit as bad, stupid, dangerous, etc., as yours are now. Actually, I think generally kids are savvier about what's what than they were back in my day, the 80's. The problem for so many parents is, yes, I might have done several seriously stupid and health threatening things as a teenager, but my kids would NEVER do any of that. Sleep with a boy she doesn't know? Get so drunk she passes out in a fraternity house? My snowflake? NEVER! Which is to say the exact same thing our parents were saying 30 and 40 years ago.

I'm just thankful the legal drinking age was 18 in the state I went to college.