University of Alabama Fall 2014 NPC Sorority Recruitment

[33girl]

Is there any truth to that "ninja" comment?

It shows something about the involvement level of the ex-member that she didn't know what was going on and who they had pledged.

[chi-o_cat]

Originally Posted by 33girl

Is there any truth to that "ninja" comment?

I'm not sure if that was supposed to be humor, or a sincere attempt at a cover story, but I Googled "sorority rush ninja", "Alabama COB ninja" and "sorority COB ninja" and found no references to recipients of snap bids/COBs (at Alabama or anywhere else) being called ninjas.

And I know this is the action of one individual (now ex-)member, but way to make your chapter, your school, your state and your fraternity all look bad in one SnapChat.


EDIT TO ADD: 33girl, just to clarify (and for anyone who didn't click through to the al.com article and scoll through the comments to know what I'm talking about in case it's not the same thing as 33girl...LOL), you're referring this this comment, right?:

john smith
When sororities do not issue enough bids to fill all of the freshman spots they issue what are called "snap bids", which are after-rush bids to fill the available spots in the freshman class. Chi Omega and several other sororities call the members who receive these bids "Ninjas". The accused girl here was trying to comment on the fact that they did not need to issue any snap-bids because they had enough freshman in their 2014 class, so she sent a message saying "No new Ninjas this year". However, her phone autocorrected to a racial slur (ending in -as, rather than -ers), an unfortunate occurrence particularly in the current climate there at UA. Case-in-point, why would she say "no new ______" if they indeed have 2? I feel sorry for this girl.

[LXA SE285]

Screenshot, courtesy of "that other site":

http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2wme4ih&s=8

[MaryPoppins]

Originally Posted by chi-o_cat

john smith
When sororities do not issue enough bids to fill all of the freshman spots they issue what are called "snap bids", which are after-rush bids to fill the available spots in the freshman class. Chi Omega and several other sororities call the members who receive these bids "Ninjas". The accused girl here was trying to comment on the fact that they did not need to issue any snap-bids because they had enough freshman in their 2014 class, so she sent a message saying "No new Ninjas this year". However, her phone autocorrected to a racial slur (ending in -as, rather than -ers), an unfortunate occurrence particularly in the current climate there at UA. Case-in-point, why would she say "no new ______" if they indeed have 2? I feel sorry for this girl.

My lawyer-fu says this is an attempt at saving face, possibly a cover story.

[LXA SE285]

Originally Posted by MaryPoppins

My lawyer-fu says this is an attempt at saving face, possibly a cover story.

Yup, and a lousy attempt at that -- if it really did auto-correct, wouldn't that mean the poster had used the word a lot previously on her device?

[DeltaBetaBaby]

Originally Posted by MaryPoppins

My lawyer-fu says this is an attempt at saving face, possibly a cover story.

Yeah, um, if your phone autocorrects to the n-word, you've taught your phone the n-word (and I don't give a shit if it ended in -as, it's still the n-word).

[33girl]

And while not nearly as offensive as this obviously, celebrating over nosnap bids is kind of dicky, too.