Mizzou Greek Life Proposals

[33girl]

Once again, this sounds like a case of young people with way too much money at their disposal. Hard alcohol openly served at parties? Weekend formals in CHICAGO? These kids are going to get a surprise when they go apartment hunting after graduation.

Here's an idea. Cut dues in half, learn to drink shitty beer, and have your formal at the Columbia Holiday Inn. I guarantee that this strategy will be a better idea than the one proposed.

[DeltaBetaBaby]

Originally Posted by 33girl

Once again, this sounds like a case of young people with way too much money at their disposal. Hard alcohol openly served at parties? Weekend formals in CHICAGO? These kids are going to get a surprise when they go apartment hunting after graduation.

When I was an undergrad, many of the fraternities who didn't get a lot of social events with sororities would instead blow their money on a huge formal as a way of having something cool to point to when they were trying to competitively rush with fraternities who had 4-5 exchanges per semester. At the time, there were something like 50 IFC fraternities and 20 NPC sororities, so a fair number of groups fell into this boat.

[33girl]

I know I'm comparing apples and oranges with the systems, but this is just odd to me. Formals and date parties (for both sexes) were always private affairs where you could celebrate with your brothers or sisters and carefully picked dates - not rush tools.

What I don't understand is why the smaller fraternities don't get together to have mixers with the appreciably bigger sororities. Everyone would benefit.

[TSteven]

Originally Posted by 33girl

I know I'm comparing apples and oranges with the systems, but this is just odd to me. Formals and date parties (for both sexes) were always private affairs where you could celebrate with your brothers or sisters and carefully picked dates - not rush tools.

Originally Posted by SoCalGirl

I would say that today everything is a rush tool. Everything shows up on social media during the year. If the chapter is smart they're managing that year round so it's a flattering light. Even if they go dark before rush starts the eager PNMs would have been following the accounts and already seen everything.

Originally Posted by 33girl

Well along those lines, I don't think that private functions like mixers, date parties and formals have any place on social media where anyone in the world can see them. But of course, the idea of privacy in general seems to be something today's college students have long since jettisoned, so I'll just pack up my brontosaurus and move along.

My niece’s chapter has a long history (since the 1960s, if not before) of taking pictures of each class (senior, junior, sophomore, freshman) at “private” events. For example, the senior class at formal. The senior class at a mixer. The senior class before preference. The senior class at bid day etc. These would go into scrapbooks that anyone could view. Now with social media, many of these pictures are also posted on the chapter’s Facebook page – for example, “Pictures from 2015 Spring Formal”. The pictures posted are all “in good taste” – i.e. pictures you could show to your “uptight” grandmother at church. I believe that all the chapters at her school (sororities and fraternities) post pictures of “private” events on their Facebook pages. Again, these pictures are “in good taste”. Overall, I would say they are good PR tools for the chapters.

Of course, I joked with my niece that these “in good taste” pictures were taken early on in the night.