Holy isht! Done already. This really is like Sweet Valley High or First Love from Silhouette. Except their writing is better.
I do agree with 3 things she said: there's a chasm between the image nationals want and what the chapters want to be, rush should be deferred till second semester, and the saying everything is hazing fosters the in for a buck, in for a quarter mentality.
That was about ALL I agreed with. Her research is horrible - she doesn't realize that the people who work at HQs are NOT the national council/policy makers, she thinks D Phi E's mascot is a blue lion (LOL) and the most glaring, she assumed that sororities at a big school are how sororities operate everywhere. Her description of "Subrosa" meetings sounded like what I experienced - I'm betting other state school girls would agree. I mean, does she think all colleges are like Yale? I would hope not.
Her constant citing of
Ready for Rush and
Rush: A Girl's Guide etc is ridiculous. She presents these books as though they were official publications or endorsed by NPC.
She talks out of both sides of her mouth. The sorority sisters going to get piercings together obviously disgusts her - but the Zeta Delta Xis boinking on every available surface in the house is OK, because they're coed. She makes the rush/intake process for NPHC groups sound like a piece of cake, when we all know it's NOT. I'm sure at a lot of schools it's much harder than going through NPC rush. And can she kiss Melody Twilley's butt anymore? I think she's using her in the
"magical negro" context (thank you laidback fella for the link), which is just racism turned inside out. As for Twilley herself, her true colors (no pun) show when it's stated that if the Alabama Panhellenic doesn't vote the local multicultural sorority she founded into Panhellenic, she's considering suing.
The girls that she picked all have issues to begin with - Vicki faked her way through rush and doesn't want to be away from her hs friends, Sabrina is using the sorority for "white connections" and is more interested in cheap quarters and boinking her prof (and telling her mother!! grooooss), Caitlin has a psycho boyfriend and equally psycho controlling mama, and Amy's parents definitely should make sure she's in therapy as she's trying to get over her sister's death with male attention. I sincerely hope these 4 girls are fake, for their sakes LOL - and the intimacy of the dialogue leads me to believe they are. However they definitely showed that what you put in, you get out. Once Vicki starts being sociable and stops bitching about her situation, she has fun.
Robbins just seems to have issue with any sort of responsibility to or identification with something larger than yourself. I'm really glad I wasn't on her lacrosse team.
Ooh, and I almost forgot the best parts about MY sorority. She includes several quotes from "Laney" who was president of her chapter at her school in Nevada. Only one problem with that. We don't have a chapter in Nevada. We've NEVER had a chapter in Nevada. I don't think we've ever even had an alum chapter or colony there. LMDAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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