Bashed by the school newspaper - Page 2

ASTalumna06 · #1 10-16-2009, 12:44 PM

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Originally Posted by missthing

So, if you take the 98 women who CHOSE to drop out from the numbers, you have 227 of the remaining 242 women receiving votes, about 94%. I notice they didn't use THAT stat anywhere though....

Exactly what I was going to say.

Gusteau · #2 10-16-2009, 11:11 AM

You're right Zillini. I can't tell you how many times I've heard the phrase, "It's just a vote to bid, we don't have to initiate him." Its not uncommon on my campus for chapters to initiate only seventy-five or even fifty percent of their original pledge class.

kddani · #3 10-16-2009, 12:13 PM

Grrr.... dear author of the news story. It is Kappa Delta - with an "a" NOT "Kappa Delt". Not sure if that's what they've begun to be referred to on that campus (not really a common nickname overall), but even if it were, it's not really appropriate to use throughout a news article.

DrPhil · #4 10-16-2009, 12:57 PM

So nice she told us twice!

Senusret I · #5 10-16-2009, 01:00 PM

Because I am Senusret I!

HOLLLAAAA!!!!

agzg · #6 10-16-2009, 01:00 PM

I think there's something buggy going on today - I've been noticing a lot of double posts.

DartmouthPanhel · #7 10-16-2009, 02:36 PM

I (obviously) agree with all of you. And, the 94% would be even more impressive if we looked at the percentage of girls who received bids after they went to pref night and maximized their options. Than number would be 100%

I guess it just bugs me because it seems like all of campus gets an board. No one ever asks about fraternity bid percentages. I know at least 1 house where over 100 guys come, 70 "Shake out" saying frat X is their first choice, and the brotherhood only gives like 30 bids. At least in the Panhellenic system, those other 70 guys would be given a chance for a bid at another fraternity.

The sad thing is that there are sorority women on the opinion staff who would have contributed to that article. It seems we've become a scapegoat.

It does worry me that our acceptance rate has decline over the years. Part of the reason we went through expansion was to ameliorate this problem, but instead the numbers continued to fall.

33girl · #8 10-16-2009, 03:43 PM

DGTITY????

It kills me how at the big southern schools, you can hear things like "3000 girls started rush and only 750 got bids!!" bandied about like it's a badge of honor, and here the exact opposite - every single girl who thought about rush didn't get a bid, so Panhel and its system should be burned on a pyre.

Not to mention that they should have figured that numbers would go down, as many of the women who would go through rush already are in the colony. Doesn't that usually happen everywhere?

DP - is the Dartmouth Review still in existence? Aren't they a little more intelligent about this sort of thing?

Do the locals try to hit quota/total as well or do they not really give a shit if they don't hit it?

violetpretty · #9 10-16-2009, 04:50 PM

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Originally Posted by 33girl

DGTITY????

I was wondering where she was. She'll be all over this one.

KSUViolet06 · #10 10-16-2009, 05:00 PM

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Originally Posted by violetpretty

I was wondering where she was. She'll be all over this one.

My memory is bad today, who is that?

exlurker · #11 10-16-2009, 05:41 PM

[QUOTE=DartmouthPanhel;1858216] . . . .
I guess it just bugs me because it seems like all of campus gets an board. No one ever asks about fraternity bid percentages. I know at least 1 house where over 100 guys come, 70 "Shake out" saying frat X is their first choice, and the brotherhood only gives like 30 bids. At least in the Panhellenic system, those other 70 guys would be given a chance for a bid at another fraternity.
. . . QUOTE]

A few days ago the campus paper did publish semi-complete numbers for fraternity rush / recruitment:

http://thedartmouth.com/2009/10/13/news/rush

But what DartmouthPanhel said seems to ring true -- the paper complains like crazy about Panhellenic recrutiment, but not fraternity recruitment.

Psi U MC Vito · #12 10-16-2009, 05:01 PM

DGTess would be my guess.

KSUViolet06 · #13 10-16-2009, 05:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Psi U MC Vito

DGTess would be my guess.

Oh of course.

Miss "I hate quota/total/formal recruitment and think it should be abolished because it didn't exist when I was in school back in like 1874."

als463 · #14 10-16-2009, 05:22 PM

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Originally Posted by KSUViolet06

Oh of course.

Miss "I hate quota/total/formal recruitment and think it should be abolished because it didn't exist when I was in school back in like 1874."

Hahahahaha...Oh wow....I love reading your posts (aside from the bright color that hurts my eyes but at least it distinguishes what posts are yours) because you always say what you are thinking. I didn't realize tha DGTess felt that way but I guess that shows how little I really pay attention to that stuff.

I think quota and formal recruitment is important because if we didn't have it-it would take away the whole "selectivity" of the system. I don't believe in a caste system where we should feel superior to other orgs because I believe in Greek unity but I think it is good to be selective. Think about it-we are selective about who we choose to spend our time with (friends) so why do people have an issue when we choose to be the same way in regards to Greek life?

epchick · #15 10-16-2009, 07:02 PM

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Originally Posted by KSUViolet06

Oh of course.

Miss "I hate quota/total/formal recruitment and think it should be abolished because it didn't exist when I was in school back in like 1874."

Wasn't she the one that supported that chick who blogged about Sorority Recruitment (or something about sorority recruitment) like a year or so ago? Like she was the only one who actually left comments on the blog and added more to the already inane posts that person made?

Or am I thinking of someone else?