Indiana University Recruitment 2024

[PGD-GRAD]

Since we’re on IU Recruitment, I’m going to throw this in since it does touch on several bases. E. Jean Carroll, the noted journalist and author who’s now in the news over her lawsuits against Donald Trump, was not only a Pi Beta Phi at IU, but she was Miss Indiana University and an IU cheerleader, eventually winning the Miss Cheerleader USA award in the early/mid 1960’s.

I’m cheering her on to kick Trump’s ass!

[jolene]

And her story was copied from an episode of Law and Order: SVU.

[Sister Havana]

You did...and thanks to you, I bought a copy. : )

Based on the description of the dorm they stayed in, I'm almost positive that it's McNutt, where I lived freshman and sophomore year at IU.

[Cookiez17]

I do recall when Pledged came out people were speculating was school it was. I'm not sure but IU and SMU were the top contenders.

[Cheerio]

Originally Posted by Cookiez17

I do recall when Pledged came out people were speculating was school it was. I'm not sure but IU and SMU were the top contenders.

If memory serves, someone here on GreekChat read Pledged and thought it's unnamed school sounded like theirs, the University of Maryland.

That book always read like a mix of fiction and non-fiction, likely to keep people interested as it read like a written soap opera story.

[IndianaSigKap]

Originally Posted by Cookiez17

I do recall when Pledged came out people were speculating was school it was. I'm not sure but IU and SMU were the top contenders.

Robbins definitely wrote about IU. She was at the Journalism School several different times a year or so before the book was published sitting in on classes, talking to students. She used the guise of her being a journalist, she wanted to see what the school had to offer and wanted to "mentor" female journalists. At least one of the women "featured" in the book was a journalism major she "interviewed" for an "internship". This information was relayed to me by a person who was teaching there in the j-school at the time Robbins was finishing up the book and the person put two and two together after the book was published.

[*winter*]

Interesting!

I was reading another book:

https://uncpress.org/book/9781469672...ts-of-friends/

And in this one, the author just randomly mentions that Pledged is about SMU- as if everyone knows this. I found that to be rather strange, as I’ve never heard anyone come out and say the school she went “undercover” at had been outed. But it’s in there, like it’s a proven fact…

Otherwise, it’s a pretty decent book.