from the author of Pledged

[BGKdLady]

What I don't get is why on earth people would believe that thousands of intelligent women in this county would join sororities if these myths were true! True there might be girls that would join at any cost, but the vast majority of us would have had nothing to do with a sorority if there were things like she describes in her interview (MSNBC) (sorry haven't gotten a chance to read the book yet). We're just too smart for that!

[ISUKappa]

Originally posted by 33girl
I will never understand why some people get so upset about test files - it's not cheating, it's to help you know how the professor tests. If the professor uses the same test year after year, that's his dumb fault.

See, that just proves that we might actually be studying and care about our grades and that would blow the hell of ouf people's stereotypes that we're all dumb girls. Test/study files are a great resource; some professors give out old tests to study from, what's the difference?

[Lady Pi Phi]

If the professor is stupid enough to give the same etst year after year after year and not bother to collect the test papers then it's their own damn fault.

Like ISUKappa said, most professors aren't stupid enough to do that, and are more than happy to give out old tests to help students study from.

[ISUKappa]

from the interview on the website:

I was not dis_guised at the other schools I visited across the country so they might recognize me, but that’s fine because they don’t know who Vicki, Sabrina, Caitlin and Amy are. But I won’t look on television like I did when I was at State U., there’s no doubt about that.

She was disguised to the extent that the four girls she profiled wouldn't recognize her. Yeah, great ethics.

I guess you could say I did anything I needed to do to blend in as a typical college student. I guess I could say that much. They do throw good parties.

Nice.

[Lady Pi Phi]

I said it once before and I'll say it again...the lady is a crackpot!

She's the same woman who was on 60 minutes (if I am not mistaken) discussing secrte socities. Unfortunately she didn't provied the audience with any new information. Everything she said was stuff people already knew.
If you're going to be an investigative journalist, try investigating!

[Intense1920]

She's going to be on the Today Show in a few minutes.

[DeltAlum]

I think it might be educational for you to define "everybody."

Unfortunately, there are a huge number of people who know nothing about the Greek System or (other) secret societies who are likely to believe everything she says.

If you're talking about "everybody" on GC -- or in a fraternity or sorority, I'll buy your comment. Otherwise, no.

[Lady Pi Phi]

Originally posted by DeltAlum
I think it might be educational for you to define "everybody."

Unfortunately, there are a huge number of people who know nothing about the Greek System or (other) secret societies who are likely to believe everything she says.

If you're talking about "everybody" on GC -- or in a fraternity or sorority, I'll buy your comment. Otherwise, no.

If you're refering to me, I didn't say everybody...I said "People".

No, not "everybody" knows, but information was nothing new. There have been articles, shows, etc about secret societies before, and whether or not you are in one, if you had watch the television and read the paper or a book, then you would know that she didn't reveal anything secretive, or new about these societies.

[33girl]

DA, are you replying to Lady Pi Phi's comment that Robbins repeated everything known about secret societies? It's early and I am confused.

Valkyrie, I agree with you....if this was real life, it would be all over the internet that she was "undercover" at XYZ at Carnegie Mellon or whatever. Somebody at some point would say "holy isht, that's Muffy from XYZ!" That stuff just doesn't stay buried this well in this day & age. And I find it hard to believe that she could "disguise" herself so well that no one would recognize her, unless she had plastic surgery afterwards.

Why do I have the feeling this woman has a shrine to Janet Cooke in her bedroom?

[DeltAlum]

Originally posted by Lady Pi Phi
If you're refering to me, I didn't say everybody...I said "People".

Sorry, I did misquote.

However, my point remains. I think it's safe to say that MOST people know nothing about secret societies and will take this woman's comments as gospel. The Greek System is relatively small (single digit percentages) in a majority of colleges. If you look at some of the questions and comments even here on GC, you must realize that even Greeks themselves can be pretty uneducated on the system as a whole.

Sorry, the woman may well be a crackpot, but a lot of people are going to take her work at face value and believe every word of it.

[DWAlphaGam]

I'm wondering if anyone who isn't Greek (or doesn't want to be Greek), which really is a majority of people, would even care about this book or want to buy it. I have the feeling that way more sorority women than independents are buying it and reading it.


Also, I just half-watched her Today show interview, and she was saying something like, "one of the positive things about sororities is humor, because sororities are really funny." That comment alone makes me discount anything else she has to say.

[Lady Pi Phi]

Originally posted by DeltAlum
Sorry, I did misquote.

However, my point remains. I think it's safe to say that MOST people know nothing about secret societies and will take this woman's comments as gospel. The Greek System is relatively small (single digit percentages) in a majority of colleges. If you look at some of the questions and comments even here on GC, you must realize that even Greeks themselves can be pretty uneducated on the system as a whole.

Sorry, the woman may well be a crackpot, but a lot of people are going to take her work at face value and believe every word of it.

I think what I was trying to say, was all she said in her interview on 60 Minutes was that, there were secret societies at Ivy League schools..oky so...people know that. Influential people were/are members..okay cool, people aren't surprised.
My point is, she didn't really reveal any information that looked like she actually did any research.

[Taualumna]

Apologies if this has already been posted, but does anyone think that Ms. Robbins wrote this book to get back at people for not letting her in to whatever organization (whether a GLO or a "secret society") she really wanted to be in?

[33girl]

I would say that about the Skull and Bones book (she was in Scroll & Key which is guess is Avis to S & B's Hertz), but as for this one, I think she's just swallowed too much feminazi rhetoric.

[texas*princess]

I just saw her blurb on the Today Show.. and wow.. if she thinks she can pass for 19, she's got something else coming. Most 19 yr olds I know don't look that.. old. Not that she's 80 or anything, but she does not look 19.

Once again, nothing new... just saying the same stuff over and over. It was so hard trying not to "" the entire time..