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08-23-2011, 09:55 PM
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Wow... that article is sad and pathetic.
In looking at the Alpha Phi OU website, they look to be a group of beautiful and diverse women... nothing suggests what this so-called "journalist" says about them.
Some people just never will understand sisterhood... and that makes me sad. 
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08-24-2011, 12:03 AM
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I think my favorite comment on the article was
Glad you got that off your chest. However, this is a sorry excuse for a column. If you call yourself a journalist why on earth did you feel the need to call out the sorority you chose to join. While writing about your experiences and shedding light on an issue you feel strongly about is one thing, calling out student organizations and therefore students so explicitly in the midst of that completely discredits your accountability as a writer. Food for thought next time you decide to publish a diary entry and call it "research. " Anyways.
Disaffiliation at SLU starts tomorrow, and pre-recruitment workshops start Sunday- never been more excited!
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08-24-2011, 12:16 AM
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Disaffiliation at SLU starts tomorrow, and pre-recruitment workshops start Sunday- never been more excited!
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Woot!
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08-23-2011, 04:34 PM
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it makes me wonder if she joined to further her jounalistic ambitions, sort of like the girl who, several years ago, went thru rush at (i believe) UT-Knoxville, just to write an article for the student paper.
naming names was inexcusable!
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08-23-2011, 05:26 PM
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That article is just vile, the girl is obviously very scorned.
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08-23-2011, 05:40 PM
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So her main gripe is they had to wear Spanx during rush?
She says nothing about what day to day life in the sorority was like. Ridiculous.
I can't wait till she quits a job because she had to wear a business suit to meet with a client.
ETA: I had to chuckle at the comment about her "whopping 376 friends" on facebook. Some of my friends prune their FB down to under 200 and STILL think that's too many. Generation gap! 
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08-23-2011, 11:35 PM
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Iowa recruitment starts this weekend. 716 PNMs
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08-24-2011, 02:33 AM
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Iowa recruitment starts this weekend. 716 PNMs
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So as I guessed, their comment about "record" was a little overblown, but that's a great number!
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08-24-2011, 09:39 AM
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So as I guessed, their comment about "record" was a little overblown, but that's a great number!
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What comments? I missed those. I thought this was a record PNM year? I know last year's COB was double
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08-24-2011, 10:49 AM
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So as I guessed, their comment about "record" was a little overblown, but that's a great number!
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What comments? I missed those. I thought this was a record PNM year? I know last year's COB was double
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I think the numbers were probably higher in the 80s and early 90s, before the University started having issues with Greek life. I'm sure this year is the highest number of PNMs they've seen in the last decade. They were only in the 500 to maybe 600 range the five years I advised in the 2000s.
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08-24-2011, 05:00 PM
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Iowa recruitment starts this weekend. 716 PNMs
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I hope that bodes well for all the houses! I know my daughter is ready to go!
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08-24-2011, 01:04 PM
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exactly. Sorry, you're supposed to know what I'm talking about without giving you any details! On the University of Iowa Sororities and Fraternities facebook page they made the mention of record registrations. Quotas were in the 40's and rushees were in the 700-900 range through the 1980's. For a variety of reasons (most of which I'm not privy to, but I have a few ideas) the Greek system at Iowa went into freefall for awhile. Then they started using RFM and it seems there was a whiplash that made it WORSE. But last year it seemed to work correctly. Iowa has even been doing a semi-structured informal for the last few (several?), and that would have been beyond bizarre when I was there.
I think the chapters would be happy with a real chapter total at 110 (where virtually all of the chapters are at total). When it was 120 they expanded twice within several years, but unfortunately neither made it in the long term. Plus, SDT left and AEPhi came in. I don't have any idea what that was about.
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08-24-2011, 05:06 PM
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Thanks hon! I'm pretty new to the Midwest. I was used to West Coast
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exactly. Sorry, you're supposed to know what I'm talking about without giving you any details! On the University of Iowa Sororities and Fraternities facebook page they made the mention of record registrations. Quotas were in the 40's and rushees were in the 700-900 range through the 1980's. For a variety of reasons (most of which I'm not privy to, but I have a few ideas) the Greek system at Iowa went into freefall for awhile. Then they started using RFM and it seems there was a whiplash that made it WORSE. But last year it seemed to work correctly. Iowa has even been doing a semi-structured informal for the last few (several?), and that would have been beyond bizarre when I was there.
I think the chapters would be happy with a real chapter total at 110 (where virtually all of the chapters are at total). When it was 120 they expanded twice within several years, but unfortunately neither made it in the long term. Plus, SDT left and AEPhi came in. I don't have any idea what that was about.
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08-24-2011, 04:18 PM
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Is it "air your disgruntlement with specific OU chapters" week in their paper?
http://oudaily.com/news/2011/aug/23/...p-self-apprec/
I wonder what the other side to the story is on this one- like why she didn't actually initiate at her first school?
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08-24-2011, 06:50 PM
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Many years ago, someone published an editorial like this in the Daily Illini. The Greeks subsequently put the DI out of business, forcing the University to step in and fund it. The OU Daily's editors would be wise to watch it.
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