from the author of Pledged

[ISUKappa]

Trollabulous? Trollerful?

[texas*princess]

Originally posted by 33girl
That last post was trollerific. Trolltacular even!

Who is it that does the GC Quote of the Week? I nominate this for that honor!

Well said 33!

[Jill1228]

Oh TrollQuan or is it TrollQuisha is at it again?

Where is that troll photo when we need it?

Originally posted by texas*princess
Who is it that does the GC Quote of the Week? I nominate this for that honor!

Well said 33!

t*p,

I want you to read it, because i got the sneaking suspicion that she was at UNT.

She mentions that she's at a large state school, where Greek life is big, but not essential. A lot of her interviews are with a woman named "Brooke" who's an alum of a school in Texas. She makes a comment that STate U isn't in the Deep South. During the rush part, she mentions how one sister remarked, "We should take her, she's from Highland Park"

I don't think it's A&M, cuz she mentions homecoming, and we don't do that, and i don't think its t.u. because there's no mention of OU-tu weekend, etc. I think she did it at TTU or North Texas.

Kitso
KS 361

[BSUPhiSig'92]

I saw the book at my local Barnes & Noble over the weekend. Debated buying it, but decided against it. I did stand there and read the recommendations she puts forward for "reforms" to sororities at the end of the book. Some of the examples she cites as "better" ways demonstrate to me she hasn't researched the big picture. It also was very clear that she didn't interview many Greek Advisers for their perspectives on the issue. Finally, Alexandra Robbins is best known for her "expose" on Skull and Bones at Yale. She seems to like to write about subjects that are going to be at best difficult, if not impossible to confirm the accuracy of her stories.

[texas*princess]

kitso,
that def. peaks my interest... although I don't have the time or money to invest in that right now.

hmmm

[DWAlphaGam]

If you're going to buy it, at least return it to the bookstore when you're finished with it and get your money back.

[lyrica9]

Originally posted by AggieSigmaNu361
t*p,

I want you to read it, because i got the sneaking suspicion that she was at UNT.

She mentions that she's at a large state school, where Greek life is big, but not essential. A lot of her interviews are with a woman named "Brooke" who's an alum of a school in Texas. She makes a comment that STate U isn't in the Deep South. During the rush part, she mentions how one sister remarked, "We should take her, she's from Highland Park"

I don't think it's A&M, cuz she mentions homecoming, and we don't do that, and i don't think its t.u. because there's no mention of OU-tu weekend, etc. I think she did it at TTU or North Texas.

Kitso
KS 361

cant have been here. she talks of a drug room and a "scholarship room", but the only sorority here that has a house yet is adpi, and i can personally vouch that we have neither.

of course now you've got me wondering what other places it could be, were it in texas. TCU? I think SMU is too greek oriented...
you're a bad influence!

[Glitter650]

Originally posted by mybmw
I say how can anyone disagree with the book or be negative about the autor without READING the book first. I know the cliff notes may not be in the scholarhsip room, but come on how can any intelligent dialog go on w/o actually experiencing the story.

And to those who refrain from comments because it should go through "headquartes" first--please be an independent woman and have your opinions heard.

Umm.. if you actually took the time to read a lot fo the thread... there are quite a few people here who have read the book. That is all you may now go back under your bridge.

[33girl]

Read over part of this again at lunch. This is the reference she's citing from Greek Chat.

Some more dumb things I picked up on though...she bemoans the fact that people at headquarters making policy don't need have degrees or even gone to college. She cites the national Panhel prez as her source. Of course the author has confused headquarters staff with national council which are two completely separate entities. Although it would be funny to make our whole national council move into a house together.

[AOII_LB93]

Originally posted by mybmw
I say how can anyone disagree with the book or be negative about the autor without READING the book first. I know the cliff notes may not be in the scholarhsip room, but come on how can any intelligent dialog go on w/o actually experiencing the story.

And to those who refrain from comments because it should go through "headquartes" first--please be an independent woman and have your opinions heard.

With a name like mybmw and posting like this you actually expect anyone here to take you seriously? Come on. I've read the book and it's a load of crap. If all sororities were really like that all over the country wouldn't they all have died out by now? I don't have to go through HQ to find the book assinine and less than well written.

Originally posted by lyrica9
cant have been here. she talks of a drug room and a "scholarship room", but the only sorority here that has a house yet is adpi, and i can personally vouch that we have neither.

of course now you've got me wondering what other places it could be, were it in texas. TCU? I think SMU is too greek oriented...
you're a bad influence!

Well, i don't think it's TCU or SMU, because it sounds like the school is a big public one.

Maybe Tech or Texas State nee SWT.

She does talk about bid day at SMU in the opening and closing chapters, but i don't think she would talk about SMU in a book where she went undercover at SMU, ya know?

You want another tantalizing fact? Her "characters" come from 2 sororities. Three are in "Alpha Rho" and one is in "Beta Pi" One time when they're pregaming she "quotes" one of the girls as saying, "he-he, we're alpha-holics." Ok, so that either confirms that a) the girls in Alpha Rho are in a sorority that really does have an A in their name. or if she made up the name of the org and there is no A in their name, that has to be a made up statement, which i think would kill the credibilty of the rest of it. So, if they ARE Alpha somethings somewhere, is Beta Pi really Pi Beta Phi?

Also, she says her Alpha's won homecoming last year. It wouldn't be too hard to check the homecoming results of the major universities in Texas to see if any Alpha chapters won.

ok, yeah, i understand that i'm getting a little caught up in all this, but leave me alone, i'm in SD ok?

Kitso
KS 361 times this book is just filling the void in my life left by the absence of Sorority Life

[AchtungBaby80]

As much as I hate for other people to get rich and not me, I will probably end up buying this book. It sounds like it's kind of funny, as in entertaining...of course, I might change my mind after I read it, but from the excerpt it sounds like it's nothing but a naive description of Greeks from the perspective of a non-Greek who's fascinated by what she doesn't really understand. That's cool. We all need a laugh every now and then!

[MysticCat]

Have the best of both worlds -- get it from the library. You get laughs without paying a cent.

[AOII_LB93]

Oh total comedy folks, did you know on her website you can schedule a lecture and have her come out and talk with you regarding sorority issues and her new book? Riiiight.