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NewAgeMustange · Post by **NewAgeMustange** » Mon Dec 01, 2014 11:02 am

http://www.smudailycampus.com/news/soro ... clusionary

I guess no one else was working over the holiday.

DanFreibergerForHeisman · Mon Dec 01, 2014 3:00 pm

I never knew...

Chnash318 · Post by **Chnash318** » Mon Dec 01, 2014 5:09 pm

Haha what an awful article. The guy needs to learn how to write.

BigT3x · Post by **BigT3x** » Mon Dec 01, 2014 6:28 pm

The entire greek thing is a ridiculous waste of time and money. I wish we could just get rid of it.

NewAgeMustange · Post by **NewAgeMustange** » Mon Dec 01, 2014 9:15 pm

I hear your opinion but I'll say that my best memories are associated with the Greek thing and not any events that smu threw. And it's not only parties that I associate those memories with. Everyone develops a cliche that they hang with. It's the same thing just larger and with money involved.

SMU2007 · Post by **SMU2007** » Mon Dec 01, 2014 10:40 pm

Wow that article is just plain embarrassing. How could anyone possibly put their name on that kind of "writing"?

SMU2007 · Post by **SMU2007** » Mon Dec 01, 2014 10:42 pm

But it did have this Pulitzer Prize worthy gem;

"I knew a girl that was a Delta Gamma at SMU but transferred to USC to be a DG because it’s the top house," she said.

But at SMU, Delta Gamma is not considered a top tier sorority chapter. The top tier sororities at SMU are Theta, Kappa and Pi Phi, according to my classmate.

CalallenStang · Post by **CalallenStang** » Tue Dec 02, 2014 12:18 am

My colleague in the Division of Journalism, who asked not to be named, is 20 and from west Los Angeles. She has been through recruitment twice - and dropped out both times. She doesn’t want to speak on the record for fear of offending her friends who are in sororities.

Great job keeping anonymity for that person. There's got to be very few people on campus for whom the following is true:

20 years old
From West LA
journalism major
Dropped out of recruitment twice

smusic 00 · Post by **smusic 00** » Tue Dec 02, 2014 12:24 am

Guy sounds like he just wanted to see a panty drawer or something.

Digetydog · Post by **Digetydog** » Tue Dec 02, 2014 6:08 am

NewAgeMustange wrote:I hear your opinion but I'll say that my best memories are associated with the Greek thing and not any events that smu threw. And it's not only parties that I associate those memories with. Everyone develops a cliche that they hang with. It's the same thing just larger and with money involved.

Same thing for me.

Saturday, I'll be going to a SMU game with 2 of my brothers. 20 years later, we are still friends.

MiracleOnMockingbird · Tue Dec 02, 2014 8:33 am

A woman who transfers schools just because she doesn't get into her sorority of choice needs to re-examine her priorities in life.

Chnash318 · Post by **Chnash318** » Wed Dec 03, 2014 10:03 am

MiracleOnMockingbird wrote:A woman who transfers schools just because she doesn't get into her sorority of choice needs to re-examine her priorities in life.

Or just lose some weight so she can get in to the sorority....

just kidding...

Pony ^ · Post by **Pony ^** » Wed Dec 03, 2014 5:24 pm

BigT3x wrote:The entire greek thing is a ridiculous waste of time and money. I wish we could just get rid of it.

90% of the buildings/donations on the SMU campus were donated by former greek members. Good luck.

BigT3x · Post by **BigT3x** » Wed Dec 03, 2014 7:48 pm

Pony ^ wrote:
BigT3x wrote:The entire greek thing is a ridiculous waste of time and money. I wish we could just get rid of it.
90% of the buildings/donations on the SMU campus were donated by former greek members. Good luck.

You mean to tell me that people with family money are the ones who choose to spend thousands as an undergrad on buying friends?

Wow!

couch 'em · Post by **couch 'em** » Wed Dec 03, 2014 8:10 pm

BigT3x wrote:
Pony ^ wrote:
BigT3x wrote:The entire greek thing is a ridiculous waste of time and money. I wish we could just get rid of it.
90% of the buildings/donations on the SMU campus were donated by former greek members. Good luck.
You mean to tell me that people with family money are the ones who choose to spend thousands as an undergrad on buying friends?

Wow!

That's essentially what joining a professional organization for networking purposes is. Wish I understood that when I was at SMU.