I’m fascinated by this whole thing. I went to a medium sized nerd school that had greek life but they were heavily regulated (someone died of alcohol poisoning in an 80s frat rager on campus): no Greek housing allowed, rush was in the second semester and freshmen were heavily discourage from rush, so those that did usually did it second …
I’m fascinated by this whole thing. I went to a medium sized nerd school that had greek life but they were heavily regulated (someone died of alcohol poisoning in an 80s frat rager on campus): no Greek housing allowed, rush was in the second semester and freshmen were heavily discourage from rush, so those that did usually did it second semester of their sophomore year and the residential side of it wasn’t a factor. Most of the kids who did it were children of members. (One of my roommates rushed and didn’t have any Greek connections and we were all Very Concerned--she seemed to have a good experience, but that’s how unusual it was.)
Basically, it’s so interesting to me because it’s so far outside my own experience.
The thing that gets me the most is the woman who’s the rush consultant. Her aggressive “stay quiet, conform” message reminds me of the women who worked in HR at various employers who always carried that message. “Are you sure you want to file that workers comp claim? It will label you as a problem.” Not really different from “Don’t make rush about you, it’ll label you as attention seeking.”
I hope these girls have a great time in their sororities but I do worry about them and the pressure to conform, stay quiet, not rock the boat and how that’ll impact their futures.
I think she actually works in HR for her full time job so that totally tracks - and someone on Insta this week in the the stories I think mentioned the sorority to HR pipeline.
I’m fascinated by this whole thing. I went to a medium sized nerd school that had greek life but they were heavily regulated (someone died of alcohol poisoning in an 80s frat rager on campus): no Greek housing allowed, rush was in the second semester and freshmen were heavily discourage from rush, so those that did usually did it second semester of their sophomore year and the residential side of it wasn’t a factor. Most of the kids who did it were children of members. (One of my roommates rushed and didn’t have any Greek connections and we were all Very Concerned--she seemed to have a good experience, but that’s how unusual it was.)
Basically, it’s so interesting to me because it’s so far outside my own experience.
The thing that gets me the most is the woman who’s the rush consultant. Her aggressive “stay quiet, conform” message reminds me of the women who worked in HR at various employers who always carried that message. “Are you sure you want to file that workers comp claim? It will label you as a problem.” Not really different from “Don’t make rush about you, it’ll label you as attention seeking.”
I hope these girls have a great time in their sororities but I do worry about them and the pressure to conform, stay quiet, not rock the boat and how that’ll impact their futures.
I think she actually works in HR for her full time job so that totally tracks - and someone on Insta this week in the the stories I think mentioned the sorority to HR pipeline.
I thought I’d seen that but couldn’t find it again! It absolutely tracks.