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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This thread had me go down the rabbit hole of uva sorority IG pages. I went there in the late 90s. The pics make it look like it was exactly the same as it was then. [b]Wasn’t my thing then and it really makes me wonder if it’s the place for DD. [/quote][/b]

Well, perhaps you can be a good parent, and tell your UVA student (like I did) about your concerns.  I was President of my sorority back in the day.  Huge. huge mistake. Both my kids know that.  My UVA kid never pledged and never, ever went into one of the houses, which is easy because they are not on campus and [b]only[/b] 30% participate.

Perhaps talk to your children and share your concerns instead of judging here.  Lots of great students go to UVA and never participate - it's not like the big Greek houses in the south.

Meanwhile, my kid graduated UVA with highest honors and is overseas getting a doctorate.  It can happen. Then law school.  Imagine that.[/quote]

There’s that adjective “only” again. 30% is a huge proportion. Your effort to be dismissive of its presence and influence is unconvincing… no, it’s not for everyone but the Greek system is omnipresent, influential, and mainstream. It’s probably the most popular activity on grounds — can you think of another activity that attracts 30% of the student population?[/quote]

The activity of avoiding frats attracts 74 percent of the student population. So there’s your answer.[/quote]

No, that’s it an answer. [b]It sounds like some desperate attempt by you to downplay the significance of the Greek presence[/b] on grounds. So you obviously care a whole lot about the Greek system — you have this fantasy that it’s insignificant when the opposite is demonstrably true.[/quote]

No one is downplaying anything.  You aren't aware there are schools like Wash & Lee which is 86 percent greek.  30 percent is small.  I don't even remember what my SLACs was but it was not a big deal on campus[/quote]

DP. 30 percent can feel pretty huge when you’re a first year trying to find where you fit in, and 6 out of 18 girls on your hall suddenly have brand new groups of friends and tons of social opportunities. It really can feel pretty devastating for some, not necessarily because they desperately want to be in a particular sorority, but because they want to find a crowd, or because it disrupts relationships they’ve already formed. I really feel for these kids having to go through this with social media now, too. [/quote]

Well they could’ve rushed and be at bid day today if they didn’t have some particular pre conceived notion of where they belonged.[/quote]

Maybe they were not familiar with greek life (I wasn't when I was a freshman). I didn't really know what it was. I also didn't think, once i found out, I could afford it. There are lots of reasons people may not have rushed beyond the "preconceived notion" of the poor, oppressed sororities. [/quote]

There was some very pointed bad mouthing of one sorority all week on social media. This is a healthy sorority that normally does fine, though they are “low tier”, they got three girls. They normally get a normal sized pledge class. So no I think it’s not innocent reasons, it’s badmouthing on social media which led to girls dropping rather than go to this house. Really awful, why anyone feels the need to put others down, especially those who are no threat to anyone, I have no idea.  [/quote]

Where are kids bad mouthing the houses?  My ask is not to read behind but curious were people posting and reading it if it really influenced girls.  I would not think people would want to put their name to speaking poorly of other houses?[/quote]

Yik Yak[/quote]

That is so mean. I don’t even know what yik yak is? So mean and sad they didn’t get more than 3 girls. Makes me sad. [/quote]

I thought Yik Yak died more than 5 years ago b/c no one used?  Guess not.[/quote]

It did shut down b/c of “rampant bullying” in 2017.  But it’s back.

Article from when relaunched in 2022:

“The Return of Yik Yak.  The social media app that shut down in 2017 amid rampant bullying is back on campus with new “community guardrails” in place to prevent harassment. But some students say that’s not enough…. Now a whole new generation of college students is discovering the app. Some have no idea of its past history of cyberbullying and threats….”

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2022/03/07/yik-yak-re-emerges-after-shutdown

From before shut down, Wash Post describes it as “cauldron of hate speech”
 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2015/05/07/some-virginia-students-school-officials-struggle-with-anonymous-bullying-and-hate-speech-on-yik-yak-app/[/quote]

Wow I had no idea, thanks for sharing. my DD told me this week, if YikYak had been a thing when she rushed in Jan 2022, she would’ve dropped from rush. Hateful hateful stuff being shared. [/quote]

Sounds an awful app from everything hearing/reading.[/quote]

+1
Which reinforces that the type of people sharing that information and making the hateful comments are the same people in Greek life.  No thanks.
DP[/quote]

You don’t know that, it’s open to everyone. [/quote]

Oh, come on.  People who aren't interested in Greek life are definitely not wasting time on some awful, catty, shallow website.  People who are obsessed with Greek life ARE.   :roll: [/quote]
Every kid at UVA is on yikyak. [/quote]

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