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thoughts on bid day changes

by: Curious

What was everyone's take on the changes in Bid Day specifically the time change and the barricades around the sorority dorms? Did the wrist band thing even work???

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#1  by: ummmm...   
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AWFUL making the girls wait that late in the day! Terrible not letting people come see their friends on Bid Day!!! Very anti-climatic which is all probably a Jill Moore ploy.

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by: Duh Aug 18, 2016 7:32:02 AM

Do you even know or did you ask why it was so late?
Maybe if you did you would realize that Greek life will never too events on the arena for athletic donors - football at that!

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#2  by: Change is good    
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Even though it was hot, the later time was actually nice. Loved the wristbands for crowd control. And it helps because some PNMs had no one there and others had entirely too many in past years. There were still ots of people there and it worked great.

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#3  by: Fantastic!   
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It made it feel more secure since there were so many people. Jill Moore and the Panhellenic made a wise decision as did the school in providing a more stable way of controlling so many. No one needs more than 2 people there anyway. Afterwards you can talk to the extras who showed up. Whoever is disagreeing must not realize how hard crowd control is and how dangerous it can become with so many!

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by: QuestionAug 15, 2016 8:23:52 PM

They seemed to successfully manage in all the years prior to this one. To imply that there's a fairness issue when it comes to some PNMs "not having anyone there to support". I guess you're going to need special rules for Parent Weekend when so many don't have either parent attend because of travel challenges. This is another example of political correctness run amuckā€¦.fueled by a "everyone gets a trophy" mentality. These ladies are adults and can handle it. And Auburn handles crowds much bigger than the size crowd that Bid Day typically generates. It was a bad decision and regretful for everyone who was looking forward to the day playing out as it had last year, the year before that, etc., etc.

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#4  by: Lame   
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really took away

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#5  by: Loved it    
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I thought it was much better than in years past. There were entirely too many people there last year. Hope we do this again next year.

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#6  by: Thinking...   
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probably the same person trying to find a problem with bid day. In this time, security is important. Yes, football games have more people but the bid day traffic is large also, so now that has to be taken into effect and they did a great job. To make it all fair, and yes it should be, two people per girl is good. True some had more people there, when I pledged I had 6 but in reality I would have been fine with just my parents or my mother and grandmother. With so many girls going through rush now it is hard for each one to have 10 people waiting to be with them. Good job in my opinion!

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by: Yes!!Aug 16, 2016 12:26:25 PM

Spot on. Totally agree. It was a great experience (other than being the hottest place on earth that day!)

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by: NightmareAug 16, 2016 6:10:35 PM

JILL MOORE AND HER STAFF HAVE AMPLE REASONS TO BE ASHAMED OF THE 2016 BID DAY RUSH EXPERIENCE THEY CRAFTED. IT WAS WRONG, REGRETFUL AND ROBBED THE CURRENT PNM'S OF THE ENERGY-FILLED, AWESOME AUBURN BID DAY EXPERIENCE THAT ALL PREVIOUS PNM'S HAD THE BENEFIT OF KNOWING! IT WOULD BE SO WRONG TO REPEAT THIS MISTAKE IN 2017.

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#7  by: One day   
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It's one day. One! Bama seems to adequately handle the herd of humans ( ton more than Auburn) on Bid Day. Auburn has handled it well historically. Bid class 2016 was robbed because of some small minds with a title and some authority. IT WOULD BE WRONG TO REPEAT THIS STANDARD FOR THE UPCOMING 2017 BID CLASS.

PS AUBURN DID A MASSIVELY SHI__Y JOB ON SORORITY MOVE-IN DAY AT THE VILLAGE.

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by: ?Aug 16, 2016 11:23:55 PM

what happened with move in? I'm in a house.

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#8  by: Good grief   
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It went fine! There seems to one person complaining since the timeline for the recent complaints are both within 5 minutes of each other. Auburn has to watch out for Auburn and not worry about what other schools are doing with security. I think it went great and I hope it stays in effect.

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#9  by: Loved it!!!!   
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Thought it went great! Yes, some girls had a lot of people there but I'm sure they all survived...after all, everyone knew ahead of time about the limitations of having only 2 per pledge. Why in the world would anyone need a whole bunch of people there with them at bid day in the first place? I am a third generation legacy and I had my mom and sister (my other sister and grandmother were fine with not getting a wrist band, my two aunts texted) and that was enough. I didn't have to have my whole family and grandparents, aunt and cousins there.

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by: SameAug 18, 2016 5:14:12 AM

My family was cool with the wristbands too. Thought the idea was great

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