The issue with sisterhood at UVA
by: d
I do not quite understand the purpose of joining a sorority at UVA. With pledge classes of well over 40, it seems hard to know all of your pledge sisters well. Similarly, it seems to be impossible to know everyone in your sorority. You could have class with someone in your sorority and have no idea. New sorority members get laptop stickers, windbreakers, and waterbottles with their letters, but what do these letters mean when sisterhood is split between 100+ members? It seems ironic for sisters to adamantly claim their sorority is the best, when in reality, their sorority is a loosely-associated group of women united under Greek letters. What is the advantage of joining a sorority when your circle within the sorority is extremely limited in number. The size of UVA sororities appears to be a detriment to a tight-knit sisterhood.
I would criticize fraternities for similar reasons, but fraternities are generally tighter for several reasons. They are smaller in size, meaning pledge classes are closer, as well as the fraternity in general. "Time before initiation" also serves to bring pledge classes together.
#1by: Big Facts
Too many times I’ve heard a girl say “I’m pretty sure she’s in our new pc” or something along those lines. Their bid system is clearly broken if new members aren’t debated about enough for everyone to at least know who they are. Another pet peeve is when a girl asks if I know X person in my fraternity after telling them what I’m in. Obviously I know them, we’re a brotherhood not a club.
Comment#2by: anon
while i see your point because yes, there are certainly girls in my sorority, even PC, that i'm honestly not close with, you have to realize that you can still make those tight knit friendships and groups within the sorority. joining gave me an opportunity to meet these girls that i can call my best friends and even though it's impossible to make that close of a relationship with all of the girls, doesn't mean i can't still make them with those that i can, and still be friendly with other girls in my sorority too. also a lot of the time we try to find people in our sorority in our classes and that gives us a chance to get friendly with them too! it seems nice that fraternities get to know all their brothers but it's just not entirely possible for girls at uva (if there were more sororities things might be different)
#3by: Grumper nation
Yo I was spoking with my boy nelk and he said that some srorties here are just far too heavy handed with the razzle dazzle. Also don’t forget that tommy tune is a very good dancer, so that should probably be taken into consideration when weighing the pros and cons of sisterhood as well.
#5by: you didn't get a bid :'(
by: lol
They’re spitting facts and you’re mad about it, how about try to fix the problems with sororities instead of attacking those that point out the problems
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by: Ok
But it is up to sororities to decide how they bid new members, would it be impossible to have a simple voting process (that requires quorum) in order to extend a bid to a new member? If sisters had to openly discuss the pros and cons of each pnm then there would be a much better chance that everyone at least knows everyone else. A better step would be completely scrapping sororities’ current rush model and replacing it with the fraternity rush model, aka having actual conversations with everyone in the organization
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by: sort of
it’s not completely accurate that uva isc is the one forcing them to make PCs that big. its a national thing that most schools follow in rush and essentially quota for each new pc is determined by how many girls are left at the pref round divided by however many sororities. if we had more sororities quota would in theory be lower but bc some sororities don’t consistently make quota and are eligible to cob year round uva probably won’t bring new ones on until these are stable.
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by: sort of
and then guys rush might work better? but i feel like most girls would just try to target “upper tiers” and some sororities would struggle to keep up numbers. it might help if they had open events in the falls or something so they could actually get to know girls more
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by: @sort of
Your second post doesn’t make any sense, frats also have tiers just like srats do, do a lot of guys target high tier frats... obviously that’s why they’re high tier frats, but low tier frats always end up with members at the end, I think that we can trust women to make their own decisions about what srats they’re interested in.
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by: sort of
frats do have tiers too but the thing is uva doesn’t have a high placement rate not bc girls get released but because so many drop out when they get dropped from higher tiers who are forced to make bigger cuts. so based off this behavior I think upper tiers would get way more women and others would struggle with membership but you could be totally right too it’s really just speculation!
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