you say legacy like it's a bad thing
by: legacyI keep hearing how keeping and pledging legacies are the problem of having large chapters and bringing down the big houses. How actives are made to keep legacies.... I'm a legacy and I happen to love my legacy house for many reasons and not just because I have relative who was there before me. I hope that I get to stay and pledge my legacy house because I love them and they are a good fit for me and I hope they want me for the same reasons. Not all legacies want a charity bid...
Comment#4 by: Truth
Many people are jealous that they are not a legacy. Plain and simple. It is seen as an advantage and for years it held leverage. So now, in our my liberal days, girls have complained that legacies bring houses down because they can't get in a house due to all the legacies. Sure not all belong in houses but many many many do. These moms that were not Greek in college but want their daughter to be in a top
House start complaining about legacies. So what happens? The big houses feel guilty and start cutting great legacies who HAVE to pledge smaller houses. OBAMACARE rush!! Let's let everyone be equal even if they never worked hard to earn the reward! THERE IS NO LOYALTY anymore!
#6 by: Well
Money talks! That mom gives so much money to her old house. It's stupid to cut her and the funding. Also, many MANY legacies have super good resumes! Many have been bred to compete. They deserve a top house too. Do you have a damn problem with 200 pound girls? You need the resistive justice class.
by: WellOct 15, 2016 8:41:05 AM
by: Rushmaster5000Oct 15, 2016 3:16:46 PM
having a mom who still wishes she was back in college getting ran train on by the old row is not "being bred to compete". Many legacies are far inferior because they come into rush complacent and don't work nearly as hard on their appearance, involvement, or academics in order to get into a good house. Legacy bidding is just welfare for kids whose parents pledged a house too stuck up to look at resumes and ability over family connections.
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by: SetiouslyOct 15, 2016 9:17:03 AM
#8 by: Second Look
Being a legacy only gets you a second look. If you are not a good fit then you'll get released from my house. Everyone we pledge we WANT - legacy status or not. If you happen to be a legacy well that's a bonus and NOT a prerequisite. No one want to give up alumnae money but we WON'T pledge you if we don't like you!
#10 by: Legacies
Legacies are, in theory, a special thing. If we can make the room for somebody to share a special bond of initiation with their mother, sister, or grandmother, we can't argue it's a bad thing.
At a big greek school NOT in the south, like USC or Indiana, this is also a very special thing because enough come through that a strong chapter can pledge most of the good legacies and still have many spots for their top girls.
At ours it is a different story. There are more legacies coming through recruitment than quota for some chapters.
And there are girls that WE, the active sisters, would like to share that special bond with. Our best friends, our cousins, the girls we've met at camp or through cheer. The moments you'd like to share would come at initiation. Our moments would be everyday life with our friends, both the day to day and the deeply special bonds of ritual. Not to mention the exceptional girls that come through that would add so much to the chapter but don't have the connections.
We are tired of alum pushing, sometimes viciously, girls through to pref that nobody in the chapter really likes or is impressed by, only so that somebody from the class of 1985 that we don’t even know can have that moment, at the expense of the girls we’ve grown up with that we are forced to release for Lucy Legacy.
We WANT legacies. But we also want to pledge who we want. The best balance would be 25% legacies, and 75% girls that we really want. CONTINUED...
by: LegaciesOct 15, 2016 2:50:22 PM
CONTINUED
So that means somebody must be released.
The problem is every alum assumes THEIR special legacy is the one for our class. In the 70s and 80s you got to CHOOSE your sisters. Let us choose ours. We’re the ones spending time with them.
I’ll want my daughter to be in a chapter that SHE picked, where the girls wanted her for her so she can create her own memories. The memories of the time as an active are what is important.
And don’t even get me started on the girls alum push viciously who aren’t even legacies!
We want you to have some degree of input. At some chapters, you are forcing us to cut girls that we have grown up with and love because your frenemy at the Rotary Club has a bland daughter with no involvement that wants to take advantage of you.
It’s like a wedding. We want your friends to be there, but not if they take up the space of the girls that we grew up with that we actually care about sharing our moments with. The second we can’t invite our friends to our own wedding in favor of your friends, it’s gone too far. Same thing here.
I’d like my daughter or granddaughter to pledge my house, but I won’t be an active then. I’d rather I get who I want now so I can actually, you know, experience sorority life with them than get my choices later. That’s why the system is broken.
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by: Just wow!Oct 15, 2016 9:09:18 AM
Wrong! Current members have the right to pledge the girls they want. Girls who fit well in the chapter NOW not 26-30 years ago! They have the right to pledge the best PNMs period (top grades, involvement, honors) whether they are a legacy or not! Tired of y'all thinking your daughters deserve to be in your house! Some do, some don't!
Damn!!. Obomacare Rush? What you are wanting is an entitlement!! Pot meet kettle!! Again, Houses have the right to pledge the best!! If your baby was the best she would not have been cut!!!
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