I have time and time again been hearing students in my classes talk about how we can talk and talk, yet none of us are doing anything. At first, comments just annoyed me, but as time passes, and I hear it repeated, I am left with a single question: Why is the quest for understanding and the spread of information through discussion, in order to discover how rhetoric (or any other subject matter) affects an issue such as humanitarian intervention not in itself an action toward solving the problems that have plagued humanitarianism for years? Read the rest of this entry »
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You would be surprised at how much shit I get from some of my closest friends about being in a sorority…actually, you probably wouldn’t. With all the portrayals we see in the media — “The House Bunny”, “Legally Blonde”, “Greek” — it’s no wonder we get such a bad rep. In reality, though, there is more to sorority life than drinking, having rampant sex with fraternity brothers and being ditsy empty-headed dolls. The hardest part of convincing people of that is when recruitment comes along, and all the Potential New Members (PNMs) and their families know about Greek life is what they have seen on TV, in a movie, or what they have heard from their friends at huge state schools.
If I only had a nickel for every time I have to tell someone: “At Oglethorpe, things are different.”
This past Friday was the second of two summer orientation events at Oglethorpe that we call Passport. The incoming freshmen come to campus, have tours, meet others from their class, ask questions, register for classes…all that fun stuff. As newspaper editor and an admissions volunteer, I was there walking around, meeting people and generally trying to give these scared new students a friendly face they would know in the fall. With no letters on, it had not even occurred to me that there there were people from other sororities scoping out the new class, and trying to make a good first impression for their sorority. From what I saw, however, they were doing a pretty bad job of it. Read the rest of this entry »