A disconnect with legacies? - Page 4

BraveMaroon · #46 08-10-2011, 12:18 PM

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Originally Posted by HQWest

: ) nutter butters

See? Exactly! The point is, ALL cookies are delicious and wonderful and valuable. There's room in the cookie jar for all of us!

33girl · #47 08-10-2011, 12:42 PM

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Originally Posted by AUBoosMom

Question: because so many sororities at Auburn are in the same boat (with more legacies going through than they could possibly absorb), do these chapters drop PNMs because they assume they are want to pledge their legacy sororities? Or do they "get" the fact that many of the girls can't join those chapters because it's mathematically impossible?

I think a lot of them are thinking "OMG, we have to cut x number of girls 1) due to RFM 2) because we have a boatload of legacies we have to think about. Jackie is a legacy to another group? Great, we can cut her and not feel guilty because surely they'll take her." I think math kind of goes out the window at that point. (by "that point" I mean 1 am in the morning after a full day of parties)

p.s. your username is cute.

DubaiSis · #48 08-10-2011, 12:51 PM

I've written and deleted about a gazillion different posts, stating differing opinions. This is really one of those discussions where most of us could pick a side, EITHER side and fight for it. I think that in general it works the way it should. Chapters seem to give legacies extra attention, and appreciate them for the additional gift of family that they provide. Yes, bad stuff happens from time to time on either side of the argument, but I don't think that's too often.

But now I'm obsessed with what kind of cookie I am. I am certainly no mint milano, but I can't say I'm a nilla wafer either. I'm some kinda cookie that's got fruit and is nutty, but nothing fancy. Mix it together and drop by spoonsful onto the pan. Eat in small doses or I become too much.

NutBrnHair · #49 08-10-2011, 12:55 PM

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Originally Posted by BraveMaroon

They didn't do anything to make me feel that way, but I was a Nilla Wafer surrounded by Pepperidge Farm Milanos.

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Originally Posted by carnation

And they only think they're Milanos! Maybe they're just really...oatmeal cookies.

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Originally Posted by HQWest

: ) nutter butters

We had a legacy come through one year named Ginger Snapp. (I promise I'm not making that up.) We pledged her.

carnation · #50 08-10-2011, 01:00 PM

The KDs at State pledged one named Ida Cline! (She became Homecoming Queen.)

MysticCat · #51 08-10-2011, 01:35 PM

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Originally Posted by BraveMaroon

See? Exactly! The point is, ALL cookies are delicious and wonderful and valuable.

FSUZeta · #52 08-10-2011, 01:51 PM

okay, MC. you have proved that some cookies DO NOT belong in the same cookie jar-lol!

BraveMaroon · #53 08-10-2011, 01:58 PM

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Originally Posted by carnation

The KDs at State pledged one named Ida Cline! (She became Homecoming Queen.)

We had a PNM one year named Pepper White. Middle name...

Wareagle.

Yes, her parents met at Auburn, and she came to UGA. As did her sister.

Whitney Tiger White.

You cannot make this stuff up.

Also, I would like a recipe for the severed finger cookies.

carnation · #54 08-10-2011, 02:01 PM

BraveMaroon, I swear to you that when she was born, I saw that name in the Auburn Alum Magazine and asked my husband why on earth anyone would name their kid Pepper WarEagle!!!!

I wonder where she pledged?

MC, you are a sick man.

Lady Pi · #55 08-10-2011, 02:21 PM

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Originally Posted by DubaiSis

But now I'm obsessed with what kind of cookie I am. I am certainly no mint milano, but I can't say I'm a nilla wafer either. I'm some kinda cookie that's got fruit and is nutty, but nothing fancy. Mix it together and drop by spoonsful onto the pan. Eat in small doses or I become too much.

Fig Newton?

Munchkin03 · #56 08-10-2011, 02:25 PM

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Originally Posted by FSUZeta

okay, MC. you have proved that some cookies DO NOT belong in the same cookie jar-lol!

Yuck! When I was little, I'd get upset when my mom would mix cookies in the cookie jar. I do NOT want Oreo dust on my Chips Ahoy!, and vice-versa.

It makes me sick just thinking about it.

On a serious note, this is a place where those of us in NPC groups could learn from the NPHC. From my experience with NPHC friends and family members, legacies may have aspirations and even expectations of being in their mother or grandmother's sorority, they always learn that membership in the legacy group is not promised. That of course, doesn't prevent mothers and grandmothers from going nuts when their kid doesn't get in, but NPHC legacies, for the most part, know they have to work as hard as, and in some cases harder than, everyone else.

I think this philosophy has to be brought home a lot more, especially as demand for NPC membership grows. Because of Bright Futures and HOPE, the sororities are having to make deep cuts earlier than they had to when we were in school. We have to make sure alumnae are aware of these changes.

MysticCat · #57 08-10-2011, 02:30 PM

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Originally Posted by carnation

MC, you are a sick man.

Lady Pi · #58 08-10-2011, 02:36 PM

Okay, the undie cookies would be really cute for a Bachelorette Party.

The other cookies... scare me. I can think of a weird past PNM to go with all of them though. Desserts for the Disturbed?

Recipe for the finger cookies, from one of Martha Stewart's Halloween Specials.: http://www.food.com/recipe/severed-f...cookies-135850

DubaiSis · #59 08-10-2011, 02:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Lady Pi

Fig Newton?

I think fig newton might be the perfect description for me. I'm a tasty treat that not everyone appreciates. Sweet but with a little bite. Flakey on the outside, gooey on the inside!

Low C Sharp · #60 08-10-2011, 02:46 PM

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This is a real person.