Spring Break
Avoid the hook-up black-list
Esti Frischling
Issue date: 9/16/08 Section: Opinion
Q:
There's a girl in a certain sorority (to remain unnamed) who I want to hook up with, but I am absolutely not interested in forming anything more serious with her. Is it worth risking any chance I might have with the rest of the girls in her sorority who might hold more serious potential for me?
A:
I don't pretend to be familiar with the inner workings of the university's sisterhood, but I've heard rumors about the consequences of trying to play the sorority field. It seems like it'd be an easy mistake to make.
You get all dressed up in your nice button-down shirt, quickly refresh yourself on the address of your 21-year-old alias and head to one of College Park's fine drinking establishments. You find out what the special is, and begin knocking back $1 beers as you scan the crowd for ladies. You set your sights on the girl across the room who's moving her body like a cyclone and spit your finest game in the hopes of getting lucky. Thankfully, she's a lover, not a withholder, and lucky you get.
This story sounds like something that could happen to you, right? I personally know guys who've messed with what they assumed was a drunken one-night stand, only to discover this forlorn sister has formed some sort of attachment. Before they know it, they've irreversibly ended up on The List.
Oh yes, The List. I'm not sure if this is a revelation of a little-known secret, or just an old wives' tale, but I'm a believer. I've heard too much mention of The List for it to be merely fantastical.
The notorious List could be a function of very few sororities, it could be more of a virtual list; it could even be entirely fictional. Regardless, the idea behind The List is that if a girl decides she would feel uncomfortable if one of her sisters got with a specific guy, she can put him on The List. She likes him, she hates him, she wants him, she wants to screw him over - all possible motives for listing.
However once on this list, our poor hero is doomed to wander Route 1 alone, totally off-limits to the other members of said sorority, lest the violator be deemed "unsisterly."
There's a girl in a certain sorority (to remain unnamed) who I want to hook up with, but I am absolutely not interested in forming anything more serious with her. Is it worth risking any chance I might have with the rest of the girls in her sorority who might hold more serious potential for me?
A:
I don't pretend to be familiar with the inner workings of the university's sisterhood, but I've heard rumors about the consequences of trying to play the sorority field. It seems like it'd be an easy mistake to make.
You get all dressed up in your nice button-down shirt, quickly refresh yourself on the address of your 21-year-old alias and head to one of College Park's fine drinking establishments. You find out what the special is, and begin knocking back $1 beers as you scan the crowd for ladies. You set your sights on the girl across the room who's moving her body like a cyclone and spit your finest game in the hopes of getting lucky. Thankfully, she's a lover, not a withholder, and lucky you get.
This story sounds like something that could happen to you, right? I personally know guys who've messed with what they assumed was a drunken one-night stand, only to discover this forlorn sister has formed some sort of attachment. Before they know it, they've irreversibly ended up on The List.
Oh yes, The List. I'm not sure if this is a revelation of a little-known secret, or just an old wives' tale, but I'm a believer. I've heard too much mention of The List for it to be merely fantastical.
The notorious List could be a function of very few sororities, it could be more of a virtual list; it could even be entirely fictional. Regardless, the idea behind The List is that if a girl decides she would feel uncomfortable if one of her sisters got with a specific guy, she can put him on The List. She likes him, she hates him, she wants him, she wants to screw him over - all possible motives for listing.
However once on this list, our poor hero is doomed to wander Route 1 alone, totally off-limits to the other members of said sorority, lest the violator be deemed "unsisterly."
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cp girl
posted 9/16/08 @ 12:02 AM EST
sorority girls are lame. this is probably not representative of ALL sororities on campus, but i've heard about lots of girls in sororities hooking up with their 'sister's' boyfriends or boys their 'sister's' are interested in. (Continued…)
Frat Goon / Serority Slut mentality
posted 9/16/08 @ 9:43 AM EST
"I am an unoriginal, uninteresting, insecure person. I will therefore join a serority/fraternity in order to follow other people like a sheep and have a personality formed for me. (Continued…)
dk
posted 9/16/08 @ 2:26 PM EST
we all know sorority girls don't care about a list. the only list around is a list of girls that will do any guy that buys them a beer.
who is on that list? any girl that is part of a sorority. (Continued…)
Spell Check- you are in the wrong country
posted 9/16/08 @ 3:21 PM EST
'Spell Check:' It's a good thing there are not too many people like you in this country, attempting to dictate who has the right to '...defend his position on paper. (Continued…)
Haha spell check
posted 9/16/08 @ 8:02 PM EST
You are the one who comes across as a moron by your writing in the second person.
AK
posted 9/16/08 @ 8:24 PM EST
All of the people here are way flawed in their views on the Greek system. Obviously there are certain people who follow these awful stereotypes, but they are not representative of the population as a whole. (Continued…)
Shari Beaty
posted 9/16/08 @ 11:11 PM EST
The author begins with the line "I don't pretend to understand the innerworkings of the greek system" that alone represents virtually everyone who has posted on this website. (Continued…)
Maud J.
posted 9/17/08 @ 1:25 PM EST
To the author of this article, I strongly recommend that you stick to the topics of what you know (Greek Life obviously isn't one of them) in the future. (Continued…)
Not an idiot
posted 9/17/08 @ 3:46 PM EST
"Allow me to remind you that the job of a reporter is to report the FACTS, which is exactly the opposite of what you have done. Congratulations."
You are correct; a reporter is supposed to report the facts. (Continued…)
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