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"It happened twice but let's make it look like a trend and get some clicks"

by xchip 3y ago

eesmith 3y ago
If it's of any help, https://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/22/education/edlife/prepping-students-for-sorority-rush.html https://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/22/education/edlife/prepping... from 11 years ago : > MARGARET KING of Birmingham, Ala., was at a loss about how to help her older daughter prepare to rush at the University of Virginia. In the South, where sororities have long been a momentous rite of passage, the road to sisterhood is long and not so clearly marked. > So Mrs. King, who graduated from Yale in 1984, before it had any sororities, enlisted the aid of Marlea Foster and Pat Grant, local consultants who had coached their own daughters through rush at Furman, the University of Georgia and Auburn University. Naming themselves the Rushbiddies, they opened shop in 2009 after hearing about the rush misfortunes of their daughters’ friends. About 50 mothers and their “chicks,” as the Biddies affectionately call them, attended one of their two-day workshops in April ($100 a couple), complete with mock rush party, wardrobe hints and paperwork prep. While I don't have access to the WSJ or NYT, commentary from 2012 on the NYT piece at https://washingtonmonthly.com/2012/07/16/sorority-consultants/ https://washingtonmonthly.com/2012/07/16/sorority-consultant... says 'Von Sperling apparently charges $8,000 for a weekend session, advising young women to “treat rush… as you would a job interview.”' There's more about Rushbiddies from the 2017 piece 'The Strange World of Sorority Rush Consultants', republished in 2023 at https://www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/arts-and-culture/a12108142/sorority-rush-consultants/ https://www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/arts-and-culture/a... . It comments: > Following the premiere of the new documentary Bama Rush, we're resurfacing this 2017 story about the strange world of sorority rush consultants. That documentary is perhaps what inspired this WSJ piece?
gus_massa 3y ago
Old but still relevant: "The submarine" by pg http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html (no big discussion in HN)

"It happened twice but let's make it look like a trend and get some clicks"

by xchip 3y ago

"It happened twice but let's make it look like a trend and get some clicks"

If it's of any help, https://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/22/education/edlife/prepping-students-for-sorority-rush.html https://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/22/education/edlife/prepping... from 11 years ago : > MARGARET KING of Birmingham, Ala., was at a loss about how to help her older daughter prepare to rush at the University of Virginia. In the South, where sororities have long been a momentous rite of passage, the road to sisterhood is long and not so clearly marked. > So Mrs. King, who graduated from Yale in 1984, before it had any sororities, enlisted the aid of Marlea Foster and Pat Grant, local consultants who had coached their own daughters through rush at Furman, the University of Georgia and Auburn University. Naming themselves the Rushbiddies, they opened shop in 2009 after hearing about the rush misfortunes of their daughters’ friends. About 50 mothers and their “chicks,” as the Biddies affectionately call them, attended one of their two-day workshops in April ($100 a couple), complete with mock rush party, wardrobe hints and paperwork prep. While I don't have access to the WSJ or NYT, commentary from 2012 on the NYT piece at https://washingtonmonthly.com/2012/07/16/sorority-consultants/ https://washingtonmonthly.com/2012/07/16/sorority-consultant... says 'Von Sperling apparently charges $8,000 for a weekend session, advising young women to “treat rush… as you would a job interview.”' There's more about Rushbiddies from the 2017 piece 'The Strange World of Sorority Rush Consultants', republished in 2023 at https://www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/arts-and-culture/a12108142/sorority-rush-consultants/ https://www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/arts-and-culture/a... . It comments: > Following the premiere of the new documentary Bama Rush, we're resurfacing this 2017 story about the strange world of sorority rush consultants. That documentary is perhaps what inspired this WSJ piece?

gus_massa 3y ago

Old but still relevant: "The submarine" by pg http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html (no big discussion in HN)