Sometimes writing a title for the post is difficult. Today’s title takes the cake for lame, but it will have to do.
Thank you, Delta Gamma, for a wonderful visual on the difference between alumni and alumnae!
Thank you, Delta Gamma!
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Twenty-four years after his death, Dr. Seuss – Theodor Seuss Geisel, has another best-seller. The manuscript of What Pet Should I Get? was found by his widow shortly after his death. It was released yesterday and became the #1 selling book on Amazon.com. Geisel was initiated into the Sigma Phi Epsilon chapter at Dartmouth College. See http://wp.me/p20I1i-bh.
Theodor Seuss Geisel, 1925, while a student at Dartmouth (courtesy of the Dartmouth College Library)
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Two Chi Omega authors were in the news recently. Harper Lee, author of the award winning To Kill a Mockingbird, released Go Set a Watchman. Lee was initiated into the at the University of Alabama.
Ann Rule, true crime author, died this week at the age of 83. She was a member of the Williamette University chapter of Chi Omega. She later received her undergraduate degree from the University of Washington.
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I feel like the Gladys Kravitz of the GLO twitterdom. Whenever someone posts one of these graphics in order to provide reasons to join a fraternity or sorority, I try to use it as a teachable moment. After all, why would anyone use downright false information as an incentive to join a GLO? Another graphic has emerged using incorrect information. It’s the first time I’ve seen it. All three share the totally erroneous “all but two U.S. Presidents” statement (see http://wp.me/p20I1i-Vb). The top one also has the incorrect first female astronaut information, among other things (see http://wp.me/p20I1i-le for female astronaut/sorority women info).
Please help stop the spread of this incorrect information.
It joins these other two graphics which also have misinformation.
It really should be called the “No So True Guide” See the NIC and NPC facts below.
And here’s another graphic containing misinformation. I am not sure why providing the image of a red cup does anyone any good.
While some of these “facts” are true, others clearly are not true.
If anyone would like to create a terrific looking visual with correct information, it would make me very happy and I’d even find a spot for it on my blog’s homepage.
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