"A New Normal"

Welcome to Greek-vivor! Every week, we review the week's Greek episode and, in a Survivor-style system, award points to the Greek students best making their way through the college outback. The section ahead contains spoilers for this weeks episode.








*Her iPod is held captive by weird ex-boyfriend from Brown University. -5
*Got told for touching Lizzy’s gavel. -1
*Nailed Calvin with 110 messages. Seriously? Stop at 100. -5
*Received forgiveness from Calvin. +6
*Eight bags indicate she’s shopping for three or 50. -2
*…oh wait, she's actually shopping for all ZBZ. +2
*Outs Calvin to random student. She really needs to work on her "not-outing-friends-in-front-of-large-crowds" skills. -1

Net Change: -6
Sum: 94







*Mentioned putting the Omega guys in chaps. Dude, there are some ugly guys in that fraternity. -3
*Forgave Ashleigh for outing him. +6
*Considers joining Dale's U-SAG group. -1
*Decides not to when threatened with the gay kryptonite of vitamins, prayer and purity pledges. +2

Net Change:+4
Sum: 104







*Scored vacation hookup +1
*…with Rebecca -1
*Mistook Evan for Dean Bowman +2
*Poked fun at Evan: “Good God man, not wristbands!" +2
*Has an issue with braided belts. Hey, braided belts are cool man. -2
*Put Rusty in his place after creepy sister pimping:
”Shame on you for Pimping out your sister” +2
*Gave inspirational speech about having parties +3
*Forced Rusty to delete Jen K messages. Seriously, just search YouTube for LonelyGirl 15--it's all there. I promise. +4
*Covered up Beaver hitting on Heath’s sister.-1
*Has Yeti Wars set at the famous Kappa Tau volcano. Draws bigger crowd than kissing booth. +2
*Scores kiss with Casey. Two girls in one episode? One more and I'll refer to him as James Bond. +2

Net Change: +14
Sum: 114







*Threw Rusty’s burned CD out window. +3
*Admitted to watching Oprah. -5
*Totally told by random Greek chick at Panhellenic meeting. -1
*Came up with carnival idea. +1
*Has to have weekly chapter meetings now. Stinks for you. -1
*Oh, and stuck with crazy ZBZ chapter overseer. Life's just awful. -3
*Drives Prius. Very environmentally friendly. Good call. +1
*Manages to book Plain White T’s for carnival +1
*No one comes to kissing booth. Ouch. -5
*Until Cappie takes pity on them. +1
*Crazy chapter overseer chick busts into her room at odd hours. -3
*Compared Jen K to Satan. +3
*Admits missing Evan. We already figured it out from the forlorn glances at your lavaliere and the awkward conversations. +2
*Straightening out sorority finances. +2

Net Change: 0
Sum: 100








*Admitted to attending Crystal Cathedral -3
*Accurately quoted 1 Timothy 7:14 +2
*Seriously wondered about Jen K’s virginity. Dude, they were borrowing your room last season. Put it all together. -2
*Has a "Greeks Are Weak" sign advertising U-SAG. Hmm. At least he’s organizing something with a catchy name. Appears to have more followers than his previous protest group and Church rock band. +5
*Considered curing homosexuality with vitamins, prayer, and purity pledge -4
*Gave Jen’s “Hair thing” to Rusty. Not smart. -1
*First customer of ZBZ Kissing Booth, Inc. +2
*Tries to score kiss with Casey but sprays breath freshener in eye. Requires med station eye wash. -3

Net Change: -4
Sum: 96







*Totally working that suit +1
*Asked Calvin to give Omega Chi another try. +1
*Doesn’t know what booth his fraternity is doing. All the other Greeks presidents seem pretty involved--you relegated it to your pledges? No wonder you didn't get any air time. -3
*Awkward “I want to get back together with you but not really” conversation. -4
*Can’t win over his frat to get Calvin back. -2
*Strips sweetheart title from Casey. -2
*And wants lavelier back. -2
*Flirted on by Tri-Pis. +2
*Has cliché drunken confession at bar to Calvin. +2

Net Change: -9
Sum: 91








*Rumored to have gained 30 pounds. Did you even try Slim Fast? -3
*At a farm in Pennsylvania. Sounds kind of boring and pathetic. Upcoming Omish episode? -2

Net Change: -5
Sum: 95








*Scored on by Cappie. Your sleeping around has gone downhill. You used to be scoring with a Chambers. -3
*Tried to pull the old manicurist trick. If you don't snap, Lizzy will curse you with frizzy hair. Just ask, it happened to her. -1
*In library, tries to pull off a Nancy Drew look alike costume +4
*...but dressed like Victoria's Secret model underneath. +1
*Used an overdue library fine to trap Cappie. It actually worked. +1
*Has to kiss Beaver. I don't know if he brushed his teeth since last season. -2

Net Change: 0
Sum: 100








*Played ex-girlfriends CD in car every day for four weeks. -3
*Grilled Cappie on Rebecca. +1
*Usually sets up snacks for meetings. What a gent. +1
*Tried to pull the old “I’m writing a paper trick”. The only works when school's in session. -2
*Has Jen K Cyber Shrine. That’s creepy. -1
*Assigned snow machine duty +2
*Found Jen K with another guy. Never bring back the hair thing - they’re $1 for a packet. -5
*Let down his Kappa bros. Neglected to bring snow machine. Bad freshman -4
*Admits missing Jen K. As if we didn’t know. +1

Net Change: -10
Sum: 90

Well, everyone thanks for reading. Sometime in the next few weeks, we look to have a showdown between Evan and Cappie, some more humiliating freshman moments for Rusty, the revealing of Frannie "Gained 30 Pounds on Fat Farm" Morgan and perhaps some more appearances from LonelyGirl 15. This first week leaves us with Cappie rushing into the lead with Rusty plummeting fast. If he doesn't get out of Jen K funk fast, I'm afraid this season doesn't look good for him.

Standings:

Cappie (114)+14
Calvin (104)+4
Casey (100) 0
Rebecca (100) 0
Dale (96) -4
Frannie (95)-5
Ashleigh (94)-6
Evan (91) -9
Rusty(90)-10

Panhellenic Panel

"Does that really happen?"
By Greekgirl

This week I want to talk about Lizzy, the Zeta Beta Zeta nationals’ representative who’s taken up residence in the ZBZ house much to the dismay of Casey and the other sisters. Lizzy is overboard. Seriously, we have all known those girls, on the cheer squad in high school, or even in organizations, or study group; girls that are so enthusiastic about what they are doing, they annoy you. We had reps like Lizzy come to tell us tips on “how to rush,” but none were as positively overbearing as she. There were a few I met during my rush experience, but thankfully none were like that in my actual organization. Her concern that anything fun will cause problems for the girls is beyond me. Perhaps if she stepped up to the front of the kissing booth she might have loosened up a bit. Right now my guess is the writers have a ploy to hook her up with Dale, Rusty’s roommate.
In other mentions, kissing booths and lavalieres. While I have never seen one I would not discount that anything can be convincing if it is for charity. University deans love to say their student body gives to charity, even if it is something that under all other circumstances would not take place. I wish I could have seen what the Omega Chi’s were doing, or someone other than just ZBZ and Kappa Tau.
The sorority rivalry depicted between the Tri-Pi girls and ZBZ happens at all universities in some form or the other. I wish the Tri-Pi calling to Evan would have been a little less realistic though, she could have run after him. And the yeti booth was pretty creative on the Kappa Tau’s part, I think some fraternities that performed at my school’s University Sing and the Kappa Tau’s are thinking the same way.
As for Evan wanting his lavaliere back from Casey, I don’t get why she wanted to keep it in the first place. It is however pretty standard for a girl to return her letters to the guy if he breaks up with her. As for de-selecting a sweetheart, I have not heard of that. Some sororities do not allow their members to be fraternity sweethearts, because a sweetheart is an honorary fraternity member, in a sense.
Mind your letters.

See you next week!