SVU No. 53: Truth or Dare

[lila_wannabe]

The cover of the book features a photo of Todd looking puzzled. No change there then.
 The back of the book promises some life-changing decisions. Apparently Jessica doesn’t want to grow up...but “being nineteen has its price”. Todd may risk giving up everything for Dana, and Sam is pushing Liz away.
I can tell you right now that none of these issues

Comments

[xbexuniquex]

Hmm. Societies and clubs must run differently in the US from in the UK. Over here, if you go to Uni and there is no Fencing Club - you start a Fencing Club. Literally every University I've visited this year (St. Andrews, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Strathclyde, Chester) has said this. They have crazy societies - the Manga Society, the Cheese Appreciation Society. Pretty much everything gets funding. Then again, SVU is probably funded by the Wakefields. I bet you they just paid for a fake-Uni to be built so that their kids didn't have to move out of Sweet Valley. Hence why being friends with Jess and Liz makes you automatically popular. (I agree with the recapper - how small is this Uni that everyone knows the Wakefields?) So I guess that would explain the fact that the only things worth funding at SVU are soroities, fraternities and sports teams. I am so glad we don't have the whole Greek-house thing over here. I mean, really, whose idea was it to PROMOTE cliques?

Back to the recap - what is the point of the character of Dana? Seriously, what does she bring to SVU? She was in one chapter in the Road Trip book I just recapped, and that one chapter was enough to make me want to burn the book. She actually makes Chloe look likeable.

[lila_wannabe]

She sure as hell makes Chloe look less pathetic!
And my university had a chocolate society!

[gojl5567]

I think it's the same in the US, though they might not get funding if there are budget cuts or your club is really tiny. Maybe a Fencing Club might have more liability since they have swords than other clubs. But then I work for an insurance company so we just come out with really obscure obejections sometime.

[annakelly]

"They have crazy societies - the Manga Society, the Cheese Appreciation Society. Pretty much everything gets funding."

This is the coolest thing ever. Also, I agree that the greek system has a bad rap, and sometimes it deserves it, but there are some really cool, easy-going houses out there.

(Sorry for the mini-rant. I know a bunch of sorority girls and I like them so I felt like I had to speak up :))

[xbexuniquex]

No problem for the mini-rant - I'm sure that there are some nice, non-cliquey greek houses out there. Just like there are some popular kids at high school who don't gossip or bitch and are nice to the non-popular kids. There are always some exceptions.

Question re greek houses: is it a huge deal to get into one? I'm just thinking about some of the huge Unis I've visited this year, and the idea that there's a "club" which everyone wants to join...it just wouldn't work there. My only knowledge of American colleges comes from teen novels, like SVU, and they present this idea that EVERYONE wants to join a greek hour, and that it's like a popularity contest. And once you're in, everyone on campus knows who you are. I find this highly unbelievable, but please correct me if this is true. I'm just thinking about places like the University of Glasgow, where there are 160,000 undergraduate students. The idea that two twin girls are known and admired by every student is pretty amusing :) SVU must be pretty tiny for that to be possible.

[annakelly]

Agree totally with kikiwilliams. I'd also add that some frats and sororities are more laid back and less obsessed with appearances. Of course, some have notorius reputations, e.g. the slutty Tri Delts (Delta Delta Delta) at my university. My younger roommate taught me this: "Tri Delt! Everyone else has!"

But I doubt that a pair of twins would be known school-wide, no matter what kind of sorority they joined. It's completely ludicrous.

[irinaauthor]

Heh. At my school everyone called Kappa Kappa Gamma "Visa Visa Mastercard" because that was the sorority all the rich girls joined. We had the Tri Delt joke too.

[annakelly]

No way! At my school KKG is the sorority for all the quietly religious girls. In fact, my friend who's in it described it as the sorority for all the girls that other, more uppity sororities wouldn't/couldn't take. But Visa Visa Mastercard is funny!