is it weird that as a woc for one srat all of my individual rush chats have been with a person of my race it was nice at first but it felt like less of a coincidence and i felt hypervisible and tokenized
TigerConfessions served as a forum for students to discuss their social lives — including eating clubs, Lawnparties, relationships and more.
Of the eleven eating clubs, posters named Ivy the most on TigerConfessions with 226 mentions (though this may include posts referencing the Ivy League), followed closely by Cap and Gown, with 215 mentions. In contrast, students had less to say about Cannon Dial Elm Club and Cloister Inn, with just 51 and 67 mentions, respectively. Charter Club, however, was the eating club most commonly mentioned in posts containing the term “eating club”.
Posts about Charter Club spiked in January 2020. The majority of Charter-related posts in January 2020 related to the club’s decision to become bicker as opposed to sign-in and to change their Friday event Charter Fridays from an event that all students could access to one which required attendees be on a list compiled by members. Charter eventually decided to implement a selective sign-in process. Participating members of Tiger Confessions had strong feelings about the change, ranging from “i am so angry about the new chosen proposal for charter” to “i have to stan.”
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Mentions of “bicker” typically remain low but peak towards late January, around when bicker takes place. In 2022, the fraction of posts mentioning bicker also peaked in November-December, when many eating clubs started to hold pre-bicker events.
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Posts containing “rush” increase generally towards the end of summer just before sorority and fraternity rush, which typically takes place towards the beginning of the fall semester. Fraternities and sororities are not officially recognized by the University. The most significant peak in posts about rush was a discussion about race and inclusion in fraternities and sororities in the summer of 2020, as part of a broader discussion about race following the murder of George Floyd. Of all 48 posts mentioning “rush,” “rushing” or “rushed” in August 2020, about 14.6 percent mentioned “racism,” “racist,” or “racially”; 25 percent mentioned “diverse” or “diversity”; 25 percent mentioned “WOC” (an acronym for “women of color”); and about 16.7 percent mentioned “white.”
is it weird that as a woc for one srat all of my individual rush chats have been with a person of my race it was nice at first but it felt like less of a coincidence and i felt hypervisible and tokenized
was in a sorority last year and had to sit by and listen to a few of my white sisters talk about how they would not ever date poc this is also a group of girls that has fetishized black men especially athletes i got up to leave after a few minutes of that only one of the girls later texted me and asked if i was fine because i left so abruptly after i told her she was confused because i’m white why would i be hurt
“Theta,” in reference to one of the sororities on campus Kappa Alpha Theta, was mentioned in 19 posts, or about 39.6 percent of all posts with the word “rush” in August 2020. “Pi Phi,” in reference to another sorority on campus, Pi Beta Phi, was mentioned in 10 posts, or about 20.8 percent of all posts with “rush” in August 2020.
By August 2021, the discussion seemed to be over. No posts in August 2021 that mentioned the word “rush” also included the words “diverse,” diversity,” “WOC,” “racism,” “racist,” or “racially.”
Some students used TigerConfessions to discuss their alcohol use. Overall, .35 percent of posts analyzed contained the word “drunk.” The number of posts containing the word “drunk” was at an all-time peak in January and February 2020, just prior to the start of the pandemic. The fraction of posts containing the word “drunk” was also higher just before the pandemic than it was for the remainder of 2020 and all of 2021. 39 posts during this peak contained the word “drunk.” Of those, 10 posts were about the poster’s love life.
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The fraction of posts containing the word “sex” peaked in March of 2021.
Of the 48 posts containing the word “sex” in March 2021, about 10.4 percent mentioned “Whitman.” No other residential colleges were mentioned in posts containing the word “sex” besides Butler (one post, 2 percent of posts containing the word “sex” in March 2021). Overall, 28.9 percent of the 45 posts containing the word “orgy” also contained “Whitman”.
i walked in on the whitman orgy and it was just a bunch of people licking knees and feeling smooth toes
About 14.6 percent of March 2021 posts that mentioned “sex” also mentioned masturbation. At the time, the University’s social contract required masks, discouraged students from coming within six feet of others and put strict capacity constraints on indoor spaces. Peer Health Advisors encouraged opting for masturbation instead of sex or having sex masked.