Trouble in Sorority world as nationals take closer look at chapters...

[WCGreen]

My this is shocking, shocking I tell you....

-Worried that a negative stereotype of the sorority was contributing to a decline in membership that had left its Greek-columned house here half empty, Delta Zeta’s national officers interviewed 35 DePauw members in November, quizzing them about their dedication to recruitment. They judged 23 of the women insufficiently committed and later told them to vacate the sorority house.

The 23 members included every woman who was overweight. They also included the only black, Korean and Vietnamese members. The dozen students allowed to stay were slender and popular with fraternity men — conventionally pretty women the sorority hoped could attract new recruits. Six of the 12 were so infuriated they quit.

“Virtually everyone who didn’t fit a certain sorority member archetype was told to leave,” said Kate Holloway, a senior who withdrew from the chapter during its reorganization. -

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/25/education/25sorority.html?hp

I remember how elitist and snobbish the whole greek system was at Ohio State back in the late 70's...

Looking back, it was probably a reaction to the turmoil on the campus during the late 60's and early 70's...

That and well, disco...

And the rise avuncular Ronnie as a national political figure...

[Nikia]

1. That's just awful

I don't know much about that chapter. I think that if they were willing to give up so easily on most of the women that not only were they unfair and not really about what a sorority is supposed to stand for, they aren't a very strong national organization anyway.
Most good national sororities work with the women they have in the chapter when they are not meeting recruitment standards. They don't get rid of over half the members.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

2. At our school Sigma Sigma Chi was full of all the easy chicks.

And they were all cute and cheerleaderish. They were very popular with the boys. Our school didn't have Frats at the time.
As for the national chapter dismissing all the "unattractive girls," who does that?! That's repugnant. I knew I hated sorority girls. I actually brawled with one over my best friend at the time, a frat guy. I was totally drunk, and we were making out. His ex-girlfriend came over and pulled my hair to get me off his face. EVERYONE who knows me knows that you do NOT pull my hair. I get violent. I beat her ass, and they escorted HER out and made her leave. It was ridiculous.
Duckie

[WCGreen]

3. Back when I was in School, a lot of the Greeks seemed to be trapped

in the late 50's early 60's...

I know it's a lot different now...

[distantearlywarning]

4. Wow.

That article is the sickest thing I've read in a long time. Those people are pathetic. I hope a couple of the kicked out members get together and sue the living crap out of the national people.

It certainly doesn't improve my image of sororities, that's for sure (although maybe I would consider joining the one they talked about BEFORE they kicked all the interesting girls out).

[WCGreen]

7. They should take action....

[Radical Activist]

5. Its funny

It seems like there are different attitudes about them in different regions. I went to school in the Midwest where Sorority girl was pretty much synonymous with "drunken slut" but I've noticed sororities in the South appear to be more about social class. Its the country club of the college campus.

[entanglement]

6. Discriminatory fraternity / sorority systems persist because administrators turn a blind eye

Many big alumni donors are former fraternity members, and colleges are afraid to displease them in any way. I understand students have the right to associate with whom they wish, but it is immoral for universities to help perpetuate this snobbish, anti-democratic institution. At the very least, public institutions should stop associating themselves with or supporting the Greek system in any way.