We don't need no chubby chicks
Wouldn't it have been easier to create a sorority fitness plan?
Latest bit of weirdness that makes me wonder if we're really living in the 21st century:
From DePauw university in Indiana, 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.
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... the chapter appears to have been home to a diverse community over the years, partly because it has attracted brainy women, including many science and math majors, as well as talented disabled women, without focusing as exclusively as some sororities on potential recruits’ sex appeal, former sorority members said.
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But over the years DePauw students had attached a negative stereotype to the chapter, as evidenced by the survey that Pam Propsom, a psychology professor, conducts each year in her class. That image had hurt recruitment, and the national officers had repeatedly warned the chapter that unless its membership increased, the chapter could close.
My experiences with Greek life have all been channeled through M's participation. They are of frat houses that reek of sweaty socks and beer, an odor that has seeped into the wooden floorboards. They're of nerdy Jewish guys trying to pretend their some of Don Juan/Casanova/human repository of blood alcohol levels beyond the pale. We also have some nicely engraved paddles. M. won't tell me exactly what they're for. In all, it hasn't been an attractive picture. But I could be wrong. Any positive visions of Greek Life that I've genuinely missed out on?
I can envision Philo kicking someone out for being too creepy or sexually harrassing other members, but for being flubby? Or "insufficently committed?" Unthinkable! We need every cultist we can get.
Latest bit of weirdness that makes me wonder if we're really living in the 21st century:
From DePauw university in Indiana, 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.
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... the chapter appears to have been home to a diverse community over the years, partly because it has attracted brainy women, including many science and math majors, as well as talented disabled women, without focusing as exclusively as some sororities on potential recruits’ sex appeal, former sorority members said.
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But over the years DePauw students had attached a negative stereotype to the chapter, as evidenced by the survey that Pam Propsom, a psychology professor, conducts each year in her class. That image had hurt recruitment, and the national officers had repeatedly warned the chapter that unless its membership increased, the chapter could close.
My experiences with Greek life have all been channeled through M's participation. They are of frat houses that reek of sweaty socks and beer, an odor that has seeped into the wooden floorboards. They're of nerdy Jewish guys trying to pretend their some of Don Juan/Casanova/human repository of blood alcohol levels beyond the pale. We also have some nicely engraved paddles. M. won't tell me exactly what they're for. In all, it hasn't been an attractive picture. But I could be wrong. Any positive visions of Greek Life that I've genuinely missed out on?
I can envision Philo kicking someone out for being too creepy or sexually harrassing other members, but for being flubby? Or "insufficently committed?" Unthinkable! We need every cultist we can get.