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Delta Dawn, What's That Frat Pin You Have
On?
DePauw Cuts Ties With Troubled
Sorority
Delta Dawn, What's That Frat Pin You Have
On?
The story takes place in Indiana, at De Pauw University, a Greek mainstay. One of the nation's oldest sororities— Delta Zeta— expelled virtually their entire chapter for not being fuckable enough.
"Fuckable" is the key word here, although it's been euphemistically described as an "image problem" defined by weight gain, brown skin, and inattention to fashion trends. Yeah, that's the "nice" way they're putting it! The studious math and science nerds of De Pauw's DZ house failed the "sorostitute" exam, and were sent their notices— evicted a week before finals.
The women who were canned were either fat— exact pounds not released!— or "ugly," non-white, or some shocking combination of the three. But the main problem was that they didn't put out. The national DZ leadership sent down a team of slender good-to-go blonds to take over recruiting, and weed out the non-compliant.
My "fair and toothy" photo above is— or was, pre-meltdown— the main illustration from DZ's home page. I feel sorry for the models. They might all be perfectly nice dykes who've been sold to DZ's PR Team for Aryan Sisterhood.
The second photo are some of the expelled DZ crew who are thankfully not keeping their mouths shut, despite threats from the National Office that they will be stripped— stripped!— of their alumna status if they make a peep.
You can read what some of the expelled "sisters" have to say for themselves, what some of their adoring boyfriends have added, plus plenty of indignant and disgusted alumni.
You can also read the campus newspaper, which seems determined to parse the insult by hairs. For instance, according to a recent survey, a slight majority of students say they "understand" why DZ's leaders had to do what they did. Students are already discussing who will be the most undesirable sorority, now that the "Delta Dogs" have been put to sleep.
The Greek system is founded on discriminations of race, class, and family— sugar-coated over the years as a "way to make friends." They prey on every freshman's fear of being lonely and miserable. But popularity contests on this scale are ingrained with their own special kind of misery. "A place to groom future bigots and desperate housewives" is one of the unhappy possibilities.
DZ, like every other traditional Greek, is notorious for closing "problem" chapters (one house was disowned after they recruited a Jewish girl), and keeping segregation alive long after George Wallace began to seem quaint. Putting De Pauw into receivership is just another pearl in their string game.
But there's another angle besides Greek-style eugenics. It's the heightened heterosexual regime of trophy wife assembly. These young women must learn to project the promise of Virgin WASP Money while getting sloshed and performing merit-based blow jobs on a calculated ladder of potential husbands, i.e., frat-brats. Plenty of the De Pauw "undesirables" had boyfriends and sex lives— they just weren't "partying" hard enough. Yep, their booze and tease stats were too low to qualify.
Sure, there's another view, too. It goes like this:
DZ's scandal in Indiana is an example is a sorority gone awry, a blemish on a farm system for the Wholesome Young Ladies of Tomorrow, doing good deeds (service!) and striving for outstanding leadership. Of course, a girl should try and look her best, but it's all about sisterhood and rolling up your charm bracelets to make it work.
This rationale is The Forgiveness Cupcake with Poor Excuse Frosting. Sorority-apologist puppy eyes mask the face of a truly ugly premise— that some people are better than others because of the manner born. Who wants to party down with that?
The media splash at De Pauw is rattling people's cages because of the fear it gnaws on: that we're pedaling backward into a 21st Century Dark Age:
These are the bad beans that have everyone's stomach in knots. Is
this what anyone imagined their little girl growing up to be? A
ballerina, an astronaut— or a student locked in her bedroom by
her "sisters" because they think she's too ugly to come downstairs?
Even Cinderella wouldn't pass that gas.
Source: susiebright.blogs.com/
DePauw Cuts Ties
With Troubled Sorority
The Delta Zeta sorority has said the 23 evictions were based on the members' lack of commitment to recruiting new members. But those asked to leave have charged that they were removed because of their appearance, contending they were active and supportive members of their sorority.
Bottoms said the school was unhappy with Delta Zeta's policies and actions, and with some of the postings on its Web site in response to the controversy that followed the evictions.
"I came to the conclusion that our approaches to these issues are just incompatible," he said in a news conference.
He did not elaborate on the policies with which the school disagreed. The sorority had previously defended its actions on its Web site and criticized DePauw's reaction to the issues. The Web site was not operating Monday.
Messages left Monday for the sorority's national president, Deborah A. Raziano, and the executive director of its national headquarters in Oxford, Ohio, were not returned.
In a statement released by e-mail Monday night, Delta Zeta said it was "disappointed" that DePauw had closed the chapter and said the situation was being "mischaracterized."
Bottoms said in a letter delivered Monday to Raziano that beginning in the fall, the sorority would no longer be recognized as part of the Greek system at the school. He asked the sorority to leave the campus in Greencastle, 40 miles west of Indianapolis, before then.
Bottoms said the only response from the national sorority to his letter had been an e-mail from Delta Zeta's attorney asking for the name of DePauw's attorney.
The sorority's members have long had a reputation as being known more for academics than partying, and their chapter was widely known among students as the "dog house."
The chapter started the school year with just 35 women, two-thirds empty on a campus where 70 percent of students join the Greek system.
Efforts to improve those numbers - and, some contend, the sorority's image - prompted Delta Zeta's national leadership to conduct a review to determine members' commitment to recruiting. As a result, it moved 23 members to alumnae status in December, evicting them from the sorority house. Six others left on their own.
Bottoms said of those six who remain on campus, four are seniors who will graduate this year. He said the university would help the other two women look for housing next fall.
DePauw's decision follows a letter of reprimand sent to the national organization Feb. 19.
Source: By Keith Robinson, news.aol.com/topnews/articles/_a/depauw-cuts-ties-with-troubled-sorority/20070313021409990001?cid=2359
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