I went to a Women's College and we used to joke that we didn't need sororities on campus because we were one. There was relatively little pressure on the dating front because men weren't generally around campus. For those who wanted to go Greek, there was a large University just down the street. Their sororities didn't recruit our women, but they didn't turn them away, either.
After reading Pledged by Alexandra Robbins, I was glad to have been sheltered from all of that. My college boyfriend was Greek, Phi Delta Theta to be exactly (just like my Daddy), so I got to observe the who process from the outside. I sent time in the frat house, went to formal, semi-formal, etc... and watched as girls who had previously ignored my boyfriend fell all over him once he was a brother. At least he was too smitten with me to notice!
Anyway, there was some scary information in the book, such as the fact that pipes at sorority house corrode at an alarming rate due the stomach acid that is constantly flushed through them. For the same reason, maintenance is called often to the house to clean out pipes clogged with vomit. I won't give away too much of the book, but you should know that over 75% of sorority girls have been sexually assaulted, most often by a fraternity member.
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12 comments:
my daughter was a sorority president at a Minnesota campus.
Over the course of a few years I met most of her "sisters" other than having the usual amount of college balogna, they were a pretty nice group of young ladies. Also, I can assure you that eating disorders beyond excess grazing were not a widespread issue with that group
Does a book like that sell unless it offers some sensationalism? Anyway, I do not think the allegations apply everywhere and possibly only sparsely
BTW, most waste plumbing is PVC, ABS, bondstrand, clay and concrete. Why? those materials are corrosion resistant. Few waste components are iron any more
Barf. I am so opposed to sororities and fraternities.
(my apologies to Mallory and anyone else who doesn't see anything wrong with them)
Saur, I am not a fan of them myself. I was just challenging some of the assertions presented from the book
I would have to wonder about that plumbing thing too. Not many buildings done in the last 20 years or so have metal pipes and even so I rather doubt stomach acid would collect enough to corrode even if they did. The amount of acid in a vomit session compared to the amount of water in flushing is pretty small. thus I owuld tend to doubt any other statistics the writer may throw out.....
way back in my day, way back, things were wild at the greek haunts, really wild. i liked women to be awake when I had sex with them so i genereally stayed away from the whole crowd. sorry mallory, but i saw this in person ages ago, and i doubt that much has changed since except one of the greeks is president now. and a bunch of the puke was from excess drinking not binge and purge, and whenever any parents show up the best face is always put on, you might just think you were visting a nunnery, but in most cases, you would have just been completely fooled by the show.
like they are stupid enough to be naked when you arrive? geeez.
Personally I stayed away from the sorority girls. They were very boring. They were for the most part the cheerleader types from high school who couldn't let it go. I still don't get the whole cheerleader thing. My was/is wife was an athlete. She played rugby in college. How hot is that? Anyway..
OK I'll admit it, 20 something years ago before I went in the military I did a few years at Emory U, in Atlanta. I was a Classical Humanities Major, but I didn't graduate. Go figure. Yes, I was a frat boy. But my frat was different. We weren't so much into drinking and Oingo Boingo as we were into weed, skateboards and the Grateful Dead. Suffice to say I had fun but the atmosphere wasn't conducive to the guy who was a little wild and had poor study habits. Living with a bunch of pothead geniuses was somewhat destructive. My greatest accomplishment of that period was seeing the Dead 14 times. My geartest Frat momment was throwing a bucket of paint on the Georgia Tech SAE Lion and making my escape on a skateboard holding on to the back of a car. That probably explains why I had to finish college years later going at night...
The funny thing is while we were the pothead house we were also the the pre-med house, had the highest greek gpa and in my brief stay we won the Interfrat Soccer, flag football and basketball championships several times.
We had a sister house, Delta Delta Delta, but didn't do much with them. They hated most of us because we wouldn't go to their silly functions and never held any exclusively for them. Our parties were open campus-wide. We had a great one called the annual ATO Acid wash. It was the night before the Fox Party, held at the fabulous Fox Theater in Atlanta.
We had a group of independent girls that were "Little Sisters." They were mostly girlfriends but all in all were a pretty cool bunch of girls. They were alwys around the house and did a lot of nice things for new people.
It was fun watching the sorority girls put on the freshman 15+ and still be judgemental bitches toward the "outsiders." And this was all just before parachute pants and right after Jordache.. Ah good times.
Good times bad times I think the whole greek system should be abolished because it forms island of exclusivity. Kids tend to gravitate toward their own kind and can miss out on the diversity that should be part of the college experience.
my $0.02
Mallory,
The book forcuses on Texas. Stomach acid corrodes PVC pipe. Also, may sorority houses are over 50 years old. I suggest you read the book and decide for yourself if she's telling the truth. I had friends in sororities who tell similar stories.
The book mentioned that some sororities and fraternities are considered the "losers" because they smoke piot or don't dress well. On my ex's campus Phi Delt and DphiE were considered the "elite" and they knew it. I went to Greek week and saw a lot of really disturbing behavior.
We were proudly not among the socially elite. We couldn't be elite. We were too proud of our diversity, athletic, academic acheivements and the quality of the weed we sold to the "so called" elites...
LOL
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