Wow - this article from Univ. of Oklahoma is just...sad.

http://oudaily.com/news/2011/aug/22/...ty-experience/

wow - what a terrible indictment of sorority life. I hope they will publish a counterpoint article that can represent equal time. So sorry for Alpha phi which, based on the article and responses, appears to be a smaller group on campus and probably does not need the negative press.

sad. Shame on the newspaper and the reporter for such an obvious bias.

Exactly. The comments to the article were very interesting and sad as well.

it makes me wonder if she joined to further her jounalistic ambitions, sort of like the girl who, several years ago, went thru rush at (i believe) UT-Knoxville, just to write an article for the student paper.

naming names was inexcusable!

That article is just vile, the girl is obviously very scorned.

So her main gripe is they had to wear Spanx during rush?

She says nothing about what day to day life in the sorority was like. Ridiculous.

I can't wait till she quits a job because she had to wear a business suit to meet with a client.

ETA: I had to chuckle at the comment about her "whopping 376 friends" on facebook. Some of my friends prune their FB down to under 200 and STILL think that's too many. Generation gap! :)

http://alphaphisooners.com/

Not sure they are a smaller group. But they have been on campus a long time unless the chapter closed and then returned recently.

According to irishpipes' BORT (Big Ole Recruitment Thread), the chapter closed in 1998, and reopened in 2007.

Wow... that article is sad and pathetic.

In looking at the Alpha Phi OU website, they look to be a group of beautiful and diverse women... nothing suggests what this so-called "journalist" says about them.

Some people just never will understand sisterhood... and that makes me sad. :(

Yea for South Carolina!

Alpha Gamma Delta will be there next year!:D

I don't support the article, but I understand how recruitment could be a catalyst for wanting out of the system.

I think it comes across here when we touch on the more superficial aspects of recruitment that there are some aspects of how we pick members that might not 100% line up with what we'd define as a perfect sisterhood. If those unpleasant parts became defining for the way you viewed your own group, I can see how it would be hard to continue and how you might want to indict the whole system rather than admit that you bought into it.

But writing the article is just a jerk move.

Cosign with all, particularly in bold.

Iowa recruitment starts this weekend. 716 PNMs

I think my favorite comment on the article was

Glad you got that off your chest. However, this is a sorry excuse for a column. If you call yourself a journalist why on earth did you feel the need to call out the sorority you chose to join. While writing about your experiences and shedding light on an issue you feel strongly about is one thing, calling out student organizations and therefore students so explicitly in the midst of that completely discredits your accountability as a writer. Food for thought next time you decide to publish a diary entry and call it "research. "

Anyways.

Disaffiliation at SLU starts tomorrow, and pre-recruitment workshops start Sunday- never been more excited!

Woot!