Article in Teen Vogue
 

What month is the article supposed to be in? Is it in the newest one or an older one. I will be keeping an eye out for it.

http://www.greekchat.com/gcforums/sh...threadid=45894

It's the newest issue (April) - and all I can say is if the rest of her book is like this I'll be surprised if anyone can get through it because her writing style is so horrible.

It's in this month's issue, I was at Walgreen's yesterday and read some if it. The stories are really really hard to believe. Honestly, I can't imagine people actually doing the stuff she described. I didn't read the whole thing, but the pictures they staged to go along with the article ar really awful.
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Wow...

well, i can't say that i haven't heard that things like this happen, but i have to wonder if its exaggerated...

hey, everyone's gotta make a buck.

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they actually named names?? that is horrible, no one should have to see their organization potrayed in a negative light (i remember the tri delt article in teen people) especially when we all know there are 2 sides to every story.

but i suppose that wouldn't sell :rolleyes:

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Wow... I'm definitely gonna check this out next time I'm at work (reading magazines on my lunch break is the high point of my job... sad...)

Like 33girl brought up in another thread, some of the incidents she used as "examples" were over 10 and even 20+ years old! (The Kappa and the Alpha Gam ones come specifically to mind as fairly old news in the world of hazing incidents--they have been dealt with and are over).

I think this girl has a serious chip on her shoulder from something. First her "expose" on Skull and Bones and now this. She may think she's doing investigative journalism but really all she's doing is trying to justify to herself why these organizations are so "bad" and trying to turn other people against them.

Slight correction, A E PHI is the sorority, A E PI is a fraternity.

DolphinChica, what was the DDD article in Teen People about?

whoops.....typo

I read the story today

it's actually a chunk of a book this girl wrote that's called: Pledged, by Alexandra Robbins. It just came out this month and it's basically about the author and how she dealt with pledging a sorority X amount of years ago. I can't believe she got away with out right saying different sorority's names and whatnot. I was reading some of the things in the Teen Vogue article to my friend (who is also an Alpha Phi) and she couldn't believe it. But if you read the whole article in Teen Vogue, a lot of the things that happened to these pledges happened in the late 90s. Now i'm not trying to justify what the sisters of these said sororities did was right, but at that time, there really wasn't as much concern as there is today about hazing.

The article even mentions what schools these sororities did whatever to the pledges. I think i'm going to pick up the book this week if i get a chance. I'm interested in reading it because I know when recruitment comes around a lot of girls are going to be asking us those questions pertaining to the book (very similar questions from when Sorority Life was on MTV).

There was a story last summer about how a sister from southern chapter got bought in front of standards and deactivated because she was raped. Which I find very hard to believe...you don't get kicked out of a sorority for being raped. There had to be another aspect to the story, but naturally it will never be heard.

Maybe we should post a topic on Teen Vogue's forum or write a letter to the editor, I mean, really any girl in HS is a PNM, we should be proactive and give the "young and impressionable" girls this magazine targets an opportunity to see the other side.