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A lot of the comments are a bit too thin-skinned! I actually read the book; I checked it out of the public library in my city. The only problem I see is that she sometimes extrapolates from the narrow perspective of what she was personally privy to, in order to pontificate on larger issues. Let's be real! Catty behaviour, hazing,racial insensitivity, excesses of drink,sex, drugs, date rape do occur in Greekdom. It may not be the whole story or even major problems. They are importnat enough that sincere Greeks should want to deal with these things and not "sweep them under the rug."
The real story which made the book interesting and attractivewas the narrative thread of the young women's experiences in the context of their lives as ordinary human beings in this Greek context. Her final assessment on sorority life is a very ambivalent one, not wholly negative. Sort of like life in a variety of institutional settings, I suppose.
"Que Psi Phi 'til the day I die!"
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