I lurk at another message board where a number of the members are Greek. A few days ago, one of the members brought up a difficult situation she's going through:
She's a member of the smallest sorority at a big state school with a large and brutally competitive Greek system. She's also overweight. The sorority's national office has given the chapter orders to double their numbers within five years—despite reassuring them only a couple of years ago that their size was not a problem. As part of this plan, a national consultant has apparently instituted an "image requirement."
The young woman in question has been asked to stay away during this fall's recruitment. She knows it's because of her weight, though they didn't tell her that in so many words. Now she's heartbroken and wondering whether she should turn in her badge. (Another active has already resigned.)
In light of a certain recent media circus, you'd think national GLOs would think twice before planting the seeds of another one ...
