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Originally Posted by bostongreek

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I don't know what a "Quad Flat Package" has to do with anything, but all I had to do was type in "national sorority attractive" into Google and the first result I recieved was:

http://www.buzzle.com/articles/soror...ve-enough.html

By Rich Silverman

Twenty-three members of Delta Zeta sorority at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana were told to leave the sorority because they weren’t attractive enough, according to several of the sorority’s former members.

Late last year, concerned that membership at the DePauw chapter was declining, the national leadership of Delta Zeta interviewed all its members there about their commitment to the sorority and to recruiting new members. One week before final exams, 23 members of the sorority were told that they were changed from "active" to "alumna" status, and they had to leave the sorority house. Of the remaining twelve members, six resigned from Delta Zeta in protest.

According to a New York Times story, all the members who were told to leave were overweight. The dismissed members also included all but one of the minority members of the sorority.

One of the dismissed members, Lynsay Moy, said in an appearance on ABC’s Good Morning America that they were never given a reason for the dismissals. "No one was ever given any explanation, even though several times we asked for one," she said. "You know, you pledge an organization and you fall in love with the girls that you're with and you become devoted to a sorority and then you're told you're not good enough."

Kim Lee, another Delta Zeta member forced out of the sorority, appearing on CNN's Paula Zahn Now show said, "I've done everything I was supposed to do—I'm a good student, I'm involved." About being told that everything she did wasn’t good enough, she added, "You take that really hard."

Junior Joanna Kieschnick, who resigned in protest after the "reorganization" announced by Delta Zeta, says she and her sorority sisters were told by the sorority’s national leaders, "You need to be more sexually appealing; you need to make the guys want you."

DePauw University administrators have issued a letter of reprimand to the National Office of the sorority, which will observe its 100th Anniversary at DePauw in 2009, and are deciding if they will ask the sorority to leave the DePauw entirely.

The University made immediate alternate living arrangements available to the 23 members who were told to leave the sorority house plus the six members who chose to leave. Officials have also added regulations that will require all sororities to honor their housing agreements for the full academic year.

The national leadership of the sorority, which was founded in 1902 at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, denies that it selectively terminated unattractive members. According to a statement made by Cindy Menges, Executive Director of Delta Zeta, the sorority "deeply regrets its mistakes in how it communicated membership decisions to its members at DePauw. In August, the Delta Zeta members at DePauw voted to close the chapter. DePauw University denied the closure.

"Based upon recommendations from DePauw University, Delta Zeta met with the women of the Delta Chapter at DePauw to ask who could commit to rebuilding the 98-year-old chapter. The only factor in determining who would remain an active collegiate member or become an alumna member was a commitment to recruit for the chapter. Any allegations otherwise are false."