Just so you know.... it is my understanding that all of the inter/national sororities were told not to cooperate with the person writing the Rolling Stone article. At least the chapter of my sorority there was. The person writing the article happened to attend a meeting that the sisters were at for another campus organization and the writer wrote about them from that perspective. The women never explictly cooperated with the writer of the article but were still "featured". (On the flip side, they somehow allowed them into the house to take pictures!!) Anyway, the lesson learned from this is if you're told not to cooperate with the media, you shouldn't. And you have to all be careful about what you're saying in public and the image that leaves of someone who is Greek.
The thing that bothers me most about the article:
1) The newly initated member at the beginning of the article who states something about "alcohol always having to be a part of philanthropy". WHAT???
2) I think the writer assumes toward the end of the article that the women in the fraternity house at a party are sorority women, just because they are in a fraternity house.
If you can get a copy, its a good read on what NOT to do when national media comes around.
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