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I agree with you to some extent and that's why I put the phrase in quotes (because I'm not sure if her intent was to "pass" or not). Nevertheless, from the articles I read, it sounded like her house didn't know she was biracial until the Melody Twilley controversy (a year after she rushed) and that is plenty of time for her house to learn that she was biracial . . . but they never did. Clearly that means that they never met her parents, that she never spoke of her background (there are plenty of chances for it to come up -- a sister says, "Oh, you're so tan!" when in reality you're half black, you'd probably mention that to her, right?), she never corrected them on their use of the n-word (I can't imagine having a black parent or grandparent, being considered black by some people, and still being okay with the fact that some of my sisters were calling people n*****s in front of me). All of that leads me to believe that she was trying to hide that part of her for at least a little while, or at least in front of some of her sisters.
I can see not mentioning your heritage during rush if it doesn't come up, but to not mention it during an entire YEAR sounds quite a bit more sketchy to me.
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