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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).
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I would like to set this straight...
The biracial girl you are referring to is Christina Houston and she was one of the sisters in the chapter I advise at the University of Alabama. It was fully known by everyone in the chapter and, I am certain, everyone in every NPC chapter at UA before Christina even set foot inside her first house during Ice Water Teas, that she was biracial. We didn't think it was such a big deal that we would need to run to the press and say "WE PLEDGED A BIRACIAL WOMAN." Also, we were NOT the first sorority on the UA campus to have a biracial member. This publicity for Christina came about AFTER the Melody Twilley scandal. Someone at the University newspaper pressured Christina to do an interview in response to Melody's insistance that she was dropped from the NPC sororities because of the color of her skin. (I can also assure you that THAT is not true, but that's another story entirely.)
In that student-written newspaper article, Christina was misquoted as saying that the "n-word flew like bullets" and it sounded like she meant this happened in the sorority house or among her sisters. She was VERY upset about this after the article was printed, because she was NOT talking about the sorority, but some boys at a party she attended. This would NEVER have occurred in the sorority...the idea of that is absolutely ridiculous.
Christina later resigned from the sorority due to financial problems. I feel that the publicity that surrounded her membership may have been another reason that she felt it necessary to resign. The sisters tried everything they could to keep her as a member and were very disappointed with her resignation.
Please do not accept these rumors as fact.