Angelove,
I think some people are reading into stuff. Drug room gets a lot of news play, but its like three sentences in the book. A room with a bong in it where the members like to hang out and smoke is a "drug room" or could be called such.
I have been to friends' chapter houses where they were like thats the "druggie room" the room where a big stoner lives and a lot of the brothers like to go hang out.
I know enough sorority girls that smoke pot, have done ecstasy, coke etc to make it real plausible.
I know a girl that was expelled from a Florida ZTA chapter along with some of her sisters for too much partying . .. .
We have had whole threads on here discussing Shacking and girls admitting that boys could come up and shack at their houses despite the rules.
Also the bulk of the book is taken up by mixers, exchanged, candlepasses, formals, Bigs and littles. She just disparages this because she believes that sororities have created a culture that revolves around and is defined somewhat by their relationship with men. And she has a point, I just don't agree that is a bad thing.
As far as source material, her endnotes are pretty extensive.
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Originally posted by angelove
This book was selected for the May meeting of a new book club I've joined. It's sort of out of character for this group - we usually read Oprah-style novels - but the book club consists of mostly non-Greek women. (I wasn't there when the group selected it - after reading all the comments on this board, I would have vehemently objected.)
So I'm halfway through, and my husband is wondering why I keep getting so agitated reading this book. Maybe I'm just naive or things were different in the mid- to late-80's on my campus and in my chapter, but please - "Drug rooms"? Guys staying overnight? Any NPC that found out about a "drug room" (and trust me, they would find out) would yank a charter immediately. And guys couldn't get upstairs any time of the day, much less stay overnight. (My boyfriend never saw my room the three years I lived in the house.) Again, the intrachapter policing network would be reporting the offender quicker than you could blink an eye.
I think she's focusing on the scandalous parts (hey, she's got to sell books - no one would watch a show called "Having a Lovely Dinner and the City") and just skimming over the stuff that I always thought was fun - socials/mixers, candlelights, big/lil sis, etc.
I do find the dearth of footnotes and citations to other sources rather interesting. And has anyone else noticed that when she cites "studies," she cites to obscure texts or articles that are impossible to find, even on the internet?
I am looking forward to correcting all of her errors for the non-Greeks at my book club.
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