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While there is a lot of good happening in the sorority system, there are clearly very serious challenges that are taking over.
Pledged does a decent (if tongue-in-cheek) job in addressing these. I encourage all Panhellenic women to read this book, and discuss it with their chapters as a means to develop ways to deal with the continuing issues of eating disorders, date rape, substance abuse, bullying and other destructive behaviors. NPC and ADPi have wonderful workshops that outline these abuses and how to prevent them, and it is vital for collegiate women to support these programs and make a dent in such serious obstacles to our individual and group development.
Whether or not these things happen at your chapter, whether you are an alumna or a collegian, whether you were an active member for 4 years or 4 months, these problems do exist in the sorority system. Regardless of her research methods, Alexandra Robbins has painted a picture of Greek Life on a southern campus in the 2000's. Let's do something constructive about those problems and help ourselves.
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