Miss America 2015

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Hazing is completely foreign to me. I certainly never saw nor experienced anything that could even remotely be construed as hazing in Chi Omega. The only thing I ever heard from any of the other NPC sororities on campus that raised some eyebrows in my pledge class was the actives of some of the other groups going through the closets of pledges and telling them what they could and could not wear. We never had any of that as we assumed that anyone we pledged already knew how to dress :-).

That a Miss America had had her pin jerked is troubling to me. Having a pin jerked by Chi Omega is a VERY serious matter. And not appearing at her Standards hearing is also disturbing. She certainly took herself out of the comity of her sisterhood and thumbed her nose at its standards. And not as a young 18 year old. Most of us here were once Seniors looking forward to the next chapters in our lives and making preparations for same. I cannot think of a single woman throwing her sisterhood under the bus.

This Miss America is not a good example for young girls, nor for Greeks.

I will have to see how she handles this. It *could* be constructive, but IMO not as long as she remains in denial about the seriousness of her behavior which resulted her sorority jerking her pin.