Ok. I am an alumna of the Greek system at Alabama. (Actually, I am an alumna of the house Ms. Twilley was standing in front of in the picture in the Chronicle article.) I can only speak for my sorority, but I will tell you that the fact that she expected to get into the house she wanted because her daddy bought her a Jeep Grand Cherokee, then she has a problem understanding the Greek system at Alabama. In the four years I was there, no one got into my house because of the car she drove. If that was the case, I probably wouldn't have gotten in either. Close to a thousand girls Rush every year to get into one of the 15 or so sororities at Alabama. A lot of girls don't get in. Unless you were there in each house when Ms. Twilley went through, please don't assume that she didn't get in because she's African-American. Every house has different standards. Maybe some of those standards are racist, I don't know. Noone except the people sitting in the rooms at membership meetings during rush can tell you why she didn't get in. I can tell you that the Pi Beta Phi house she stood in front of did NOT drop her because she is black.
I wish her the best of luck and hope that she gets at the top of the bid list next year for whatever house she wants. But please do not judge my school, my sorority sisters, or my state based on what a couple of drunk fraternity boys said in that article. If you go looking for a drunk college kid to make an offensive statement, then yes you can find one I'm sure very easily in Gallettes. Yes, unfortunately some people were raised with the same attitudes that led to the infamous stand in the schoolhouse door. But most of the people at Alabama are good people and I'm sorry this reporter couldn't find some of them to talk to. Maybe if he looked somewhere besides the Strip he could have found someone who could sound a little bit intelligent.
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