Dartmouth Sorority Recruitment "Spring" 2014 -- Strange Development

[OPhiAGinger]

I noticed the four of the five who issued the initial boycott message are members of local sororities. Do you think this stems from a cultural conflict between the locals and the NPC groups? For example, the "exorbitant cost of participating in the Greek system" is very subjective. If the locals had to jack up their dues to compete with the programming the NPC chapters offered, that may be why they consider those dues exhorbitant.

There's one thing that really make my frown lines deepen, though. They don't say a word about reducing programming or other activities to reduce the cost of dues. Instead, they have several suggestions about someone else picking up the cost of that programming. If they can find a rich (foolish) person who donates a ton of money to set up an endowment so these women don't have to pay their sorority dues, more power to 'em.

And this part... I don't know what to think about this. If they were found guilty of rape by a court of law, they would be in jail. I can only assume the "Committee on Standards" has a different definition of guilty, but still!...

All sex offenders found guilty of rape by the Committee On Standards must be expelled from the College immediately with absolutely no exceptions.

[DeltaBetaBaby]

Originally Posted by OPhiAGinger

And this part... I don't know what to think about this. If they were found guilty of rape by a court of law, they would be in jail. I can only assume the "Committee on Standards" has a different definition of guilty, but still!...

It's well known that the formal legal system repeatedly fails victims of rape. What's more, many universities 1) Pressure victims not to report to LE, and 2) Mishandle their internal investigations of rape.

Here's a nice read on Dartmouth:

http://jezebel.com/dartmouth-quick-t...f-ac-510282870

[exlurker]

Sorority recruitment will take place, apparently all eight sororities will participate. A couple more stories from the student paper:

http://thedartmouth.com/2014/01/14/n...lds-discussion

http://thedartmouth.com/2014/01/10/n...xec-abstention

COMMENT: Am I the only one who finds it interesting that a group of Panhellenic officers have chosen this timing to come thisclose to telling the world, “sorority life at Dartmouth is terrible” ? Well, maybe this is vaguely like the Alabama situation last fall.

Certainly Dartmouth has had more than a few troublesome experiences with sororities, as a glance at irishpipes’ list will indicate.