![]() ![]() ![]() A friend could just as easily been lost to another campus organization. Sororities as well as any campus group can have negative or positive influence. That friend made a choice to enter a group of friends and furthermore to align herself with the women of that group. Lastly, the idea of "losing a friend to a sorority" is preposterous. If a sorority chapter cannot establish sisterhood without degrading their new members, then there are larger problems for that chapter and it most certainly should be closed. I find it sad that some women see it fit to use a great organization such as Tri-Sigma as an excuse for debauchery, promiscuity, and shameless displays of power (ie. This is done in an effort to distance ourselves from hazing in all respects. We don't even use the language that is often associated with hazing in Greek life. I was neither hazed as a new member nor have I hazed new members. I know that my chapter does not haze in the least. I hope they have learned a lesson-and not just the one about getting caught. So even though I do feel bad for the women in that house who were abiding by the rules, I don't feel an ounce for the women who were mistreating their "sisters". I could go on and on about women dumbing themselves 's a real shame. Who calls other women names like that.just for fun? And better yet, who would allow themselves to be called that? And man, no one would have ever called me stupid or slutty.I think most of my friends would've walked out of a house like that and turned them in to Panhellenic. Did we break some of them? Sure, but nothing that bad. We were told the rules and were expected to follow them. We were expected to get good grades, and we were expected to be involved on campus. As new members, we would get gifts from the older girls who wanted to welcome us into the home. I don't publicize it, but I was in a sorority at KU, and it was a great experience. There are good, no great, sororities out there with very intelligent women who would not subject their new members to this kind of treatment. It sounds cheesy, but it's true.Īnother thing that bothers me.is that this is still the perception that many people have of fraternities and sororities. Believe it or not, for a few years I had dreams about us making up and being friends again. So, my personal feelings are that Tri-Sigma, in a sense, changed my dear friend. I'm usually pretty cool about stupid stuff like that, but I had just had it with all of her uber sorority-ness. My best friend of, um, oh, 14 years, laughed it off and joked about it.said nothing in my defense.or ever mentioned it again. I may not have even washed my hands, which, if you know me, means ALOT. The next morning, all of her sorority sisters met in the bathroom to talk about their previous night (they went to a cool Sig Ep party.while we were losers and hung out with some of our other high school friends.) Anyway, I remember one of her stupid friends saying, "God, I'm so hungover right now.I mean look at me! I have Chinese eyes!" (and she made that awesome squinty-face while saying it.) I was just walking out of the stall, and kept walking. We went out, did things that stupid college kids do, and then went back to her dorm. So one weekend I drove from Lawrence to Springfield to visit. To each their own, right? At least that's what I thought at 19, afterall, this was my BFF. "Drink bi*&^!!!" and stuff like that.Īnd when I asked her, "Don't you think that's degrading?" She said "NO! I can't wait to do it to the little bi%^&es next year!" Seriously? WTF? I never got that since the girls who were yelling were the ones dressed like skanks, but oh well. When they arrived, the older girls came down the stairs in really skimpy lingerie (sounds like a movie, right?!) Then the older girls got in each of the pledge's faces and started yelling things like "whore!" "slut!" for a few minutes to get a reaction from them. She said that one time the older girls invited the new pledge class over to the house. ![]() I mean she bled purple, y'all! And P.S., I hope she never reads this.Īnyway, she told me so many stories about what she did as a new member of that house. She loved the sorority so much-it was like, the ultimate. My best friend from kindergarten to high school pledged Sigma Sigma Sigma at Southwest Missouri State. It just so happens that I have my own Springfield Tri-Sigma story. The chapter got in trouble for apparently playing drinking games, leaving blindfolded women in a cemetery, and forcing a woman to get an application from a strip club, as the News-Leader reports. What an amazing shock to the young women who pledged and were looking forward to spending four years of sisterly love under one roof, bleh. As many people know, Sigma Sigma Sigma at MSU has been disbanded by its national council for hazing. ![]()
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