Ugly people need not apply!

[RbSX]

Personally I think this is awesome. I think it's wrong to boot people because they simply 'arent's attractive'.. thats awfully dense.

DePauw University severs ties with sorority
Group's mass eviction of some members pointed to image discrimination
Members of the Delta Zeta sorority, near the DePauw University campus in Greencastle, Ind., recently kicked out 23 members in an incident that put the spotlight on young people's obsession with appearance.

Updated: 7:06 p.m. ET March 12, 2007
GREENCASTLE, Ind. - DePauw University?s president on Monday ordered a sorority off campus by fall after Delta Zeta kicked out nearly two dozen members and drew accusations that only attractive, popular students were asked to remain.

School President Robert G. Bottoms said the values of the sorority did not fit with the 2,200-student private college in western Indiana.

The Delta Zeta sorority has said the 23 evictions were based on the members? lack of commitment to recruiting new members. But those asked to leave have charged that they were removed because of their appearance, contending they were active and supportive members of their sorority.


Bottoms said the school was unhappy with Delta Zeta?s policies and actions, and with some of the postings on its Web site in response to the controversy that followed the evictions.

?I came to the conclusion that our approaches to these issues are just incompatible,? he said in a news conference.

He did not elaborate on the policies with which the school disagreed. The sorority had previously defended its actions on its Web site and criticized DePauw?s reaction to the issues. The Web site was not operating Monday.

Four messages left Monday for the sorority?s national president, Deborah A. Raziano, and the executive director of its national headquarters in Oxford, Ohio, were not returned.

Bottoms said in a letter delivered Monday to Raziano that beginning in the fall, the sorority would no longer be recognized as part of the Greek system at the school. He asked the sorority to leave the campus in Greencastle, 40 miles west of Indianapolis, before then.

Bottoms said the only response from the national sorority to his letter had been an e-mail from Delta Zeta?s attorney asking for the name of DePauw?s attorney.

The sorority?s members have long had a reputation as being known more for academics than partying, and their chapter was widely known among students as the ?dog house.?

The chapter started the school year with just 35 women, two-thirds empty on a campus where 70 percent of students join the Greek system.

Efforts to improve those numbers ? and, some contend, the sorority?s image ? prompted Delta Zeta?s national leadership to conduct a review to determine members? commitment to recruiting. As a result, it moved 23 members to alumnae status in December, evicting them from the sorority house. Six others left on their own.

Bottoms said of those six who remain on campus, four are seniors who will graduate this year. He said the university would help the other two women look for housing next fall.

DePauw?s decision follows a letter of reprimand sent to the national organization Feb. 19.

 

[IHateMyJob2004]

DZ was the average looking girls at my school. Nothing to brag about.

 

[RKS]

welcome to the real world...

 

[BlancoNino]

I personally don't like the idea of fraternities or sororities...don't see how it's supposed to help somebody get a better education.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Originally posted by: BlancoNino
I personally don't like the idea of fraternities or sororities...don't see how it's supposed to help somebody get a better education.

Non professional fraternities and sororities aren't formed for the purpose of getting their members a better education. They are formed to help the members form contacts (read good old boy/girl club) and to shield poor little rich kids from the responsibilities of being an adult.

 

[LS20]

N FT CHX!

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/25/educa...0ab9f8efd428&ei=5123&partner=BREITBART

get those cows outta there!

 

[b0mbrman]

Originally posted by: BlancoNino
I personally don't like the idea of fraternities or sororities...don't see how it's supposed to help somebody get a better education.

There are a million things you'll do in college that won't help you get a better education.

 

[mugs]

Hah... I read all the way to the end of the article to find out that this decision affects exactly two girls.

 

[lizardth]

At my college the DZs were every bad sorority sterotype you can think of.

 

[b0mbrman]

The chapter started the school year with just 35 women, two-thirds empty on a campus where 70 percent of students join the Greek system.

Efforts to improve those numbers....

Wait, they wanted to improve their numbers by kicking out 23 of their (no more than) 31 non-graduating members?

Methinks the reporter took a bit of artistic license with that line...

 

[thecoolnessrune]

Poor poor idiots...

Those that want to block other people because they think they are unattractive can DIAF.
Those girls that are stupid enough to get messed up because someone thinks they are ugly can DIAF.

Either way everybody involved proves to morons...

 

[sixone]

And how is that different than ATOT?

 

[erub]

every sorority does this, just most of them exclude the girls from joining in the first place..they all have big review sessions where they evaluate the girls' photos, grades, extracurriculurs during rush week

 

[ViRGE]

Originally posted by: erub
every sorority does this, just most of them exclude the girls from joining in the first place..they all have big review sessions where they evaluate the girls' photos, grades, extracurriculurs during rush week

Sure, but to kick them out in the middle of the year, on finals week, and then lie about the reasoning for the whole thing?

 

[irishScott]

You think that's bad?

There was a sorority (now banned) here at UD that paired up with a Fraternity (also banned). The sister-wannabes would be lined up, at which point they would strip naked. The guys in said frat would go around circling imperfections with a sharpie. The girls had 1 month to fix them.

Cant' say I'd mind being one of the guys, but WTF?

 

[Shawn]

Originally posted by: IHateMyJob2004
DZ was the average looking girls at my school. Nothing to brag about.

The DZ girls here are hot stuck up rich bitches. DZ is the most expensive sorority.