Adorable sorority hijinks

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<p>I knew they were white; I saw the sorority pictures.</p>

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<p>ellebud, I went to the sorority website to see what happened to the chapter. On their home page: </p>

<p>[Welcome-Miami</a> Alpha Xi Delta](<a href=“http://muohio.alphaxidelta.org/]Welcome-Miami”>http://muohio.alphaxidelta.org/)</p>

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<p>CF, where did you see the pictures? Not doubting you, but it seems the website has been carefully scrubbed.</p>

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<p>Google cache of pictures, posted upthread:</p>

<p>[Alpha</a> Xi Delta-Miami University Photos | Facebook](<a href=“http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:LdCC-wNz-a8J:www.facebook.com/pages/Oxford-OH/Alpha-Xi-Delta-Miami-University/297473096224%3Fv%3Dphotos+“miami+university”+“alpha+xi+delta”&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us]Alpha”>http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:LdCC-wNz-a8J:www.facebook.com/pages/Oxford-OH/Alpha-Xi-Delta-Miami-University/297473096224%3Fv%3Dphotos+“miami+university”+“alpha+xi+delta”&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us)</p>

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<p>Great, thank you.</p>

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<p>“Do you think video of them pouring out of the bus all drunk and sick and swearing would be a defense against a breach of contract action? (I know the one person did put a guy in a cab.)”</p>

<p>There’s no way on God’s earth that a sorority whose members were turned away from a venue due to drunkenness would file a breach of contract action. A lawsuit would require a response from the venue, on the public record, with the venue’s side of the story. For the sorority, filing suit would be the equivalent of calling the local paper and asking them to print a story about their misbehavior.</p>

<p>I agree with the position that every chapter is wildly different, and they can’t all be tarred with the same brush. But when you join a group that purports to establish a lifelong bond among its members, at a certain point you have to take the bitter with the sweet. If you share in the pride when the Pi Phi chapter – or more likely, some committed and motivated sub-group within the chapter – raises $5000 for charity, you ought to share in the shame when they behave like a bunch of nasty animals. </p>

<p>Freshmen joining a formal college group (be it frat, team, or choir) try to follow the example of upperclassmen within that group. I don’t think there’s any question that sororities and like groups end up influencing the behavior of their members more than do casual groups of friends from dorms and classes. They advertise their ability to exert a positive influence on members’ behavior (study hours, chapter GPA, philanthropy, etc.). The power to encourage bad behavior goes hand in hand with the power to encourage good. It looks to me like the Miami Pi Phi chapter had a poisonous culture, and I bet that some members would NOT have acted like such raging pigs had they not been encouraged in their pigdom by a pig culture in the chapter. Similarly, I’m sure that there are plenty nice freshmen who became fantastic seniors by emulating the upperclassmen in good chapters.</p>

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<p>Hold your breath for this one: I am so glad that there is at least one public relations major in the house because this was a carefully worded press release. Beyond that, horse poopie. </p>

<p>I firmly believe that Greek life has a lot to offer, but this is not it. Whoever the perpetrators (and I firmly believe that it was not the majority of attendees, but as with so many, a disgusting few) are/were they are getting away with it. I wish that there were active security cameras and/or photography during the event so that the pigs could have been caught.</p>

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<p>You mean you saw a few pictures on their website. You do not know how old those pictures are. You did not see who was at the party, nor who “trashed” anything. Including whether any of the “trashing” was done by any of the girls in the house.</p>

<p>Btw, I looked at those photos too, and personally, I would not be confident concluding that there are no non-white girls in that group. The third photo depicts a fair number of dark haired girls who could be of any racial heritage.</p>

<p>My assumption about CF stands.</p>

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<p>I was not in a sorority as my college did not offer them. As a newlywed, I joined the Junior League. I met many, many women that I liked and admired doing “good works”. Many of them had been active in philanthropy through their sororities. </p>

<p>My daughter joined a sorority but it is not a “top tier” one on campus. For the most part, she likes it. Within her chapter, there are sisters who drink too much and behave in a way that in later years they will regret. Within her chapter, there are young women committed to being good citizens and those are the individuals she spends her time with. The sorority is not the only thing in her life, nor is it the most important. But she wanted the leadership training and opportunities to do good things with others who care about their community.</p>

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<p>CF,</p>

<p>I also meant to ask you about this statement as well:</p>

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<p>Why did you choose mayonnaise? Is this a reference to the color of white people and/or because you think some white people like mayonniase?</p>

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<p>My daughter is in a so called “top tier” house. If you look online at her house, which is at a university with a very competitive recruitment (compared to the SEC), you will see girls of every race. Yes, there is religious diversity, but you can’t “see” that. My daughter has made friends with girls of all backgrounds, economic, religious and racial.</p>

<p>Bay, I’m with you on this one: the title, out of left field says it all.</p>

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<p>I just took a quick glance at Miami’s Common Data Set for 2009-2010. It appears that over 12,000 of the schools 14,000+ enrollment is white. Clearly not an ethnically diverse campus. </p>

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<p>My daughter’s sorority is very diverse as well, elle. She’s met a number of girls she would not have met but for the sorority.</p>

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<p>As a member of a national sorority in the 70s, I can say that we did engage in “adorable sorority hijinks.” We weren’t rich, entitled, spoiled or beautiful (okay, some were) but we were all adorable and hijinks were silly things that involved costumes and singing and scavenger hunts and blueberry crisp with real cream. We were pretty tame.</p>