Sororities and Race?

momreads
Sun, 16 Jun 2013 19:39:36 +0000

My son was in an integrated fraternity at UA, and he’s told me about the race relations issues in Greek life. One Panhellenic sorority (Sigma Delta Tau) is integrated completely. Many members of other sororities would love to institute a race-blind selection process. However, often alumnae influence the rush process in a manner that makes this, unfortunately, impossible. There are often rumors of sororities planning on bucking the alumni to break the race barrier which have been escalating especially recently. It certainly wouldn’t hurt to rush.

As for that article, my son tells me that it led to some pretty terrible consequences for Gamma Phi Beta from fraternities. They currently have no African American sisters in the chapter.