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Here we go again
By Joshua McCracken
Every girl who was kicked out of the house was what most would call â??socially awkward.â?
This is sure to become a huge story and a testament to our beauty-obsessed culture. Twenty-three students at DePauw University of Greencastle, Ind., were asked to leave their sorority after an interview process deemed them unfit for membership.
Doesnt sound so bad, right?
Wrong. Every girl who was kicked out of the house was what most would call socially awkward. The house is now officially as white and pretty as the driven snow. When the dust settled only 12 of the girls were left standing, six of whom quit out of frustration with the Delta Zeta organization for being so intolerant.
For years I have laughed at the people who rush sororities and fraternities, only because I feel that it is a horrible and cruel way to weed out the socially acceptable from the ones who may not fit into a cookie-cutter mold.
However my disgust never had as much justification as it does now. Ill grant you, I have not taken the time to wander around the UWM Greek houses to do a head count on just how many people fit societys standard of perfect and how many may need a little work.
So is this what our society does now? Suddenly being intelligent and not looking like a model is grounds for dismissal from a social organization? Thats absolutely horrible. Nobody has the right to pass judgment on anyone else based only on looks, and a national organization like Delta Zeta should know better.
Having gone to a couple of their parties when I was still living in Indiana, I felt a bit more at ease there knowing that not every single person there fit the stereotypical air-headed blonde image that many have in their heads of sorority girls.
The evicted women are not perfect, at least not by sorority standards. In addition to the overweight and plain-looking girls, every single minority was asked to leave. Black, Korean and Vietnamese women were told that if they do not fit the blonde-haired, blue-eyed mold then they must go.
So what prompted this decision, you may ask? A survey. Thats right, a survey in which a group went around asking students about their perception of sororities on the DePauw campus.
Delta Zeta apparently was composed of the socially awkward, and so in a panic the organization got rid of everyone who fit that image. The house was already half empty, and now there are only six members still living there.
In light of the controversy that is bound to brew over this decision I dont think Delta Zeta can expect a jump in pledges next year.
Its time that people started putting their money where their mouth is. If youre not a size 2, dont cry about it because its who you are and you shouldnt feel forced to adhere to a ridiculous standard of beauty or intelligence because society still looks down on women who dont fit into it.
Its caused way too much damage already, and the only way that society will change is if the people who comprise it are willing to change too. You are not somehow defective if you cant fit into Kate Moss jeans, and dont let anybody tell you otherwise, because if they do theyre just as narrow-minded and disgusting as the morons who evicted the Delta Zeta girls.
Nobody deserves to feel bad about themselves over another persons viewpoint, especially a viewpoint that should have gone the way of the Dodo bird a very, very long time ago. If you go to the gym to trim off a couple extra calories, by all means do it and be happy, but do it because you want to do it, not because your boyfriend refuses to go down on you if there is a little extra just above your pubic hair.
Yes, Im angry. Yes, Im disgusted, and yes I am very, very sad about this. Bright women are what the world, especially the United States, needs more than anything, not a bunch of weight-obsessed, neurotic bimbos who freak out if they eat something with more than 10 calories in it.
Its time for a change.
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