Kudos to DePauw — Delta Zeta Dismissed
Andrew Hancock - New York Times photo
Delta Zeta sorority chapter is dismissed from DePauw University. Yes, this time, it was DePauw’s administration presenting an eviction notice to the sorority itself to vacate the house. Bitter irony!
Kudos to President Dr. Robert G. Bottoms AND to Robert P. Hershberger. We didn’t buy DZ leadership’s story, either. Thanks for calling it like it is, speaking up for today’s young women as though they were your own daughters, and keeping the good ol’ girls’ clubs in check.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/EDUCATION/03/12/troubled.sorority.ap/index.html
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How dare you. Can you not look at this photo and see that these are beautiful women? If you, the media and the university had an ounce of respect for women you would see that these are beautiful women and there was no possible way they were judged on appearance. Are you so shallow?
I certainly hope that comment is to the Delta Zeta leadership. This post is addressing DePauw’s kicking out the Delta Zeta sorority from their campus this week because these very women pictured, whom I also consider beautiful, were ousted from the sorority. I happen to wholeheartedly agree with you, Mr. Fiedler.
Yay! A sensible conclusion here! Our daughters need to be valued for other attributes than unrealistic, idealized standards of apperance. Are there no dorms for women students, aside from sorority situations, at US universities? I must be really out of the loop to ask this!
Galvanized, I’m sorry that you are missing my point. The only entities I’ve seen commenting about the appearance of these women are the media, the university and the general public. The sorority has stated that the women did not fulfill membership requirments. One day these women will have a job, and when they don’t meet the responsibilities of their job they are going to learn a hard lesson. As an employer I have heard many excuses for failing to meet goals, but “I’m not pretty enough” is a new low for society.
Ahh, I get you now. But what I find blatantly coincidental is that the eviction notices to these girls followed a definite PHENOTYPE. I would appreciate a clear definition from DZ leadership of what constitutes being “insufficiently committed” to the organization, as revealed in the interviews with members. What was specifically said by these girls in their interviews that so divided them? Like most, many of whom know those very details, I don’t buy DZ’s vague explanation.
I believe that they were kicked out because of their lack to meet the DZ standards. But, who’s to say that those standards are ethical. I’m not sure that Mr. Fielder can grasp the actions of the sorority. Since, of course, he is a man. And, has never been judge be his size of his breasts, body, or his make-up and fashion sense. DZ was wrong, the women of that sorority are preppy snobbs with, too much, of daddy’s money to buy their perfect little clothes for their perfect little body’s. The women that were kicked out , were smart, non-parting, (basically) nerds. They should never have been kicked out!!!
Are we going back in time or moving ahead with equal rights.