There are sororities at Canadian universities as well. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraternit…

If the college you attended had selective admissions, then you are already the beneficiary of a system whose value lies in exclusivity. I think it's a bit hypocritical for the Greek system to come under fire for selectivity in its membership when it was FAR easier at my alma mater for a rushee to get a bid from a…

If the sisters leave Alabama after graduation, alumnae elsewhere almost certainly wouldn't think twice about them being non-white. Most chapters have been integrated for decades so most younger alumnae had non-white sisters themselves.

You bet I want to shelter my kids. That's why we'll be paying through the nose for private high school rather than sending them to our zoned high school.

You don't think word would get around? Maybe it's a reflection of having grown up in a small town (65 kids in my high school class), but gossip travels lightning FAST in high schools.

We don't know the friends' moms. Maybe they are single moms because of poor judgment on their part- just look at all the women involved with gang members or other criminals.

Wow. I grew up in a small town where there wasn't much going on, and there tended to be ONE girl (out of 25-30 in the class) who wound up pregnant & getting engaged/married either senior year or shortly after graduation. There were rumors of other pregnancies ending in "miscarriages" but whether the girls were ever…

The risk goes far beyond teasing. What if some creep decides that the daughter is "easy" and tries to assault her? Not trying to blame victims of sexual assault (rape is wrong and immoral regardless of the victim's sexual history) but she is at greater risk now that everyone knows she and her friends were partying…

I agree. Her daughter and her friends could absolutely be at greater risk for sexual assault now because of a perception that they're "easy". Not suggesting that their behavior in any way justifies assault (rape is immoral & criminal regardless of the victim's sexual history) but the public nature of the mom's…

I care about feminism because I don't want to live in a world where women are denied educations, careers, equal pay for equal work, and basic civil rights because of their gender. I want my daughters to have an equal shot at success as my son. I don't want to open up the news and see stories on 8 y.o. girls dying from…

A girl whom I graduated high school with experienced such awful sexual harassment at Smith from some of her classmates that she wound up transferring to an all-female Christian college to escape it. I guess the classmates thought it was fun to try and corrupt the nice Christian virgin or something.

Not all states have cheap M.B.A. programs. My husband looked into UC Berkeley's and UCLA's and they were not any cheaper than Harvard's or Stanford's.

Actually, most finance jobs require either a M.B.A. or a Chartered Financial Analyst designation. My husband says he learned more from studying for the C.F.A. exams than he did at HBS. He advises those already working in the finance industry to skip b-school and just earn the C.F.A.

Life isn't fair and attractive people typically have an advantage over unattractive ones in hiring regardless of participation in the Greek system. Do you think if sororities ceased to exist that magically the corporate world would be kinder towards homely women?

Unfortunately, at my alma mater, there isn't a lot of socioeconomic diversity so most of my classmates (Greek or unaffiliated) were upper-middle-class or affluent. The university does offer pretty generous financial aid for students from low-to-moderate incomes but it's so hard to get accepted (single digits these…

Wow. My now-DH did not make the final cut at his preferred frat despite being good friends with a bunch of the guys in the house. He was told later in confidence that it was because he was a scholarship student. But he still was able to pledge a different fraternity and was elected vice president his junior year.

One of my sorority sisters (who happens to be African-American FWIW) just landed an awesome new job through one of my other sorority sisters (who happens to be white). Many job openings don't get advertised publicly, so the only way to get considered for them is by knowing the right person.

As a DG, I have to apologize for the comments you heard. At my chapter, race/ethnicity was a non-issue in choosing new members and given that it's 2013, it shouldn't be an issue at ANY chapter.

Yes, she should be in jail for practicing medicine without a license. It's bad enough that M.D.'s are performing abortions but at least they went to medical school and did several years of training first. If she really cared about these women, she would not be giving them potentially lethal medication through the mail.

I felt ill reading the article as well. Ill that there is someone out there so blinded by ideology that she is willing to play doctor despite no medical training and give desperate women potentially lethal pharmaceuticals. I pray that nobody winds up dying as a result of her actions!