Sorority Life

So I came across this story on CNN.com today that made me a little angry. I watched a 3 min story clip about a sorority at Depauw University in Indiana. 23 Delta Zeta sorority members were asked to move out of their campus sorority house by the leaders of their national chapter. The national chapter claimed that these 23 members were being asked to move out due to lack of recruitment. All 23 members claim that they were asked to leave due to their physical appearance, saying that the prettier, more slender girls were the ones who got to stay. The links below will give you access to the story on CNN and also to the comments about the incident found on the University's website.

http://www.cnn.com/video/partners/clickability/index.html?url=/video/us/2007/02/27/oppenheim.sorority.eviction.cnn

http://www.depauw.edu/news/index.asp?id=18984

I just think things like this are so sad. After watching the video, my heart went out to these girls. One of them was crying and it made me feel awful. The one comment made that I think will stay with me forever was "Image is the new racism of sorts." And sadly, in today's society, I can see a lot of truth in that statement. People are now being discreminated against due to their general physical appearance and whether or not their appearance meets certain standards set by our society. With stories like this in our nation's news and with television shows like "The Swan" that take "ugly" people and perform a bunch of free plastic surgery on them to make them "beautiful", it is no wonder people behave this way. I just think the emphasis on physical appearance in our society just keeps getting worse and worse. I hope that stories like this one about the Delta Zeta sorority open people's eyes to this problem. I do not see a solution in sight, and if you do, please enlighten me. I just hope those leaders in the national chapter see these poor girls crying on tv and feel guilty about what they have done. End rambling for the day...