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JustAnotherGen

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2. It's not the students

Fri Sep 20, 2013, 10:15 AM

Sep 2013

It's not the little pups - it's the Alumni.

"The entire house wanted this girl to be in Alpha Gam," Gotz told the White. "We were just powerless over the alums."

Indeed, members of other sororities which snubbed the potential recruit repeatedly blamed alumni for the racist rejection of the super-qualified black candidate.

"If we had been able to pledge her, it would've been an honor," an active sister in the Delta Delta Delta sorority told the White. "However, our alumnae stepped in and went over us and had her dropped."

The Tri Delt insists that there would have been "a dog fight between all the sororities if she were white."

Read more: http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/358611#ixzz2fRThhLiI

These young, white women are going to get this changed. They could have remained silent - but they didn't. They spoke up - they are speaking out . . . and I suspect Ms. Gotz is a bit of hero amongst her peers for putting her neck on the line not only for them: But for the absolute BEST candidate that they ALL wanted in their sorority.

We've got to get off their backs. Seriously - we've got to. We've got to get off their backs.

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University of Alabama sororities are racist against blacks [View all] CreekDog Sep 2013 OP

Interesting. Apparently, it was the alums who MineralMan Sep 2013 #1

Then if you're in the Greek system there, get out otherwise gopiscrap Sep 2013 #31

That would be my call, too. MineralMan Sep 2013 #36

Thank you, when I first got to college I looked at the gopiscrap Sep 2013 #40

It's not the students JustAnotherGen Sep 2013 #2

So what? jberryhill Sep 2013 #3

So what? JustAnotherGen Sep 2013 #4

I am outraged at pay inequality, so are most here CreekDog Sep 2013 #7

I'm incredulous JustAnotherGen Sep 2013 #15

I just K and R'd your post. CreekDog Sep 2013 #18

"Goose stepping". Really? CreekDog Sep 2013 #22

First of all... jberryhill Sep 2013 #19

Exactly gopiscrap Sep 2013 #34

i completely agree CreekDog Sep 2013 #6

I agree gopiscrap Sep 2013 #33

it's a problem among students too, don't kid yourself CreekDog Sep 2013 #5

yup you're exactly right gopiscrap Sep 2013 #35

+1000 Sissyk Sep 2013 #8

that poster is wrong though. it is the students to some extent. CreekDog Sep 2013 #10

The poster is not wrong. It's her opinion. Sissyk Sep 2013 #14

an opinion can be wrong and hers saying that the students aren't racist is wrong CreekDog Sep 2013 #16

What? jberryhill Sep 2013 #23

Can I ask you an honest question? Sissyk Sep 2013 #24

I was responding to the person saying "It's not the students" jberryhill Sep 2013 #25

Thanks for answering me! Sissyk Sep 2013 #27

We don't know who is right or wrong. pintobean Sep 2013 #32

wait, are you saying i accused the students who have tried to change this of racism? CreekDog Sep 2013 #41

We don't know how the students voted, btw jberryhill Sep 2013 #21

Yup gopiscrap Sep 2013 #37

Why in the name of all that's sacred would a bright young person of ANY race tularetom Sep 2013 #9

Plus 10000000 JustAnotherGen Sep 2013 #12

if you want a good job right out of college ProdigalJunkMail Sep 2013 #13

Well you know the Groucho Marx theory of joining clubs tularetom Sep 2013 #26

times very much have changed ProdigalJunkMail Sep 2013 #43

OMG Yes, thank you gopiscrap Sep 2013 #38

Try to look at it as an 18 year old would, just out from their parents... CreekDog Sep 2013 #49

Good grief! HappyMe Sep 2013 #11

The Barbies! ha! I like. Sissyk Sep 2013 #17

Rosa Parks is a good example of one person stepping up. HappyMe Sep 2013 #20

good for your wife's cousin gopiscrap Sep 2013 #39

I was in an all white fraternity house... oldhippie Sep 2013 #28

Interestingly the number 1 ranked Alabama football team ... GeorgeGist Sep 2013 #29

Bear Bryant's "backdoor" method of eroding the public resistance to black players Blue_Tires Sep 2013 #42

Fucking racist assholes gopiscrap Sep 2013 #30

And malaise Sep 2013 #44

A 4.3 GPA? lumberjack_jeff Sep 2013 #45

Advanced placement and honors classes get a grade point bonus CreekDog Sep 2013 #50

Usually awarded to kids from wealthy households. I strongly disapprove of the system. NYC_SKP Sep 2013 #51

got some statistics to back that up? CreekDog Sep 2013 #52

There are no statistics. YMMV. NYC_SKP Sep 2013 #53

competition for what? CreekDog Sep 2013 #54

Competition for attention, for support, and sometimes for those extra grade points. NYC_SKP Sep 2013 #55

His Holiness, Pope Francis 1st, rumoured to be Catholic. N.T. Donald Ian Rankin Sep 2013 #46

Holy crap! treestar Sep 2013 #47

I hate sororities/fraternities. alarimer Sep 2013 #48

You could not pay me to join a sorority. Manifestor_of_Light Sep 2013 #56