{"id":247,"date":"2004-04-23T13:02:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-23T21:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/archives\/2004\/04\/23\/the-dark-side-of-sororities\/"},"modified":"2004-04-23T13:02:00","modified_gmt":"2004-04-23T21:02:00","slug":"the-dark-side-of-sororities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2004\/04\/23\/the-dark-side-of-sororities","title":{"rendered":"The Dark Side of Sororities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is not par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar\u00adly relat\u00aded to Stan\u00adford, but it is relat\u00aded to uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty life in gen\u00ader\u00adal. <\/p>\n<p>Alexan\u00addra Rob\u00adbins went under\u00adcov\u00ader as a soror\u00adi\u00adty girl to fig\u00adure out what life is real\u00adly like in the mod\u00adern Greek scene. She dis\u00adcov\u00adered a world of dys\u00adfunc\u00adtion, and she writes about it in her new book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/1401300464\/qid=1082753906\/sr=8-1\/ref=pd_ka_1\/103-6127370-3384645?v=glance&amp;s=books&amp;n=507846\">Pledged: The Secret Life of Soror\u00adi\u00adties<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019d like to learn more, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/4751618\/\">read an eye-open\u00ading inter\u00adview<\/a> with the author.<\/p>\n<p>Excerpt: <i><b>NEWSWEEK: Why did you go under\u00adcov\u00ader?<\/b><br>\nAlexan\u00addra Rob\u00adbins: Orig\u00adi\u00adnal\u00adly I was open\u00adly going to be a re\u00adporter in a house on a spe\u00adcif\u00adic cam\u00adpus. I had been to some meet\u00adings, and I had start\u00aded to bond with these girls. Then one day, the advis\u00ader of the soror\u00adi\u00adty sat me down and she said some\u00adthing like \u201cI can\u2019t let you be here unless the nation\u00adal office allows you, and I real\u00adly don\u2019t think they\u2019re going to.\u201d And then she said, and I\u2019ll nev\u00ader for\u00adget this: \u201cAnd if they do let you in, I sim\u00adply can\u00adnot allow you to write about the drugs.\u201d I called the nation\u00adal office, and it turned out that the 26 nation\u00adal Pan\u00adhel\u00adlenic soror\u00adi\u00adties had insti\u00adtut\u00aded a media black\u00adout because they were upset with the MTV show \u201cSoror\u00adi\u00adty Life.\u201d It turned out that the only way to get behind the scenes in a soror\u00adi\u00adty house was to fly under the radar.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is not par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar\u00adly relat\u00aded to Stan\u00adford, but it is relat\u00aded to uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty life in gen\u00ader\u00adal. Alexan\u00addra Rob\u00adbins went under\u00adcov\u00ader as a soror\u00adi\u00adty girl to fig\u00adure out what life is real\u00adly like in the mod\u00adern Greek scene. She dis\u00adcov\u00adered a world of dys\u00adfunc\u00adtion, and she writes about it in her new book Pledged: The Secret \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2004\/04\/23\/the-dark-side-of-sororities\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cThe Dark Side of Soror\u00adi\u00adties\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stanfordministry-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-3Z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}