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Beginning at the college of William and Mary in the year of American Independence, Phi Beta Kappa, the student debating society, was formed, designed not to be secret and select, as previous societies had been, but "more serious-minded". At the request of the Society, Richard Current has written a full-scale history of Phi Beta Kappa and its influence on American academic life.
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• Introduction : life at Greek University
• Understanding gender
• Studs and virgins
• The tough guy and his date (rape)
• Her laxatives, his steroids
• Bros before hos
• Soccer moms and corporate dads
• Cleaning up after the party.

One in ten American college students joins a fraternity or sorority, and Greek social organizations produce a disproportionately large percentage of power brokers in business and politics. Statistics show that while these future leaders are on campus, they are much more likely than non-Greek students to engage in binge drinking and to be either the perpetrators or victims of sexual assault. In "Inside Greek U.", Alan D. DeSantis takes an in-depth look at the lessons that Greek organizations teach their members about gender, drawing on evidence gathered in hundreds of focus-group sessions and personal interviews and from his years of experience as a Greek faculty advisor. "Inside Greek U." reveals a culture that imbues its members with the sense that "real men" must be unemotional, promiscuous, violent, and aggressively masculine, while "nice girls" should be nurturing, passive, domestic, and purely feminine. These rigid formulations contribute to maladaptive behaviors and beliefs, such as eating disorders, body image distortions, homophobia, and date rape and other sexual misconduct. "Inside Greek U." aims to reform the Greek system rather than eliminate it or sanction contempt for its members. DeSantis identifies narrow definitions of gender that impede Greek students' intellectual and emotional development and seeks to broaden these definitions, thereby expanding the range of acceptable choices available to fraternity and sorority members before and after graduation.
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• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• List of Illustrations
• List of Referenced Sororities and Fraternities
• Introduction Where Y'all Does Not Mean All
• CHAPTER ONE ""A Very Wholesome Discipline"" From Girlhood to Ladyhood in the Southern Sorority Chapter
• CHAPTER TWO ""A Laboratory in How to Get Along with People"" Selling Sororities through Social Education
• CHAPTER THREE Southern Belles and Sororit yGirls Sororities and the Lure of the Southern Aesthetic

• CHAPTER FOUR Standardizing Sexu ality Heterosocializing and Sexual Danger in Sorority Life
• CHAPTER FIVE ""The Chosen Are Happy, the Rest Are Crushe d"" Using Rush to Define the Membership
• CHAPTER SIX ""To Discriminate Is a Positive Trait"" The NPC, ""Freedom of Association, "" and the Modern Conservative Movement
• CHAPTER SEVEN ""Inequality for All and Mint Juleps, Too"" Reinforcing the Sorority Woman as Southern Lady
• CONCLUSION An Alpha Phi-asco and Other Peculiar Institutions
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index
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• D
• E
• F
• G
• H
• I
• J
• K
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"Women of Discriminating Taste examines the role of historically white sororities in the shaping of white womanhood in the twentieth century. As national women's organizations, sororities have long held power on college campuses and in American life. Yet the groups also have always been conservative in nature and inherently discriminatory, selecting new members on the basis of social class, religion, race, or physical attractiveness. In the early twentieth century, sororities filled a niche on campuses as they purported to prepare college women for "ladyhood." Sorority training led members to comport themselves as hyperfeminine, heterosocially inclined, traditionally minded women following a model largely premised on the mythical image of the southern lady. Although many sororities were founded at non-southern schools and also maintained membership strongholds in many non-southern states, the groups adhered to a decidedly southern aesthetic-a modernized version of Lost Cause ideology-in their social training to deploy a conservative agenda. Margaret L. Freeman researched sorority archives, sorority-related materials in student organizations, as well as dean of women's, student affairs, and president's office records collections for historical data that show how white southerners repeatedly called upon the image of the southern lady to support southern racial hierarchies. Her research also demonstrates how this image could be easily exported for similar uses in other areas of the United States that shared white southerners' concerns over changing social demographics and racial discord. By revealing national sororities as significant players in the grassroots conservative movement of the twentieth century, Freeman illuminates the history of contemporary sororities' difficult campus relationships and their continuing legacy of discriminatory behavior and conservative rhetoric"-- Provided by publisher.

"Women of Discriminating Taste examines the role of historically white sororities in the shaping of white womanhood in the twentieth century. As national women's organizations, sororities have long held power on college campuses and in American life. Yet the groups also have always been conservative in nature and inherently discriminatory, selecting new members on the basis of social class, religion, race, or physical attractiveness. In the early twentieth century, sororities filled a niche on campuses as they purported to prepare college women for "ladyhood." Sorority training led members to comport themselves as hyperfeminine, heterosocially inclined, traditionally minded women following a model largely premised on the mythical image of the southern lady. Although many sororities were founded at non-southern schools and also maintained membership strongholds in many non-southern states, the groups adhered to a decidedly southern aesthetic-a modernized version of Lost Cause ideology-in their social training to deploy a conservative agenda. Margaret L. Freeman researched sorority archives, sorority-related materials in student organizations, as well as dean of women's, student affairs, and president's office records collections for historical data that show how white southerners repeatedly called upon the image of the southern lady to support southern racial hierarchies. Her research also demonstrates how this image could be easily exported for similar uses in other areas of the United States that shared white southerners' concerns over changing social demographics and racial discord. By revealing national sororities as significant players in the grassroots conservative movement of the twentieth century, Freeman illuminates the history of contemporary sororities' difficult campus relationships and their continuing legacy of discriminatory behavior and conservative rhetoric"-- Provided by publisher

The highly acclaimed author of When and Where I Enter has written the history of the largest black women's organization in the United States, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority--a book that also tells of the increasing involvement of black women in the political, social, and economic affairs of America. Photos.
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• Part one. Vice
• Drinking games
• Broken pledges
• Sexual assault expected
• The SAE law
• Part two. Legacy
• Sing, brothers, sing
• Discriminating gentlement
• Old Row
• Part three. Rebirth
• the phoenix
• The lions
• Conclusion.

"College fraternity culture has never been more embattled. Once a mainstay of campus life, fraternities are now subject to withering criticism for reinforcing white male privilege and undermining the lasting social and economic value of a college education. No fraternity embodies this problem more than Sigma Alpha Epsilon, a national organization with more than 15,000 undergraduate brothers spread over 230 chapters nationwide. While SAE enrollment is still strong, it has been pilloried for what John Hechinger calls "the unholy trinity of fraternity life": racism, deadly drinking, and misogyny. Hazing rituals have killed ten undergraduates in its chapters since 2005, and, in 2015, a video of a racist chant breaking out among its Oklahoma University members went viral. That same year, SAE was singled out by a documentary on campus rape, The Hunting Ground. Yet despite these problems and others, SAE remains a large institution with strong ties to Wall Street and significant political reach. In True Gentlemen, Hechinger embarks on a deep investigation of SAE and fraternity culture generally, exposing the vast gulf between its founding ideals and the realities of its impact on colleges and the world at large. He shows how national fraternities are reacting to a slowly dawning new reality, and asks what the rest of us should do about it. Should we ban them outright, or will they only be driven underground? Can an institution this broken be saved? With rare access and skillful storytelling, Hechinger draws a fascinating and necessary portrait of an institution in deep need of reform, and makes a case for how it can happen"-- Provided by publisher.

• Preface to the Second Edition: Black Haze Revisited; Preface to the First Edition; Chapter One: Hazing Then and Now; Concern, Change, and Questions; The Influence of the Ancient and Modern Worlds on Black Greek Violence; Falsehoods and Failure: The Epistemic Domino Effect and Ethics in Greekdom; Chapter Two: Men, Media, and Movements; Habermas, the Public Sphere, and a Critical Approach to the Media; Problems with Habermas; BGFs, Social Movements, and Identity; The Politics of Personal Involvement: Gazing through Fraternity Men's Eyes.

• Chapter Three: The History of Black Greek-Letter FraternitiesAmerican Greek-Letter Fraternalism; Black Entrance into American College Life; The Exclusion of Blacks from White Greek Life; The Founding of Black Greek-letter Fraternities; Alpha Phi Alpha; Kappa Alpha Psi; Omega Psi Phi; Phi Beta Sigma; Iota Phi Theta; BGF's Political Involvement; The Depoliticization of BGFs; Chapter Four: The Pledge Process as Sacrifice; Violence Vehicles: Rituals as Social Stabilizers; The Commonalities of Modern Fraternity Ritual; Hazing and the Symbolic Journey.

• The Lure of Liminality: The Ritualistic Remaking of the SelfChapter Five: The Hegemonic Struggle and Domination in Black Greek-Letter Fraternities; Violence, Power, Hegemony, and Domination; Educated Gangs? To Pledge or Not to Pledge; Conservatism and Domination; BGF Ruling Blocs and the Membership Intake Epidemic; Chapter Six: Acceptance, Freedom, and Identity Construction In Black Greek-Letter Fraternities; Formations of the Black Male Self; Economic Anxiety; Black Identity Fragmentation; The Self, Selves, and the Victory of Consent; Akrasia and Choice; Substitution of the Fraternal Self.

• Chapter Seven: Beyond the Fraternal SelfAfterword: Reflections On Failure; For Reputation and Revenue: The Champion and Sandusky Failures; The Organizational Bottom Line; The If Indictment; Acknowledgments; Appendix; 1970s; 1980s; 1990s; 2000s; 2010s; Notes; Bibliography; Books; Book chapters, reports, and scholarly journal, Magazine, and newspaper articles; Index.

Are black men naturally violent? Do they define manhood in the same way as their counterparts across lines of race? Are black Greek-letter fraternities among the most dangerous student organizations on American college and university campuses? Can their often-dangerous initiation processes be stopped or even modified and, if not, what should be done about them? In this second edition of Black Haze, Ricky L. Jones takes on these questions and more. The first edition was an enlightening and sometimes disturbing examination of American men's quest for acceptance, comfort, reaffirmation, and manhood in a world where their footing is often unstable. In this new edition Jones not only provides masterful philosophical and ethical analyses but he also forces the engagement ofa terrifying real world process that damages and kills students with all too frequent regularity. With a revealing new preface and stunning afterword, Jones immerses the reader in an intriguing and dark world marked by hypermasculinity, unapologetic brutality, and sometimes death. He offers a compelling book that ranges well beyond the subject of hazing - one that yields perplexing questions and demands difficult choices as we move foreword in addressing issues surrounding fraternities, violent hazing, black men, and American society. -- from back cover.