Popular Culture -- GENDER ISSUES info from a university's site
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
(Kind of) Befriending our first blog topic on MySpace...The Girls Next Door
As an addendum....to this week's scholarly topic...eh hem...
I figured I'd post my little adventures in the world of MySpace finding Kendra, Briget, and Holly (much to the confusion of my actual friends... "What is Jessie doing on MySpace befriending the playboy girlfriend trio?" Nope, I haven't (completely) lost it yet...
Here's Bridget
www.myspace.com/bunnybridget
Kendra
www.myspace.com/kendrawilkinson
& Holly (the ewok?)
www.myspace.com/hollyewok
Martha Stewart's HELL!
A NY Times Recipe:
1 Column) Restaurant Review,
1 Establishment) The Penhouse Club
(and yes, appropriately named)
2 sets of nude phots of women) Multimedia Slideshows
1) Dude who has NY Times authority to claim the steaks are the reason for his trip...mix together and (emeril-style...BAM!):
and I give you... This really relevant to class...and sadly illustrative of life....Restaurant Review of Robert's Steakhouse!
The New York Times > Robert's Steak House Restaurant Review > New York City Restaurant Reviews
If Ever there was a topic more relevant to your blogs in college...Sorority Evictions Raise Issue of Looks and Bias
GREENCASTLE, Ind. — When a psychology professor at DePauw University here surveyed students, they described one sorority as a group of “daddy’s little princesses” and another as “offbeat hippies.” The sisters of Delta Zeta were seen as “socially awkward.”
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Andrew Hancock for The New York Times
Women at DePauw University in Indiana who were either asked to leave the Delta Zeta house or resigned in protest hold a sorority photo.
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Andrew Hancock for The New York Times
Elizabeth Haneline, who was among those evicted, said, “The Greek system hasn’t changed at all, but instead of racism, it’s image now.”
Worried that a negative stereotype of the sorority was contributing to a decline in membership that had left its Greek-columned house here half empty, Delta Zeta’s national officers interviewed 35 DePauw members in November, quizzing them about their dedication to recruitment. They judged 23 of the women insufficiently committed and later told them to vacate the sorority house.
The 23 members included every woman who was overweight. They also included the only black, Korean and Vietnamese members. The dozen students allowed to stay were slender and popular with fraternity men — conventionally pretty women the sorority hoped could attract new recruits. Six of the 12 were so infuriated they quit.
“Virtually everyone who didn’t fit a certain sorority member archetype was told to leave,” said Kate Holloway, a senior who withdrew from the chapter during its reorganization.
Go to...the NY Times article for more:
Sorority Evictions Raise Issue of Looks and Bias - New York Times
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