Shameful Greeks

So I recently came upon an article on bannedinhollywood.com, about a Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority and their new rush t-shirts. I encourage you to read the story, but if you don’t here is a very brief synopsis. So, Bruce Ivins, guy who sent anthrax to political leaders and news stations in 2001, was apparently obsessed with the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority chapter at Princeton. The Kappa chapter at UCLA caught on to this and decided that it would be a good idea to create a rush shirt saying “At Kappa, We Drive Men Crazy”.

What the shirt says is not what makes me so upset, what the chapter’s president says about the shirt is what makes me so upset. The chapter president, Lauren Richards, says “To me, this just proves the elite status that Kappa carries nationally. Potential rushees should feel proud that he believed us [to be] important enough to associate with. There’s untapped potential with being a sister of Kappa Kappa Gamma.” UNTAPPED POTENTIAL?! Are you freaking kidding me? I don’t see any positives in being associated with a psychopathic terrorist who ended up committing suicide. 

Maybe it is due to the fact that at my Sigma Chi chapter we tried hard to maintain a positive public image that this bothers me so much. It truly shows just how changing stereotypes of the greek system is an uphill battle, and as long as people like this draw attention to their chapters for all the wrong reasons it will be impossible to change. I am proud to be a Greek, but I am disappointed in how some Greeks do not live up to values and ideals that they claim they do