Depauw's chapter of Delta Zeta, the sorority that kicked out all the women it considered not attractive enough to frat bros and not white enough, has been shut down. From the Washington Post:
DePauw University's president on Monday ordered a sorority off campus by fall after Delta Zeta kicked out nearly two dozen members and drew accusations that only attractive, popular students were asked to remain. School President Robert G. Bottoms said the values of the sorority did not fit with the 2,200-student private college in western Indiana.[...]Too bad the problem is structural and not limited to this one sorority. The Washington Post article indicates that the sorority was already labeled a "dog house" and was having trouble filling its rooms. I remember a socially responsible sorority on my campus had similar problems meeting recruitment goals and was shut down the year I graduated. It's almost like a system based on excluding others and creating rigid cool/uncool categories can't be socially progressive. Fancy that.
Bottoms said the school was unhappy with Delta Zeta's policies and actions, and with some of the postings on its Web site in response to the controversy that followed the evictions.
"I came to the conclusion that our approaches to these issues are just incompatible," he said in a news conference.
He did not elaborate on the policies with which the school disagreed.