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Saija Grzegorek
Rachel was a Sigma Kappa at Michigan State University. She lived in the house for two years, was the vice president of membership (aka VPM, aka the person who runs the house's recruitment), won best recruitment at MSU's Greek Leadership Awards in 2007, and brought in future Miss America Nina Davuluri. She also got caught by the "House Mom" having sex in the house on formal night her senior year and was sent to Standards a week before graduation. She has yet to do her community service. :(
Mmkay, it all starts with the rule that prohibits bid promising, which is any kind of behavior that implies a liiiiitle too much interest on the sorority's behalf, makes a PNM think she'll definitely get a bid (a formal invitation to join the sorority), and encourages her to rank that house higher on her list. If she gets cut after you swore she had a spot, it's going to look pretty bad. And if other PNMs see you fawning over other girls and not them, they are going to feel bad or unwelcome, rank your house lower, and/or talk shit about you (and sororities in general).
They practice! Recruitment practices typically start the week before school begins, and each session may run 6 to 8 hours. It sounds wild, but there's actually a lot to cover. There are meetings in which the VPM goes over any major rules and requirements and also tons of details that sound ridiculous/insignificant to outsiders, but matter a great deal (because of the aforementioned fines). Some sororities also have to plan skits and songs to perform; these songs are often Top 40 or nostalgic hits with the sorority name squeezed in, which is exactly as stilted and forced as it sounds. They'll also probably spend an entire day going over how to line up at the door/on the stairs properly, and working on their door chants. (And they are often doing this in August, in a 100-year-old house without AC.) It's...a lot.
Basically, sorority members at each house are divided into small "bump groups," and all members of the bump group will talk to the same PNMs during a party. The bump groups are predetermined by the VPM, and designed so that each PNM meets a range of personality types from the house. While it may seem creepy and calculated, it's actually a pretty genius and effective way of talking to a large group of people in a short amount of time, and it ensures that the PNMs will never get stranded or feel left out.
And that, my friends, is how bumping is done. It's meant to seem very seamless and casual, and when it's properly executed, it leaves the PNMs in awe of how easy it was to talk to so many people. It's actually sort of amazing how many PNMs don't realize how it works until they are on the other side of it the following year.
So, that is known as a "door stack" and it's apparently been around for decades. Sororities and fraternities have a long history of courting each other through silly songs about how awesome their house is and how much they adore the objects of their song, and it has evolved into a thing where the girls sing to court new members, which is actually kind of cute (in theory).
USC's Panhel banned the practice in 2014 because apparently a lot of door stacks involve excessive head bobbing, and girls were smacking their heads into each other's and/or hitting the door frames and getting concussions. \_(ツ)_/
We could honestly talk about this for hours, but for now we'll just say that racism in the US is always a potential problem, especially when it comes to institutions that were founded on exclusivity and elitism.
Honestly...that's fair. Capitalism and the patriarchy have created some pretty problematic and hard-to-defend institutions that still bring the people involved a lot of joy and satisfaction and change their lives for the better. (We're lookin' at you, NCAA and NFL!) Greek letter organizations absolutely fall into this category.
We're not going to brush real problems like binge-drinking, sexual assault, racism, and eating disorders under the rug. What we can tell you is that these problems are pretty similar to what you'd experience/expect on a college campus. Greek life is definitely a factor (again, DOTS), but rarely is it the dramatic den of iniquity you see on Law & Order: SVU; it's just that the boring, day-to-day experience of mostly normal people isn't what makes the news, or what becomes the stuff of urban legend. Sororities and fraternities absolutely shoulder some of the blame for these problems (particularly those related to hazing, a practice that is truly indefensible), but if you think that it's the only facilitator of binge-drinking, sexual assault, and racism on college campuses, boy, do we have some bad news for you. There is a lot of work to be done by a lot of organizations.
Jokes aside, there are some incredibly fulfilling aspects of being in a sorority: Lifelong friendships, leadership opportunities, and...oh god, I sound like a pamphlet, don't I? But the truth is, if we hadn't been in sororities in college, we would have still found a way to make friends to study and hang out with and be drunk and slutty with. Life finds a way! Joining a sorority isn't for everyone, and the entire point of recruitment is to figure out if it's right for you.
After a months-long investigation into hazing allegations, the University of Kentucky fired the coaching staff of its award-winning cheer program and turned management of the team over to the athletics department.
After the conversation with the reporting parent, interim measures were put in place, including assigning a non-coach chaperone to trips, prohibiting coaches from traveling with the team and directing Williamson not to contact the team. Between the initial complaint on Feb. 3 and the final day of in-person instruction before COVID-19 closures, the cheer team continued to appear at events including eight home basketball games.
Those investigations concluded that hazing took place at a Universal Cheerleaders Association camp where squad members learned and recited a lewd chant. UCA is the cheer organization that UK competes in for national titles.
Clan owns Cheer Expert, a company that runs cheer clinics and camps. The summary report said cheerleaders worked for Cheer Expert and may inferred that they had to do so to try out for the UK cheer squad.
Since the announcement of the firings, former and current UK cheerleaders have taken to social media to express their disagreement with the decision, sharing personal statements about the effect Thompson and his staff have had on their lives. Many of those who have spoken up do not believe the staff should have taken the fall for the choices of the cheerleaders.
However, in the investigation reports, two assistant coaches and Williamson said they were aware of topless basket tosses and the coaching staff confirmed they knew about the lewd chant from when they were students in the program.
The Office of Student Conduct began investigating hazing on March 12, two days after the OIEEO identified two students who affirmed the hazing behavior that was initially reported in the course of its interviews.
Most of the allegations concerned the retreat at Lake Cumberland, an annual event held before the fall semester for team bonding. The OIEEO report summarizes these incidents in five categories: alcohol, alcohol on boats owned/rented by alumni, nudity on the boats, basket tosses and skinny dipping.
To correct the lax oversight, management of the cheer program was turned over to the athletics department. Athletics Director Mitch Barnhart appointed Sandy Bell, executive associate athletics director, to oversee the program and hire a new coaching staff.
Blackwell said students will compete as normal and compete for program spots as normal. At the press conference, Blackwell said the university was implementing all the recommendations from the Office of Student Conduct Report, which listed eight steps:
2. All outside income opportunities for cheerleading coaches, including graduate assistant coaches, will be reviewed in advance through established University and Athletics Department protocols for potential or actual conflicts of interest.
6. Access will be provided to ongoing programming from the Office of Institutional Equity and Equal Opportunity and hazing prevention resources from Student and Academic Life on campus for all cheerleaders. All members of the cheerleading team will be required to attend such programming annually.
When UK announced the hazing investigation and firings on Monday, May 18, UK public relations also published 11 documents related to the investigation on a dedicated webpage. Eight of the files were letters sent to coaching staff and advisers at the conclusion of the investigation.
Investigation Summary of Allegations regarding UK Cheerleading Team was finalized on May 17. This document summarizes the investigation conducted by the Office of Institutional Equity and Equal Opportunity, which in the course of its interviews found information that falls under the authority of the Office of Student Conduct and Office of Internal Audit.
The main focus of the report was if coaches knew about the activities that were confirmed by cheerleader interviews: topless or bottom-less basket tosses at the team retreat and nudity on boats provided by alumni.
The reports conclude that there is insufficient evidence that coaches knew or should have known about the initiation chant at the UCA camp and nudity on boats at the retreat, but that they knew or should have reasonably known about the nude basket tosses.
The Student Conduct report was finalized on May 18 and tracks the investigation done by the Office of Student Conduct. This document includes statements from 54 witnesses interviewed by the Office of Student Conduct or OIEEO.
This report was the basis of the details used to corroborate the allegations made by the initial reporting party. The content of the witness interviews was used in the final summary report from both the OOIEEO and Office of Student Conduct to make general statements about what had happened at the team events.
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