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Delta Chi T-shirt offends parts of Greek community
Laura Bryant
Issue date: 11/6/07 Section: Campus
According to Rebecca Bailey; president of the Kappa Delta chapter at Miami, a sorority that worked on a philanthropy with Delta Chi for the first time last year; at least 90 percent of the members of Kappa Delta signed a petition asking Delta Chi to no longer wear the shirt and stating some form of proper action was needed in response.
"We decided not to invite Delta Chi to help us with the philanthropy … before their shirts came out, but once I learned about the shirts it definitely reinforced the decision not to help us," Bailey said.
According to Dickerson, sororities have been given the opportunity to sign a letter to voice how they feel about the message of the shirts.
"The Panhellenic Standards Board is working on a collective response to the shirts by bringing the Panhellenic community together to voice the community's opinion," Dickerson said via e-mail. "We offered women in our chapters the opportunity to sign a letter explaining discomfort and disappointment in the message of the shirts. We hope this will explain our frustration with these recruitment T-shirts and work as a mechanism for women who feel marginalized or insulted to voice their opinion."
Gamma Phi Beta has signed a petition concerning the shirts, according to Katherine Ruhl, president of the Miami chapter.
"We previously thought really highly of Delta Chi … we were just really shocked they would have a shirt that had such an offensive slogan on it," Ruhl said.
According to Ruhl, Gamma Phi Beta is more concerned with how the shirts reflect on the Greek community.
"The Greek community has been working really hard on being an all inclusive environment," she said. "I think that the shirt is offensive to a lot of people and just reflects poorly on the Greek community as a whole."
Ruhl said she does recognize that not all members of Delta Chi were in favor of the shirts.
"The actions of a few people have consequences for a lot of people," Ruhl said. "I have no doubt that this wasn't a decision made by the whole of Delta Chi. Things like this don't reflect the views of everyone in their chapter."
DePina has asked the members of Delta Chi to no longer wear
the shirts.
"If anyone was offended by the shirts, we apologize," he said.
"We decided not to invite Delta Chi to help us with the philanthropy … before their shirts came out, but once I learned about the shirts it definitely reinforced the decision not to help us," Bailey said.
According to Dickerson, sororities have been given the opportunity to sign a letter to voice how they feel about the message of the shirts.
"The Panhellenic Standards Board is working on a collective response to the shirts by bringing the Panhellenic community together to voice the community's opinion," Dickerson said via e-mail. "We offered women in our chapters the opportunity to sign a letter explaining discomfort and disappointment in the message of the shirts. We hope this will explain our frustration with these recruitment T-shirts and work as a mechanism for women who feel marginalized or insulted to voice their opinion."
Gamma Phi Beta has signed a petition concerning the shirts, according to Katherine Ruhl, president of the Miami chapter.
"We previously thought really highly of Delta Chi … we were just really shocked they would have a shirt that had such an offensive slogan on it," Ruhl said.
According to Ruhl, Gamma Phi Beta is more concerned with how the shirts reflect on the Greek community.
"The Greek community has been working really hard on being an all inclusive environment," she said. "I think that the shirt is offensive to a lot of people and just reflects poorly on the Greek community as a whole."
Ruhl said she does recognize that not all members of Delta Chi were in favor of the shirts.
"The actions of a few people have consequences for a lot of people," Ruhl said. "I have no doubt that this wasn't a decision made by the whole of Delta Chi. Things like this don't reflect the views of everyone in their chapter."
DePina has asked the members of Delta Chi to no longer wear
the shirts.
"If anyone was offended by the shirts, we apologize," he said.
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Jason L
posted 11/06/07 @ 7:58 PM EST
Frats are so gay.
Bunch of Douche Bags.
Josh W.
posted 11/06/07 @ 10:41 PM EST
First off, "Frat's" are not gay so dont speak on something you obviously know nothing about! 90% of the time it is people like you who give fraternities a bad name and not the members. (Continued…)
John L
posted 11/07/07 @ 8:19 PM EST
Most hilarous thing ever. Whatever happened to the "boys will be boys" mentality?
Alum
posted 11/09/07 @ 10:16 AM EST
Mother Miami has become quite the 'cradle of oversensitivity' as of late. As a past member of a fraternity in Oxford, I can relate to the desire of fraternity members to stand out during recruitment and even to appear with a bit of humor. (Continued…)
Rusty
posted 11/09/07 @ 10:28 AM EST
Beat it Nerds!
Matt
posted 11/09/07 @ 12:46 PM EST
The whole greek system is a selective process where fraternities and sororities have standards in picking their members. So is it really wrong to continue this mentality and be selective when taking a member of the opposite sex home? If a shirt that pointed out flaws in other attributes of women, would it, too, be ridiculed? I doubt it. (Continued…)
Jon
posted 11/11/07 @ 12:04 AM EST
Miami: a university you have to pay up the butt prices to attend. Since it is in the middle of a cornfield you can:
a) get drunk off your a**
b) study your a** off
Tire Swing Art: we only like white people
Dela Chi Shirt: we only like (skinny/pretty) white people
Find any untruths? Let me know. (Continued…)
john q fratboy
posted 11/16/07 @ 2:18 AM EST
you are all retarded. it's a shirt. don't like it? don't wear it.
beat it, nerds indeed.
And no fatties.
James Boyer
posted 11/16/07 @ 7:27 AM EST
How about the sorority sisters wear a t-shirt that states:
"No one above .08 ever!"
Teach those frat boys a lesson.
Peter Schermerhorn Johnson
posted 11/16/07 @ 4:36 PM EST
I would just like to point out that the two sororities that complained in the article are NOTORIOUS for fat chicks.
Can't you see, people?! Delta Chi is discriminating against the elderly!!!! Everyone I know that is at least 150 years of age is a proud, highly functional member of their retirement community or graveyard. (Continued…)
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