Objective Summary #2

Objective Summary #2

Alexandra Robbins went undercover in sororities across the nation in her book Pledged, and she found young women in all sororities are going to extremes to conform, all in the name of "sisterhood". This section of reading went particularly in depth about segregated sororities. In the south, many sororities are segregated. The most prominent one is University of Alabama. This has caused controversy for years, and while also being illegal, nothing has been done. These girls live deceptive "reality" of racial segregation on their college campus and sororities, when the real world isn't segregated anymore. This section also talks about parent influence and how their ideals influence their daughters. For example, "My parents wouldn't be happy if I dated someone black." (Robbins, 230) The parents of these young women force ideas and lifestyles onto them. A lot of mothers of these daughters hire someone to groom their daughters to "perfection" before rushing. This implies that looks mean more than who the person really is inside. One Delta admitted that none of the fraternities would want anything to do with them if they had a black girl in their sorority. Blatant racism is very prominent in southern sororities and is not uncommon to be segregated. This is normal in the eyes of these people but the baggage it creates on anyone who is not the same as the "sorority girls" is tremendous.

Robbins, Alexandra. Pledged: The Secret Life of Sororities. New York: Hyperion, 2004. Print.

Sororities

Essential Question:
What if hazing laws did not exist?
Claim:
Hazing laws do not have an effect on reducing hazing in sororities.
Reason:
Even though 44 states have anti-hazing laws, hazing still occurs in many sororities.

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The results were varying for each question, each question also had unique responses. Most people would join a sorority for life experience and friendships. However, seventy five percent of the responses thought of parties and exchanges when thinking about greek community. There us so much more to sororities than parties and friends. Fifty percent of students who took the survey find charity work in greek life somewhat important. Also, hazing makes fifty percent of users nervous about joining a sorority or fraternity. The financial aspect of becoming a Greek member does not affect most students in their decision.

Evaluate Karen and how her personality influences her to cheat on Greg.
Karen has low self esteem which causes her to do close to anything to make her feel better about herself, including cheating. Karen is a Beta Pi sorority girl at ULA who is easily swayed by peer pressure. She does whatever her mom and boyfriend want her to do, including writing Greg's school papers. Once, her mother told her she had a big nose, so she got a nose job. In the end, Karen wants so badly to fit in that she will go as far as it takes to get approval from her peers."I'm not pretty, but give me a half hour with 60 percent of the guy population and I can somehow get him to name that tune." (Welch 15) This quote shows how low her self confidence is, but how much she cares about what boys think of her. Karen swears she will marry Greg, but then cheats on him. She likes the idea of having a boyfriend, but more importantly, she loves the satisfaction she gets from boys attention. Karens personality influences her to cheat on Greg because she needs more than just a solid boyfriend, she needs approval from a lot of boys to feel that she is special. 

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In Glendale School District in Southern California, they are spending 40,500 dollars to monitor students on multiple social media platforms. This is the districts response to bullying on social media and how they plan to stop it. The district says that "monitoring is for student safety". Many people are saying that this is an infringement of privacy because no one, including the principals, has made a public statement addressing the monitoring.

The entire thing wouldn't be wrong if they just let the students know that they were monitoring. That would give them the chance to turn their accounts on private, and even think before they speak. If people knew that the school was watching everything they put on the internet, they would behave differently. Spying on them is wrong and having daily reports of what students choose to say sent to administration is unconstitutional. On the other hand, if you don't want your page or account to be public, make it private.

Anyone could look at anything on the 

internet and people need to be aware of that. This does not justify the fact that they are snooping on their students, but people just need to realize that if you are a public page, anyone could be reading your posts. This topic is very controversial. If you scroll to the bottom of this page, you can read many peoples opinions in the comment section. 

If this happened at San Ramon, I think people would be infuriated. Not at the fact that we would be monitored, just the fact that no one told us. Also, I know me and my friends tend to joke around with each other on twitter and instagram. I think its hard for a computer generated program and people working for a  company to differentiate between posts that are posing threats and posts that aren't.  Its hard to tell over the internet what people really mean, but people have the right to say whatever they want. I could see this happening at San Ramon but i've never seen something on social media that would've needed the administration involved. I'm careful about what I post on the internet so it really wouldn't be a problem for me, but for other people it might actually be a good thing for them to realize that what they say is public and what is said on the internet will be there forever.