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CIS 110 MWF
and if your top ones match up your asked back for the next day. So its like you have to
put them and they have to put you in order to be back.
Kennedy: So did you get the sorority that you wanted to?
Lauren: I did.
Kennedy: So do upper classman also decide or.
Lauren: do you mean like older girls in the chapter?
Kennedy: Yes
Lauren: yes
Kennedy: So how many chapters are there? How many sororities are on this campus?
Lauren: that participates in
Kennedy: PanHellenic not national
Lauren: Oh, 13
Kennedy: So do you all interact with the National PanHellenic at all?
Lauren: Um were starting to. I think this year theyre starting to push that. Freshman
year my roommate was actually um now an AKA so I got to experience that.
Kennedy: My mom is an AKA so I was trying to figure out the differences between the
national PanHellenic specifically and the PanHellenic council because at most schools
they are the same thing but here they are different.
Lauren: I dont think that theyre necessarily different theyre just separate. Because we
all are involved in the same stuff and participate in the same events. But we dont do the
same recruitment process and um I know national PanHellenic is a lot smaller too.
Kennedy: There are 9 sororities and fraternities together
Lauren: So its a lot smaller and I didnt know about them before my roommate was even
pledging. I had no idea.
Kennedy: When you come in for orientation the Greeks come present to you but they
dont have the national PanHellenic presenting, just the PanHellenic council. Are there a
lot of minorities in your sorority?
Lauren: No, theres not. We do have.. We have a couple but not very many. I mean but
not very many go through the recruitment process.
Kennedy: Why do you think that is?
Lauren: I guess its jut the, kind of like the stigma that goes along with sorority and
recruitment. I think that people dont know exactly what it is when theyre going through
it. You know if your friends are going through then youre also going to go through it.
And I think people have like an idea of recruitment that might not be exactly what it is.
Kennedy: What stigmas do you think sororities have associated with them?
Lauren: Thats a hard question. I think people think they come from a lot of money and
you have your life handed to you. Youre just kind of I dont know. Everyone just kind of
thinks theyre a bit stuck up. I dont know if youve heard the total sorority girl cover.
And I think thats just like people just kind of make a joke of it, but its kind of like a issue
because youre making fun of yourself for being something.
Kennedy: So do u think that its pretty true how people perceive sororities or do you
think its just 100% wrong?
Lauren: I dont think its true at all, I think with every organization and with every group
there are going to be specific people in that group that fit the stereotype. But on a whole I
have a bunch of best friends all in different sororities like, my best friend shes an AKA
like things like that I think kind of disproves the stereotype.
A little side conversation forms for about one minute
Lauren: Our sisterhood does go beyond college but I dont think its as intense. Because I
know with AKA and like Deltas they I mean you wear your letters for life, if you are that,
you are that for life, and with us, we do and we love our sorority and stuff but once
youre out of college you dont like we dont necessarily wear our letters everyday.
Youre kind of like, I mean we obviously still have our pins and stuff but we dont wear
them all the time, but obviously if someone was in trouble or needed help that would be
different but yeah.
Kennedy: I never asked you what sorority youre in?
Lauren: Im in Chi Omega
Kennedy: So is that the full name?
Lauren: Yes.
Kennedy: What are your pins? What do you mean by pins?
Lauren: its just like our crest, It is just kind of what our chapter embodies, each different
sorority had like their crest and um different things are in their crest, and different things
in the crest stand for different stuff.
Interview proceeds for about 8 minutes about sorority life, professor enters and
starts talking to us both, but since the interview is extremely long I cut it off at this
point on the recording.
Kennedy: Im black.
Dakota: So youre just black?
Kennedy: Well my dads part Hawaiian but I am black
Dakota: SO youre not mixed?
Kennedy: My moms black, and my dads black and half Hawaiian.
Dakota: So thats why youre so light?
Kennedy: yes
Dakota: Anyway sorry, but they probably would give you the black person because they
feel like youll have more in common.
Kennedy: So did you find that the stereotypes are true? You know how people have
stereotypes about sororities.
Dakota: Um. There are those people who definitely are but then I feel like there are those
people who also are not like. The reason I joined the house Im in is because I loved in
because of the people. I feel like they are just like sororities are,
Loud outbursts interrupts interview
Kennedy: What is like one stereotype you think people have about sororities?
Dakota: That theyre rich white girls. I feel like thats the thing theyre like, and they
dont care about anything other than partying.
Kennedy: Whats like the stereotype of your house?
Dakota: See like we dont really have a stereotype because theres literally like just a
whole bunch of girls. Thats what I liked about ours. There was no stereotype going in,
no name that goes with our sorority, there are names that go with other sororities and I
didnt want to be set. Like have people look at me like that. I dont think theres a
stereotype at all
Kennedy: Do you feel like people judge you differently because youre in a sorority?
Dakota: Um, yeah. In terms of like Oh my god do you like your lilies and stuff and like
do you have a planner? Do you do this? Yeah, a lot of them judge me or something, like
my cousin would judge me for it.
Kennedy: DO you think its like an issue with academics and stuff like that? Or do you
think professors judge you differently based on it?
Dakota: umm
Kennedy: because I know there was a whole incident with, a person in our LLP.
Dakota: Yeah, I dont. I never had an issue with a professor judging me for being in a
sorority, like its never been an issue for me. Or with faculty its never been an issue like
how they looked at me.
Random conversation
Kennedy: What is the difference between the PanHellenic council and the national
PanHellenic council?
Dakota: Theres like 13 of us
Kennedy: Theres 9 national PanHellenic
Dakota: They have different rules set, like they dont have an official like, they do rush
all at once, and theres is very secretive I guess. Secretive like youre going to rush.
This conversation is extremely long and detours several times. The ultimate
summary of events was similar to what Lauren said. Dakota does not know much
about the national PanHellenic council but she thinks that both sororities are
exclusive, that both councils are based on race. The National PanHellenic is
certainly exclusive to African Americans where the PanHellenic council is
predominantly Caucasian.