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Sorority Hazing Scandal Continued: Tales of Grave-digging and Branding

In response to Long Island's Hofstra University sorority scandal, in which 19-year-old Courtney Holt said she was brutally hazed (the Phi Epsilon sorority responded that she was a mean drunk), a Hofstra alumn has written in. Surprise: the sorority is def evil, she says, and those girls are just as horrible as you might have imagined. "Although this Holt girl def seems like a psycho, a lot of the other information that she states is true... For one being Branded... yes they're branded with a three pronged fork to represent their three values (which is why they have a effing cow as a sorority symbol, and they always say 'love x3')."
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11:41 AM on Wed Apr 30 2008
By Sheila
8,287 views, 53 comments

Latest by n/a: Women who make general statements about how all girls and young women are "evil" might consider going to school, any school, to hone their critical thinking skills. If you think all girls are evil then maybe the fault is yours. more »

peloponnesian war

Head-Bashing Sorority On Alleged Hazing Victim: She Punched Us First

The New York Post ran a story this morning about a poor young lady named Courtney Holt, a 19-year-old Boston native (woot?), who is claiming she was subjected to cruel hazing rituals while pledging the Phi Epsilon sorority at Hofstra University. It's not a sorority, "it's a cult," she claimed. They bashed her head into a wall, they said they would "kill me and slit my throat." That sounds terrible. For reasons I can't quite go into, I once had a raving band of Long Island coeds trying to kill me, and it was pretty scary.* But! Not so, says the sorority. In an internal email sent out this morning to alumni, someone from the sorority claims that Holt was an angry drunk who was violent at bars, that her mother was a lunatic who is banned from the Hofstra campus, that she trashed people's rooms and called them "cunt." Dear me! Who's telling the truth? And more importantly, who's to blame for all these girls who have gone wild?? How about sororities in general. Or, even better, that filthy whore Miley Cyrus. That sounds nice and reactionary, right? Full ZOMG sorority email after the jump. More »

4:28 PM on Tue Apr 29 2008
By Richard
6,259 views, 29 comments

Latest by n/a: I will say this once and only once. From personal experience with the same sorority at the same university, almost 4 years ago, I experienced similar problems. After realizing that I couldn't conform to the cult-like rules of Phi Epsilon, more »