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A Penn State sorority has become the focus of an investigation after a racist Mexican-themed party picture was posted to the Web, according to the independent Penn State blog, Onward State. The picture, said to be taken around Halloween, shows the women dressed in sombreros and mustaches. Some of the women held signs that read "Will mow lawn for weed + beer" and "I don't cut grass I smoke it." The photo was posted on Tumblr and Facebook, where Onward State was able to identify the women tagged in the photo as members of the Chi Omega sorority on campus....

The University will ban students from participating in freshman rush, it announced on Tuesday. The ban will take effect beginning in fall 2012, with members of the Class of 2016 prohibited from affiliating with fraternities or sororities for the duration of their freshman year, and members of other classes prohibited from conducting any sort of rush activities for freshmen. President Tilghman is notifying incoming freshmen of the policy change this week, according to the announcement. “The decision to prohibit freshman year affiliation and recruitment is driven primarily by a conviction that social and residential life at Princeton should continue to...

He roamed the University of Cincinnati campus with a loaded gun. When his rage overflowed, the brainy microbiology major would open fire inside empty buildings, visualizing a wall clock or other object as a person who had done him wrong. By the mid-1970s, Bruce Ivins had earned his doctorate and was a promising researcher at the University of North Carolina. By outward appearances, he was a charming eccentric, odd but disarming. Inside, he still smoldered with resentment, and he saw a new outlet for it. Several years earlier, a Cincinnati student had turned him down for a date. He had...

Girls just wanna have fun, right? Tell that to the folks at the Parkersburg Art Center, West Virginia, and the Lake Lyndsay Lodge, Ohio. These are really nice halls whose owners rent them out for wedding receptions, dances, and similar genteel occasions. They feature amenities such as crystal vases, silk flowers, pin-tuck tablecloths, statuary, and the like. On March 6 at Petersburg, and April 9 at Lake Lyndsay, the sisters of a college sorority, with their dates, held dinner dances at the halls, rented for the occasion. As reported by thesmokinggun.com, the college girls made a total shambles of both...

White Sorority Wins Step Competition, Then Told "Not Quite" By Boyce Watkins, PhD Feb 26th 2010 When the women of Zeta Tau Alpha won the Sprite Step Off national competition last week, they raised eye brows. People were not only intrigued because of their amazing abilities on the floor; people's necks were also turning because of the skin color of the champions. The white women of Zeta Tau Alpha have learned from the best and came with the best, dominating the competition and winning the national prize. My girl and protege at Bossip, Lady Drama, says that the women brought...

The young pledge said she was told the beatings would "humble" her, that each flesh-rending strike with a wooden paddle would build love and trust between sorority sisters. It wasn’t hazing, she said they told her. The women of Sigma Gamma Rho at Rutgers University didn’t condone hazing. For seven nights the beatings went on, she said. In all, she was struck 201 times. On the eighth day — unable to sit, her buttocks covered with blood clots and welts — she went to the hospital. Then she reported it to the university. Today, Rutgers police said they had arrested...

CHICAGO — Members of the country's oldest black sorority are suing to remove their president, alleging that she spent hundreds of thousands of dollars of the group's money on herself — some of it to pay for a wax statue in her own likeness. In the suit filed in Washington, D.C., the Alpha Kappa Alpha members also alleged that international President Barbara McKinzie bought designer clothing, jewelry and lingerie with the sorority credit card. She then redeemed points the purchases earned on the card to buy a big-screen television and gym equipment, the lawsuit said. "This is extraordinarily shocking if...

Members of a prominent Chicago-based sorority are suing to oust their national president -- former Chicago Housing Authority comptroller Barbara McKinzie -- saying she misappropriated funds and commissioned a $900,000 wax figure of herself. She also is accused of taking nearly $400,000 for personal expenses and arranging for a $4,000 monthly stipend to be paid to herself after she leaves office.

“We’re seeing a moment in history,” said Missy McQuattie, a Reno businesswoman. As for Palin’s lack of national-international experience, she said “she’’s a quick study.” She said her niece told her all her sorority sisters who were Obama backers are switching over to the GOP ticket because of Palin.

1. Jeri Kehn was born on Sept. 30, 1966, in Hastings, Neb. Her family moved to Naperville, Ill., when she was 3. Growing up, Jeri spent summers on her grandparents' farm in Nebraska. 2. Her parents divorced when she was around 12. Her mother, Vicki, a librarian, married Ronald Keller, a music teacher, about three years after her divorce. 3. Jeri is a 1984 graduate of Naperville North High School. While at Naperville North, she was a member of the school's dance squad, the Starlettes. During Jeri's junior year of high school, the Starlettes won the state championship. 4. She...

ST. LOUIS, Missouri (AP) -- Magic Markers, bubble wands and jungle-animal stickers aren't often found in the average college student's backpack. For the women of Mu Tau Rho, a new sorority for student-mothers at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, those toys are every bit as vital as laptop computers and e-mail accounts."I wanted to be in a sorority so bad," said Danielle Cooney, a 22-year-old sophomore math major. "Then I had my son. I didn't have a baby sitter to do all that." Cooney, whose son Jordan is 3, soon realized that other women on the Missouri-St. Louis campus --...

GREEK MUSLIMS By PHILIP RECCHIA SISTERS: Sorority sisters Mayiam Kandil, Nour Abdul-Razzak, Atiya Hasan and Iman Kandil (from left) sell "Gamma Gear" online. January 22, 2006 -- America's newest sorority won't be hosting toga parties anytime soon. That's because the girls of Gamma Gamma Chi will allow no booze, no boys and no barely-there outfits. Membership in the country's first Islamic sorority, rolling out at Rutgers, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and other schools this year, requires a grade-point average of at least 3.2, prayer to Allah and observance of such sacred Ramadan practices as fasting. Hijabs, or head scarves,...

America's first Islamic sorority is more about God than being Greek. There will be no beer at Gamma Gamma Chi functions, in obedience to Islamic law, nor will there be group fraternizing with the opposite sex. "Partying is allowed in Islam, but it's how you party," said Althia Collins, an Alexandria businesswoman who has helped create it. "You can have fun with girls and it doesn't have to include men." Thirteen women at the University of Kentucky will form the sorority's first college chapter this spring, and another group is waiting to start at the University of Maryland's Baltimore campus....

LEXINGTON, Ky. Some University of Kentucky students are planning to start a Muslim sorority that will stress sisterhood and community service among its members.

Campus Greek Life Could Get Islamic Touch Young Muslim women are intrigued by the prospect of a sorority where they wouldn't have to compromise their religious beliefs. By Jenny Jarvie, Times Staff Writer LEXINGTON, Ky. — Tottering on stilettos, Amira Shalash, a freshman at the University of Kentucky, tossed back her long, tousled hair and tugged at the neckline of her sweater, which had slipped off her shoulder. Giggling, her friends — who wear hijabs, traditional Muslim head scarves — teased her that she was not dressed modestly enough.

Said Jan Dizard, an Amherst College professor and author of a book on hunters: "Women, particularly adult women, are much more thoughtful and considerate, and come into hunting with a much clearer ethical sensibility. I think that's one of the reasons why one sees a decline in the number of accidents. They report they're not as disappointed if they come home empty-handed. In a sense, there's not as much ego on the line as there appears to be with at least some men."

Anyone here who went to college, if so tell us what you remember?

<p>COLUMBIA, Mo. — Members of a sorority were urged to lie about their health to qualify as donors in a competitive blood drive at the University of Missouri-Columbia (search), a school that once set a world record for blood collection.</p>