Wrongs of Passage

Wrongs of Passage
Author: Hank Nuwer
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2001
Genre: Education
ISBN: 025321498X

Explores the problems of hazing and binge drinking at fraternities and sororities on American college campuses, telling the stories of some of the young people who have been seriously injured or died as a result of such behaviors; and offers a list of recommendations for reform.

The Lion's Brood

The Lion's Brood
Author: Duffield Osborne
Publisher: DigiCat
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2022-09-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Lion's Brood" by Duffield Osborne. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Torn Togas

Torn Togas
Author: Esther Wright
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1996
Genre: College students
ISBN: 9780925190949

A glimpse through the peephole into the land of kegs and togas.

Pledged

Pledged
Author: Alexandra Robbins
Publisher: Hachette Books
Total Pages: 466
Release: 2011-05-24
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1401304052

Alexandra Robbins wanted to find out if the stereotypes about sorority girls were actually true, so she spent a year with a group of girls in a typical sorority. The sordid behavior of sorority girls exceeded her worst expectations -- drugs, psychological abuse, extreme promiscuity, racism, violence, and rampant eating disorders are just a few of the problems. But even more surprising was the fact that these abuses were inflicted and endured by intelligent, successful, and attractive women. Why is the desire to belong to a sorority so powerful that women are willing to engage in this type of behavior -- especially when the women involved are supposed to be considered 'sisters'? What definition of sisterhood do many women embrace? Pledged combines a sharp-eyed narrative with extensive reporting and the fly-on-the-wall voyeurism of reality shows to provide the answer.

Black Greek 101

Black Greek 101
Author: Walter M. Kimbrough
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2023-09-12
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1493081985

Black Greek 101 analyzes the customs, culture, and challenges facing historically Black fraternal organizations. The text provides a history of Black Greek organizations beyond the nine major organizations, examining the pledging practice, the growth of fraternalism outside of the mainstream organizations, the vivid culture and practices of the groups, and challenges for the future.

Brothers and Sisters

Brothers and Sisters
Author: Craig LaRon Torbenson
Publisher: Associated University Presse
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2009
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780838641941

The 1950s are arguably the watershed era in the civil rights movement with the landmark Supreme Court decision of Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955, and the desegregation of Little Rock (Arkansas) High School in 1957. It was during this period--1955 to be exact--that sociologist Alfred M. Lee published his seminal work Fraternities without Brotherhood: A Study of Prejudice on the American Campus. Lee's book was the first and last book to explore diversity within college fraternal groups. More than fifty years later, Craig L. Torbenson and Gregory S. Parks revisit this issue more broadly in their edited volume Brothers and Sisters: Diversity in College Fraternities and Sororities. This volume draws from a variety of disciplines in an attempt to provide a holistic analysis of diversity within collegiate fraternal life. It also brings a wide range of scholarly approaches to the inquiry of diversity within college fraternities and sororities. It explores not only from whence these groups have come but where they are currently situated and what issues arise as they progress.

Black Greek-Letter Organizations 2.0

Black Greek-Letter Organizations 2.0
Author: Matthew W. Hughey
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Total Pages: 526
Release: 2011-02-18
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1628467568

At the turn of the twentieth century, black fraternities and sororities, also known as Black Greek-Letter Organizations (BGLOs), were an integral part of what W.E.B. Du Bois called the “talented tenth.” This was the top ten percent of the black community that would serve as a cadre of educated, upper-class, motivated individuals who acquired the professional credentials, skills, and capital to assist the race to attain socioeconomic parity. Today, however, BGLOs struggle to find their place and direction in a world drastically different from the one that witnessed their genesis. In recent years, there has been a growing body of scholarship on BGLOs. This collection of essays seeks to push those who think about BGLOs to engage in more critically and empirically based analysis. This book also seeks to move BGLO members and those who work with them beyond conclusions based on hunches, conventional wisdom, intuition, and personal experience. In addition to a rich range of scholars, this volume includes a kind of call and response feature between scholars and prominent members of the BGLO community.

The Toga and Roman Identity

The Toga and Roman Identity
Author: Ursula Rothe
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2019-12-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 147257155X

This book traces the toga's history from its origins in the Etruscan garment known as the tebenna, through its use as an everyday garment in the Republican period to its increasingly exclusive role as a symbol of privilege in the Principate and its decline in use in late antiquity. It aims to shift the scholarly view of the toga from one dominated by its role as a feature of Roman art to one in which it is seen as an everyday object and a highly charged symbol that in its various forms was central to the definition and negotiation of important gender, age and status boundaries, as well as political stances and ideologies. It discusses the toga's significance not just in Rome itself, but also in the provinces, where it reveals ideas about cultural identity, status and the role of the Roman state. The Toga and Roman Identity shows that, by looking in detail at the history of Rome's national garment, we can gain a better understanding of the complexities of Roman identity for different groups in society, as well as what it meant, at any given time, to be 'Roman'.

Pahlavi Texts

Pahlavi Texts
Author: Jāmāspjī Mīnocheherjī Jamāsp-Āsānā (Dastur)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 220
Release: 1897
Genre: Pahlavi language
ISBN: