There's a story today about Delta Zeta, a sorority, that booted 23 members from a chapter at Depauw University in Indiana.

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(CBS) A national sorority's decision to dump two-thirds of the sisters in one of its Indiana houses — possibly because of their looks — is getting national attention and a review from the school of its sororities and fraternities.

The New York Times reported Sunday that national officers of Delta Zeta were worried about a negative stereotype and declining membership in its DePauw University chapter in Greencastle, Ind. Thirty-five sisters were interviewed in November, and 23 were deemed insufficiently committed to the sorority and recruitment. Just before final exams in December, they were told to leave.

They included every woman who was overweight as well as the only black, Korean and Vietnamese members. Even the chapter's president was kicked out. The 12 who remained were slim and conventionally pretty.

"There's no proof of that but when I look around I think to myself, it had to have been" about looks, former sorority member Celeste Gossmann told CBS affiliate WISH-TV. Six of the remaining sisters quit in protest.

"Virtually everyone who didn't fit a certain sorority member archetype was told to leave," Kate Holloway, a senior who withdrew from the chapter during its reorganization, told The Times. "I sensed the disrespect with which this was to be carried out and got fed up." The last straw for Holloway was a recruiting event in November for DePauw freshmen, for which "blond" and "skinny" sorority members from Indiana University were brought in, she told the Indianapolis Star, for which she has worked as a reporting intern. Some of the booted sorority sisters withdrew from classes in depression.

There have been student protests, outraged letters from alumni and parents, and a faculty petition calling the sorority's action unethical. "None of us signed up for a sorority judging us on how we looked," Gossmann told WISH. As a result, DePauw has revised standards for student groups and adding three employees specifically to work with fraternities and sororities, which draw nearly three-quarters of the student body, reports the Star.

The other six sororities on campus have about 100 members each, and Holloway told the Star that the Delta Zeta sisters never ignored the lagging membership. When a psychology professor at the school surveyed students, they described Delta Zeta sisters as "socially awkward." Although it declined interview requests, the sorority did fire back. "Delta Zeta finds it offensive that recent reports have suggested that decisions at DePauw University were related in any way to our members' races and nationalities," the sorority said in a statement on its Web site.

In e-mail to The Times, national executive director Cynthia Winslow Menges said the sorority "is saddened that the isolated incident at DePauw has been mischaracterized." But the sorority also seems to admit it may have made a mistake. "With a steady decline in membership in the Delta Chapter over several years, the viability of the chapter was in question. In the process of addressing that situation, we misjudged how some of our communications would be received by our members, and we regret that," the statement said. Cindy Babington, DePauw's dean of students, told WISH the school had nothing to do with the decision to evict the 23 students from the sorority house, and she hopes it doesn't reflect poorly on DePauw. "I think at this point, we're getting an awful lot of unpopular publicity," Babington told the Star. "I don't know how or if they will survive this."

During rush activities this month, The Times reported, 11 first-year students accepted invitations to join Delta Zeta, but only three have sought membership. Delta Zeta isn't the only problem in DePauw's Greek system. Three fraternities have been on probation in as many years for hazing, university officials said. The university has drawn up new "living standards" for fraternities and sororities, which includes a provision to prevent another incident such as what happened at Delta Zeta. The specific proposals, which DePauw's trustees are expected to approve in April, were not made public. "It really was a statement of wanting our Greek system to be stronger," Babington told the Star. "Many other schools, small schools particularly, have let their Greek systems self-destruct, and we didn't want to let that happen."

Delta Zeta has 165 chapters and is headquartered in Oxford, Ohio. It was founded in 1902 at Miami University there. The DePauw chapter was founded in 1909. © MMVII, CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved.

As a sorority member, it's interesting to hear about discrimination after a member is initiated. Usually, this type of "weeding-out" is done during recruitment. Nevertheless, it reflects poorly on the whole system and I hope that other chapters make a concerted effort to at least publicly criticize this action. In addition, I hope that young women who go through the recruitment process realize that a chapter isn't defined by how they look. If you choose the chapter that suits your personality the best (as opposed to image), you will be happier in the long run.

A few days ago a friend who helped inspire Christine's Revenge in 2003 told me that my blog was lonely.

So, I'd decided to bring it back (with a much prettier template that wasn't available back then), in the hopes that my friends might find stuff that I post fun to read/look at, discuss, etc.

So stay tuned! ~Christine

(p.s. the picture above is of the Antartic Ice Fish, which was a species recently discovered in Antartica thanks to global warming. For more info and pics go to www.cnn.com)

Stay tuned for a new post on The Revenge of the Blog!

Wow, it's 2005 and I'm posting to this.
My current status:
I'm not longer at Capo and no longer at war with the CSC crew's blog.
I go to stanford, enjoy blogging (see www.myspace.com/calichristine )
And have a life outside of my computer (although not much of one, I'll admit)
I guess the most surprising thing is that I'm still dating Curtis. Yup, it's been 2.5 years, and he's starting at UCLA this september so we will continue this long distance business.

Anyway, that's all for now. I'm tempted to make this my permanant blog b/c it has a cool name, but who knows?

WhoHOOO!!! Only 2 APs left....IN MY ENTIRE LIFE!!!!!!

yeah, just had to mention that...

props to God for saving my Uncle's life yesterday....the power of prayer combines w/ God's power is amazing...

My only other comment is....I work @ INnOUt....a lot.....a whole lot.....Yeah.....like, 20+ hrs a week lot....errrr

Hi! It's Wednesday and I"m reporting from Spanish. 2 exams done, 3 to go! Anyway, so check out mgnk.blogspot.com, since there's more blogs now. Hmm...that's about it, i'm bored. but at least i'm not in Hoffman yet!

All i'm going to say is: He needs to get out on sundays more often. Yeah, that's about it....lol :-)

Thank goodness for Curtis...I'd would've had 2 terrible days....
Yay, I have more stanford clothes now!!!
But i must say, 14 hrs. of work in about 26 hrs. is insane.

Funny random thing of the day:
So I decide to put something on my AIM profile saying:
"Has anyone else noticed how everyone's paired up now?"
And I get an AWESOME response:
definite props go out to Trumpetguy84:
Trumpetguy84: i have noticed how everyone has a "significance other" these days!
Trumpetguy84: and here's what i think
Trumpetguy84: as humans, we have this inborn instinct (if you want to call it that) to cling to each other when times get tough
Trumpetguy84: with AP exams coming up and lives becoming more stressful (before they slow down again)
Trumpetguy84: we find ourselves needing the comfort of others in similar situations
Trumpetguy84: also, besides the stress part
Trumpetguy84: we're finishing high school in 9 weeks (sweeeeeeeet)
Trumpetguy84: and as we come to the end of a tiring, 4-year ordeal
Trumpetguy84: we desire someone to share it with
Trumpetguy84: and then to share the upcoming with
Trumpetguy84: because, to be alone before being really alone (in college) is ajust a depressing thought
Trumpetguy84: nobody wants to go out quietly
Trumpetguy84: what's that poem by Dylan Thomas? Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night?
Trumpetguy84: yeah, it's kinda like that
Trumpetguy84: but the question that remains is this - how long will these relationships last?
Trumpetguy84: especially if they haven't already been given an execution date (as most of them have, or at least the ones i can think of)
Trumpetguy84: hmmmm....


Defintely blog worthy.


And it's also of note that my wonderful boyfriend decided to surprise me and show up @ my concert. And then we partook in free scoop night @ baskin robbins. Gotta love middle-of-the-week dates! :-)

Now back to reality: Psychology, Gov and Spanish...::sigh::

Hmm...We're happy that Andrew isn't hurt...that's definitely a blessing...but you gotta love the irony about how the safest driver out of all of us is the one who gets in the accident...nice. Oh well, it wasn't his fault anyway.

I must say, I have the sweetest guy as my promdate/boyfriend. Check out his prom post: mgnk.blogspot.com
He's too good to me :-)

Anyway, i must go back to my essay so i get sleep tonite. Gnite!

Prom:::was soooo cool!!! It was really nice, I'm glad I got to go with the sweetest guy I know....but now back to reality....errrr School is a pain, we have so much homework I think i'm going to Scream, WHY DID LAMBERT ASSIGN AN ESSAY A WEEK BEFORE APS START??????? Ok, i've done my venting...

On a more random note, have you ever eaten an orange and it tasted dry? I threw out this large one today cuz it was nastily dry (love my diction). Anyway, just wondering.

I can't wait till prom, but in the meantime there's this thing called school....gosh it sucks....

Oh, and tomorrow something thrilling will happen: I will recieve my smallest paycheck ever: about 25 dollars, for 3.5 hours of work in 1 week....oh baby oh baby

I must say....it's so easy to make him blush using flattery....

KingBeefoSmurfs: you're doing it again
CaliChristine03: what making you blush?
KingBeefoSmurfs: yeah
CaliChristine03: yay...mission accomplished

oh and other randomness thing...my math score....what the heck??!? I swear it was the grace of God...or maybe Stanford luck...but whatever it was, it wasn't me!

All I can say is.... I may have stayed home from school, but this day still kinda sucked.

Happy easter! I'm about to bleach my cousins hair...wish him luck! Hope everyone has a good first day back. See you Tuesday! (maybe)

So I'm standing on a corner in Times Square (NYC) and I see this tall guy who kind of looks familar...I soon realize who it is, tap him on the shoulder, he turns around, says, Christine!!!! Gives me a hug (meanwhile, my mom's kinda freaked...lol) and we quickly say hi and go our separate ways...it turns out that by chance Joe Vulk and I ended up on the same corner in New York City today. Talk about wacky!

Hello, still in PA, I'm coming home on Monday if you're interested.

The cell phone is an amazing modern invention.

I saw HEAD OF STATE tonite....extremely funny, but you can't be sheltered to appreciate the humor (which basically means, most of south orange county won't appreciate the humor and just pass it off as a stupid movie).

That's all for now, goin into NYC tomorrow....that'll be fun...hopefully I won't spend too much money.

Happy Spring Break! (didn't it go fast???)

He he!
Now i have AIM capability! I'm staying at my aunt's house who has cable internet....including AIM!!! My life is now complete. So yeah, i have this cousin who's 5 (think thats young? 2 twin girls due in July..they'll hardly even know me). And she wanted me to sleep over, so I am. She's extremely cute.

Did anyone else notice that Fossum isn't going to write on his Blog anymore? How sad, it was wierd, yet fun to read a teacher's blog. Oh well.

GG finally got my emails...that brings joy to my heart.

Well, i hope anyone who's reading this has a good spring break, and good Easter if you celebrate it. (if you do, best Christian Holiday ever!!!). Anyway, i'm out...goodnite!

oh and if you're curious about when i'm coming home...it'll be Monday night, around 6. But don't count on me being in school Tuesday...lol

Hi. once again reporting from PA. Actually I went to New Jersey today and ate at a pizza place where my mom hung out when she was a teen. pretty neat stuff...good greasy pizza. All in all, pretty cool place, lots of family, always over. Will report more soon!

Yeah, I'm bored...This sucks, unlimited internet access, but I can't use AIM. The program, it's teasing me!!! So yeah, I'm a jet-lagged, bored Christine w/ a computer laughing @ me.

I went to the mall today (in PA) and didn't buy anything...how messed up is that? But I did have my first steak sandwich, that was good...probably more points that a InnOut Shake, (which is 18, the amount i try to have in a day ) So whatever

Is anyone else being reduced to entertainment a la The Bachelor? I"m just enjoying having my ego be raised by watching these shallow women compete for an unattractive guy just becuase he's the heir (and not even the first son) to a company who's tires SUCK! (He's a firestone, if you never turn to channel 7, ever) Anyway, i don't know who's going to win, but my main hunch if youre interested is that Tina from Wisconsin will be in the final two, but i don't think she'll end up w/ the ring.

Hmmm...any more rants? it's supposed to be in the 40's tomorrow....finally i get to pull out all the warm clothes that i brought. I'm getting sick of the tank top (yes, jen, those infamous tanks, i brought all 4!) and short look. I get to wear all those turtlenecks that i can't wear at home....:-)

Well, i'm going to go brouse the world wide web, since AIm isn't an option. later
Reporting (once again)_from Easton, Pennsylvania

and by the way....600 terms?? Hoffman is a sick man.