Sorority Saga: Let's See Who's Getting the Boot Now.
Last month I wrote about the Delta Zeta sorority kicking out women in its DePauw chapter who are not conventionally pretty.
As a former DZ told CNN, she and her sorority sisters were told by Delta Zeta's national leaders, "You need to be more sexually appealing; you need to make the guys want you." (Full story.)
How anachronistic is that? More to the point, how icky is that?
Ewwww. These are supposed to be well-educated women!
But I'll bite my tongue and move on.
Officials at DePauw were ticked off at the sackings, but it was Delta Zeta's response that drove them to evict the sorority from its campus. Sam Dillon followed up his February report in the New York Times today.
After the initial fuss, which received widespread national attention, Delta Zeta posted a weak apology on its website.
“Delta Zeta National apologizes to any of our women at DePauw who felt personally hurt by our actions. It was never our intention to disparage or hurt any of our members during this chapter reorganization process.”
But, not able to leave well enough alone, "the sorority posted statements critical of the women forced out of the DePauw chapter and of faculty members who supported them.," writes Dillon.
For DePauw officials, that was the last straw. 
University President Robert G. Bottoms said beginning this fall Delta Zeta would no longer be permitted to house students in its Greek-columned residence on the DePauw campus in Greencastle, Indiana.
Let the punishment fit the crime.
It's high time for Delta Zeta's leadership to refine their understanding of an apology. There really is an art to saying "sorry." For starters, they can listen to Amy Dickinson, who explained it in Talk of the Nation on NPR last week.
You can listen to that discussion here.
