Editor:
In response to the letter "Sorority Not Acting As 'Capable Adults'," (Oct. 5) I am more then happy to accept the challenge "to prove her wrong."
To begin with, Ms. Diana Glendinning is guilty of making a gross assumption, very similar to the accusation she made against a sorority.
Ms. Glendinning assumed that all sororities felt a certain way, and even an entire sorority house felt a certain way. If a sorority is going to be accused of making an insulting and demeaning assumption, the accuser certainly shouldn't make a similar such assumption. It seems to be a case of "the pot calling the kettle black."
As to the assumption made, let me disprove it. In a sorority academics are first and foremost. We are not here for our M.R.S. degree, but rather to gain a college education in order to rise above the "lower-than-male jobs" and break the stereotype that women cannot hold top positions in the job-field. In fact, many girls in sororities hold top positions in all sorts of organizations around campus, such as: Phi Psi; Order of Omega; and Student Council. Greeks in general hold over 90 percent of all major student held positions on campus. Is this the type of student body that would be better served at a "finishing school than at institutes of higher learning?"
Kathryn At Lee
Political Science Sophomore