The Pi Beta Phi house, a squat building just outside the University of Oklahoma’s campus, was one of the first sororities to make national news. The sorority, which favors haloes and wings and banners that say “ring ching,” had, like most Greek organizations, done the majority of its recruitment online. Members stayed in the house, which can sleep eight women in a single room, and vetted potential new members on Zoom.\n
The Pi Beta Phi house, a squat building just outside the University of Oklahoma’s campus, was one of the first sororities to make national news. The sorority, which favors haloes and wings and banners that say “ring ching,” had, like most Greek organizations, done the majority of its recruitment online. Members stayed in the house, which can sleep eight women in a single room, and vetted potential new members on Zoom.
A week later Addison Price, allegedly in quarantine with her sisters, posted a photo of herself in her hometown an hour away, working out with a boxing trainer. A few days after that, she was at a concert venue and restaurant in Oklahoma City. Price didn’t respond to requests for an interview, and it’s possible she’d been tested and cleared, or that an exception had been made for the state’s reigning queen.
Which isn’t to mention that college students will be college students. When asked if students on her campus were breaking quarantine, one 19-year-old University of Texas student had an immediate answer: “Oh yeah, for sure. Plenty of people have been leaving self-isolation to go party, because they aren’t really being monitored.
I could describe the anxiety hundreds of members felt as we switched our social media accounts to private, removed Greek letters out of our bio, and tried to hide any affiliation with our sorority for fear that the media will ambush us, or people with a pre-existing grudge against Greek life now have a new reason to verbally attack us.
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