Houston Chronicle Goes Inside A Sorority And Its Spanx

The Houston Chronicle, in a presumably recurring feature called “Relationships With Whitney,” runs a scathing expose of the University of Texas Sorority rush process. Apparently its rather superficial. Or so says Whitney who sort of writes like a sorority girl.

They were pinching, itching and inching up her thighs. From the waist down, the 20-year-old college student was trapped, stuffed and squeezed into the wrong pair of Spanx (a control-top-looking contraption, designed for body slimming and shaping the tummy and thighs).

She had unwittingly grabbed her roommate’s small, rather than her own medium.

Um, ew? That seems a) gross and b) unlikely, but it gets more interesting when the sorority sisters get the IRS involved in their slimming down process:

“We look at lists from tax returns to determine which are the wealthiest ZIP codes to live in around the country,” [K.T., a sorority girl] says, then continues. “We will then look at the potential pledges’ addresses to determine who comes from the right ZIP codes and who are from the wrong ones.”

We’re guessing East LA is out? Fine, fine. But what about ugly women?

After looking at pictures and ZIP codes, we rank girls with numbers from 1 to 10. Sixes and 7s are cut the first day. Then we look at the 8s and 9s.

Wall Street may have lost its standards, but we’ll always have the Greeks to hold up this country.

RELATIONSHIPS WITH WHIT: A sorority’s rush to judgment [Houston Chronicle]