The Bad Girls of Gamma Nu
Stein, Benjamin J.
good economic sense. Had he followed his original instinct not to give in to the economic pressures from the world outside France, Europe as we have known it for a generation would have come to an...
...But with the opening of her eyes at Gamma Nu came an opening of her whole life...
...Marie, whom I had never seen with a book, took my copy of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich and read it in a week...
...There were only two little hitches in her pledging, as Marie recalls...
...She was a freshman at Pierce College, straight out of a girls' parochial school in Burbank...
...Country Club...
...Her grades were miserable, but Marie (as I will call her) was and is a stubborn girl...
...Debbie and Lisa came up with their own little coup...
...The story went around the campus like wildfire, until seven-thirty on Mon-day night, when Marie was summoned before the sorority's highest powers...
...Her roommates were moved to another room and she was left alone...
...Alas, Marie still had to wait in line...
...I know you aren't really Jewish," she told Marie one day...
...Making girls feel shitty because they were born Jewish and never did a thing to hurt anybody doesn't belong in L.A...
...Surprise, surprise, when Marie came back from the library, the house was dark...
...He made sure she never had to spend Thursday nights alone (Thursday is to SC what Saturday is to Princeton), and called her to make sure she got messages...
...She had been at the house since her days as a back-up, replacement stand-in, way down at the end of the bench, for Martha and the Vandellas...
...Schmooey Lipsher was her father...
...He was Presbyterian, and an outcast at Kappa Sig since he had told the actives that they were jackasses for making fun of black people behind their backs, and then kissing O. J. Simpson's ass whenever he happened to THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR OCTOBER 1986 27 about behind her back as a trouble-maker and the potential ruin of Gam-ma Nu, Ted would always be there to walk with Marie down the Bike Path so that she would not be alone while boys and girls whispered about her...
...Look," Marie said as she later told me, "I haven't stolen a thing, and all of you know it...
...It was horrible," Marie recalled...
...Martin's...
...Kathleen and Lisa and Debbie had committed a crime by falsifying a theft and incriminating an innocent woman...
...The chances of a premature return of the Socialists to power have been evoked by an astonishing comeback of President Mitterrand's popularity in the polls...
...That Jewish families were marched around naked by the Nazis and then gassed...
...Marie looked around the room...
...This is really gonna hurt...
...Are you Jewish...
...That Jewish girls the same age as we are were pushed into mass graves and buried alive, trying to push their fingers out of the dirt...
...Yet appreciation of such qualities in a president does not necessarily make one a voter for the Socialist party...
...But after I've been out of school, when you can't hurt me or anyone I love, I'm going to do some-thing about you...
...This was a Marie with weight in her soul...
...But overall, life went as smoothly as a USC co-ed's life should go, with a few infuriating exceptions...
...Plus, Jewish girls are considered really easy, and we don't want to get that kind of reputation either," Staci added helpfully...
...And he always used to take me over to meet his grand-father at the Jonathan Club, and then he stopped doing that, too, and he still wanted to sleep with me, but it was like I was just his concubine, and we didn't have anything to talk about anymore...
...This was not just important, but a matter of life or death...
...You all know it...
...It was simple, but then they were not deep thinkers...
...And my and then we'll never get invited to the Mom could never tell that story with- good parties anymore" out starting to cry, and then my Dad "I'm sure," Marie said...
...As could be expected, the defeat of the left at the polls this year was blamed not only by the Communists but also by the Socialist left wing on the government's economic turnabout...
...and N.J...
...Gamma Nu, as I have called it, still restricts how many non-Aryans it will take...
...She had her Physics classes, her Poli Sci, and her Long Island Iced Teas and her rooftesting...
...Like the elder statesman of the journalism department, he was certain that Marie really was Jewish...
...A few of the kids do it because they think it's cool to be racist, like a sign of adulthood almost," he told her...
...and stared in silent shock at the artifacts of genocide—the barbed wire, the uniforms, the photos of men and women and children being murdered for their heritage...
...What of it...
...About five years ago, my best friend and writing-partner, whom I will call Schmooey Lipsher, hired a part-time messengerette...
...Marie was almost too shocked to re-ply...
...residents, add sales tax...
...Plus their closets, plus their drawers...
...I'll tell you the truth...
...Moreover, President Mitterrand has stature...
...But, again, Marie did not think about the whole subject for long...
...By now, the word on Marie was out, as she told me...
...I never was Jewish...
...Her parents were on a tour of Ireland...
...Well never tell anyone what happened...
...I wish I could report that the girls of Gamma Nu ran after Marie begging her to come back...
...Marie had a few allies...
...Her emerald ear-rings, a gift from her grandparents no less, were missing...
...Early in April, Lisa (as I will call her), the daughter of two doctors from Pasadena, came shrieking into the dining hall one evening to report a catastrophe...
...That is why the recent conservative shift is so important, and why a speedy return to power by the Socialists might well jeopardize the economic progress made since 1983...
...Sterling's family lived in a perfect ranch house in the Rolling Hills section of Palos Verdes, with a towering view of the ocean...
...I'm proud of my father...
...He fits General de Gaulle's prescription for a leader: He is complex and mysterious...
...Weand all the invitations they got were from geek houses...
...But the clincher came the next night...
...She began—but could not finish—The War Against the Jews by Lucy Dawidowicz...
...Marie asked...
...President Mitterrand's standing in the polls, though still impressive, has been in steady decline since May...
...The blinds were drawn...
...Marie's parents and Schmooey Lipsher were also with her, and so was I. Perhaps more important, certainly more surprising, Marie was herself becoming a new woman...
...I don't think that's funny," Marie said, and she walked out...
...She saw only one friendly face...
...Staci told me that most of the girls in the house really liked me, but they were wondering why I kept sticking up for the Jews, like was my first Dad Jewish, or what...
...Later that night, while she was having a beer with her boyfriend at the Nine-Oh, she told him the story of the ear-rings and the frame-up...
...Now he only looked in on news-writing classes, and was not even a faculty member...
...If her grades wouldn't do it, she would turn the trick by writing a perfect adBenjamin J. Stein is a writer, producer, and movie actor in Hollywood...
...It was one of the best "priss houses" on campus...
...The second was when Marie had "Presentation...
...Please add $2.50 postage and handling...
...She also likes to see what people are like on the inside...
...Did you know that Jewish mothers were bayoneted with their babies...
...the masses," and of "the alliance of social forces...
...That her or her three sisters to make any doesn't make sense...
...Marie, no shrinking violet to be sure, did not want to stand in line...
...I want to tell you something...
...And most of the other kids just go along because they're too whacked to care or else they don't even know about it...
...Marie was on the Rush Committee...
...I still have some friends here, or at least I thought I did...
...She would have been regarded as a maniac, but still not a danger...
...While she was sputtering, another girl, whom I will call Debbie, walked into the -room and joined in...
...The war against racism is lost by miles and only won by inches...
...Now, in every sense, everyone was in deep water...
...Then, I was listening to my stereo one night, and this girl from the sorority Gestapo came storming in and told me this was the last straw, and I was on probation...
...This was a new young woman, with the zest and energy of the old, but with a purpose in her life, for the first time...
...The worst thing though was Sterling...
...Marie was Jewish, so the story went...
...Sometimes the girls' fathers get a little wasted and they start making jokes about Jews, like about, `we've got to really appreciate the Jews, because if there hadn't been Jews, there wouldn't be ovens,' and if you start to give them a hard time, they won't have you back to their houses, and then the alumni start bad-mouthing you...
...We try to take two Jewish girls every year, but we don't want to go overboard...
...He had been a distant second to Sterling Schmidt, and frankly, even in her travail at Gamma Nu, Marie thought that Ted was not quite hip enough to be more than a friend...
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...In all too many places, the Greek system still teaches one indelible lesson to children at the most impressionable of ages, the lesson of racism...
...Second semester rushing and pledging had started...
...By making them con-front their own racism, she had made them see who they were, and for that, she could not be forgiven...
...Their approval of the "cohabitation" of a conservative government with a Socialist president is not only based, as many French commentators believe, on the French love of paradox and backstage infighting...
...Meanwhile, Lisa is the biggest liar in the house, and she probably was so stoned screwing some little fraternity boy that she lost them, and she was scared to tell her precious grand-parents, so she spread it around that one of the Jewish girls took the things, even though she knows really well she lost them herself...
...His father owned apartment buildings near Torrance...
...Had he followed his original instinct not to give in to the economic pressures from the world outside France, Europe as we have known it for a generation would have come to an end...
...kind of racial remarks at all...
...She told me I was really getting a bad rep as a trouble-maker, and people in the house were wondering whether I was secretly Jewish or what...
...Now we're gonna get a reputation, and people will start looking at all of us and wondering if we're Jewish, too, if we have big noses or anything...
...She even went to the Holocaust Museum on Pico in West L.A...
...Her parents had gotten remarried, and now she tried to cover up that she was Jewish...
...It would have been easy for her to spill the beans any time before then...
...When they're too hard on you, you come down to my office here and we'll talk some trash about the seniors...
...She had even had an elaborate nose-job to cover up her original Jewish features...
...The orbit of her imagination went little beyond Newport Beach and Santa Barbara...
...He suddenly became like really, really cold to me, and he still wanted to sleep with me, but he didn't want to talk to me anymore...
...Alice Dow-ling was a forty-five-year-old, completely hip black woman who ran the kitchen at Gamma Nu...
...She was a cheerful, extremely beautiful young woman, almost a dead ringer for the young Sophia Loren, and they hit it off immediately...
...He had been a war correspondent attached to Patton's Third Army...
...Kathleen just stared at Marie, and walked out of the Chapter Room...
...On the other hand, if Marie challenged the house, she could get a police record for theft—even if only an accusation...
...Little by little through the spring, Marie was frozen out of all but the most superficial aspects of life on The Row...
...If we get any more, we're gonwar and said that the girl had been na get a reputation as a Jewish house, gassed somewhere in Poland...
...So do all of the most "prestigious" houses at SC, and at many other universities in this free country...
...the checks and balances of cohabitation have given them that choice...
...A troublemaker...
...Marie had trouble with her classes, and she thought a few of the girls were ridiculously stuck-up...
...My roommate Staci was kind of high, leaning out the window smoking cloves, and when I came in, she told me she had to talk to me...
...The complexities of Mitterrand's life and character are brilliantly presented in Catherine Nay's Le Noir et Le Rouge (Paris, 1984...
...The Pledge Committee couldn't believe their ears...
...Raymond Barre, Giscard's last prime minister and an aspirant to the presidency, fears that in the glow of popularity President Mitterrand may resign, and be re-elected foranother term of seven years...
...The thing is, that's not as harmless as it sounds, because that's about the same proportions that there were in Germany," he added...
...But that was not enough...
...After I've seen pictures of what the Nazis did to Jews, I would be very proud to be Jewish...
...More than 300 full-color before-and-after photographs examine in detail the fascinating, highly specialized process of what is considered the restoration of the century...
...Little Hitler Youth Nazis with rib-bons in their hair don't belong at SC...
...Marie, who I had never seen with a book, took my copy of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich and read it in a week...
...It "That's the way it is," the other girls wouldn't matter if they were about assured her...
...She was ushered into Chapter...
...THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR OCTOBER 1986 25 "My roommate tol ii) I was really getting a bad rep as a troublemaker, and people in the house were wondering whether I was secretly Jewish or what...
...She told me weeks ago I was invited...
...used to be a really good house, got five My Mom would go ape-shit if anyone Jewish girls, Kappa Sig and Sigma Chi around her ever called a Mexican a stopped asking them to their parties, That was before the incident of the emerald earrings...
...That little Jewish boys and girls had their eyes cut out without anesthetics by Nazis...
...His love for French literature and the French countryside cannot be doubted by any-one who has read his published journals...
...The sorority president, no less, demanded to see Marie in Chapter...
...There are a couple of other girls in the house who are half Jewish, and we try to keep it really, really quiet, and they don't go blabbing either...
...His latest book is Her Only Sin (St...
...How do you know...
...I knew that was directed at me," Marie said, "but I really didn't know what it was all about until later that night, after I got back from one of my few trips to the library...
...They went to Kathleen and came up with their own little coup...
...For a few days, I was so dumb I didn't get it...
...She rented Night and Fog and watched it over and over...
...But by the next morning, word was all over the house, with the particularly elegant misstatements typical of youthful gossip...
...She asked Schmooey and my wife to stand in for them, and they did...
...I would have thought they would completely take my side and help me, and at least they would be my pals...
...It's so totally weird," she said...
...For the next few weeks, Alice's tiny room behind the kitchen was Marie's main redoubt for peace and quiet and even some boss ganja...
...She would tell me about how the Nazis would just round up men off the street, and nobody would ever see them again...
...But eventually she calmed down...
...A board of inquiry was immediately convened, and all hot tips were to be reported to Marie's room-mate, Staci...
...I'll tell you what...
...We all worked for weeks on her essay on "California—Where The Good Feeling Never Stops," and Marie was accepted...
...That boy—whom I will call Ted—had once been through a crush on Marie...
...We're going to do you a favor," Kathleen said...
...Tonight...
...As president he visits obscure old friends when they are sick, he never misses a funeral, and he does not forget his friends' widows...
...over a hundred girls, and we can't have Marie's parents would never allow more than two Jewish girls...
...Many Frenchmen have always resented not having a political choice in the center...
...So did Kathleen, Lisa, and Debbie...
...After a flurry of dating, she even had a boyfriend as handsome as she was pretty...
...Someone must have stolen them...
...Marie, an aggressive kid, told the 26 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR OCTOBER 1986 captain that she did not want to be kept waiting, because she was "Schmooey Lipsher's number one writing-partner...
...He had white, even teeth, and he planned to be a stockbroker and have lunch every day at the Jonathan Club, just like Grand-Dad...
...It was just crazy, because I hadn't even been warned about anything before...
...She was, after all, a busy Trojan...
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...Chapter was silent for just a moment as Marie walked out...
...That stinks," Marie said, but she let the matter lie until after dinner...
...Are you crazy...
...You're doing this to me because you think I'm Jewish and I embarrassed you by getting in here pretending not to be Jewish, and now you're gonna have a reputation as a Jewish house...
...A Socialist comeback, in sum, is unlikely, and the prospects for "singing tomorrows" in a vital non-Socialist France are bright...
...Then, all of a sudden, it's for family only, and I can't go, even though three other girls from the house were going...
...This was serious business...
...You have got to be kid-ding," the chairwoman said...
...She talked to all of the rushees, and became particularly friendly with four girls, all from Encino, all Jewish, ". . . all really, really cute and nice, and I thought they would all be great for Gamma Nu...
...Unfortunately, we all know that very little has changed...
...Then, a knot of actives sat around in the chapter room laughing and giggling...
...And I'm not a Gamma Nu anymore...
...I can, report that Marie, and a few friends, now have more meaning in their lives, and that Gamma Nu has had to find a new woman to run the kitchen...
...First of all, my roommate, Staci, was having her twenty-first birthday party at the L.A...
...I have to tell you that after I've seen what Jews put up with here at SC, I would be proud to be Jewish...
...My mother was born in France, before the war, and she met my Dad when he came back to Paris in 1955 for the anniversary of some big battle...
...She had been in the soapy water for fifteen years...
...Yet the consequences of economic turmoil are never wholly predictable...
...I figured it was just to make sure we were really enrolled at SC," she said...
...Not long after the elections the rhetoric and the vocabulary of 1981 returned to Socialist gatherings...
...And she was always telling me about how horrible life was in France, even when she was just a really little girl, under the Nazis...
...It's really embarrassing, and we hope you'll show some consideration for the house and some respect for yourself by just going quietly...
...Then Alice Dow-ling shouted out, "Right on...
...Benjamin J. Stein THE BAD GIRLS OF GAMMA NU The trouble started at USC when they thought Marie was Schmooey Lipsher's daughter...
...In 1980, a team of world-renowned art restorers and historians began the laborious twelve-year task of cleaning and restoring Michelangelo's famous frescoes on the ceilings and walls of the Sistine Chapel...
...to see his family anymore, not ever, and it really made me feel like I was just this little slut girl...
...Because otherwise . . .' But he didn't get to finish that one, because I threw my Margarita right in his face...
...Now I have to tell you that if you are looking for a miracle ending to this story, you are reading the wrong story...
...But he had heard about Marie's treatment—from Marie—and he offered her any help he could...
...Or whether you had given some perfectly nice Jewish girl a memory that'll remind her of Auschwitz for as long as she lives...
...The Marie I had seen when she first bounced through Schmooey Lipsher's door from Pierce was changed...
...Did you ever think about whether there was even any truth at all to all your smears...
...Marie was upset, even wild, for two weeks...
...When Marie walked in to watch the TV, the girls all fell silent and walked out of the room...
...When the girls learned I worked for a Jewish guy, they were always teasing me about it, and was he incredibly cheap to me, and did his wife spend all day doing her nails, and did he, like, cheat on his income taxes all the time," Marie said, "and it really bothered me...
...During his first year as president he gave the Legion of Honor to every one of his fellow students who had lived with him at the same student hostel in Paris...
...The house was so pretty, and most of the time the girls were so nice and so sweet that I couldn't really believe the girls meant what they said, and I just went on with my schoolwork and partying...
...And she had a Jewish girlfriend who had been taken away by the Nazisbeaner or a black person a nigger or anything like that, and that was the way I was brought up...
...As usual, the line of hip young men and women stretched out onto Horn Street...
...and walked with Marie out the door onto Twenty-Eighth Street, down the Bike Path, and into the world...
...fry that one out...
...Marie also had a by no means cool kid from Kappa Sig who was on her side...
...Debbie and Lisa did not like it...
...Lisa showed up in the dining room shrieking that now her grandmother's diamond ring was missing...
...Marie knew it...
...But they were the coldest of any of the girls...
...We aren't racists or anything...
...and not even in this whole country...
...from a house in the Bastille district, already have two Jewish girls in this and the brother came back after the house...
...From my point of view, this was Marie's big moment...
...Because you are a troublemaker, and a pain in the ass," Alice said, "and Jewish girls are always trying to fit in, and you don't give a damn if you fit in...
...Marie and three of her pals from Gam-ma Nu went to Spago for drinks, as they often did...
...Forget it...
...The restoration of the century The dramatic story of the world's most beloved work of art—brought back to life after centuries of neglect...
...Marie had done something unpardonable to the kiddies of Gamma Nu...
...I'm not going to keep it quiet...
...True, such setbacks would not directly imperil the political and military defense of Western Europe against the Soviet menace...
...I'm not Jewish, but I would be proud to be part of people who developed a cure for polio after what the Nazis did to them...
...The war against hatred is won by inches...
...I told you before, and it's true, that Marie is not a shrinking violet...
...South, N.Y., N.Y...
...She also is a journalist and knows curiosity...
...One night Debbie and Lisa and a few other honchos at Gamma Nu came back from drinking with some boys from SAE, who teased them again about becoming a Jewish house, and when were the guys with the big furry hats going to come over and start having prayers in Hebrew and everything...
...Because if there hadn't been Jews, we wouldn't have ovens...
...She had seen the actives come and go...
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...Fortunately wisdom prevailed.' From then on the Mitterrand government pursued an economic policy that could no longer be seriously criticized by the right...
...It so happened that her boss had recently done a favor for Wolfgang Puck, and every waiter at Spago knew his name...
...Marie had a friend in the journalism department who also encouraged her...
...Not a party animal any longer...
...So the way the girls at Gamma Nu talked about Jews really bugged me, and I used to really get into some radical brawls about it...
...More importantly, the French people have good reasons to value him as chief of state and as an individual...
...There was again talk of a "new class alliance," "the matrix of the workers' movement," "the ideology of the dominant classes and nations," "the political work of 'The turmoil of those ten days is described in Serge July's Les Armies Mitterrand (Paris, 1986...
...that he would then dissolve the National Assembly, and that the French people would wish to give him again the parliamentary majority he would need to govern instead of merely to reign...
...Her spare time was—and would always be—spent talking to her pals, shopping, and playing volleyball...
...It was like, now that I was Jewish, I must have had something to do with Lisa's earrings, which was like a total scam from day one anyway...
...There are good reasons for believing that this prognosis is wrong...
...I haven't done a single bad thing to Lisa or Debbie or Staci or anyone...
...If you even think of calling the police for something I didn't do, I'll sue this house and you three bitches for the rest of your lives...
...the pragmatic common sense of the last Socialist government under Prime Minister Fabius, and hence, once again, the integrity of the European Community, would also be endangered...
...Do any of you know" what hap-' pened to Jews forty or fifty years ago...
...You don't want to get known as being too tight with the Jewish girls," she said...
...Sterling Schmidt simply smiled at her and asked, "You know why we have to be thankful for Jews...
...on that score France is sound under whatever government now conceivable...
...Yes," she said...
...A couple of the actives asked me what relation they were, and when I said he was my boss, they seemed very relieved," Marie said...
...He showed couragewhen as a young minister of veteran affairs he fired every Communist senior official in his ministry even though Communists made up the largest political party, with 28 percent of the vote...
...She regularly toked up every day after lunch and stayed toked up until way after dinner...
...The amazing discoveries made during the first four-year phase of the restoration have completely revised our understanding of Michelangelo's art—not only reaffirming his status as one of the greatest artists in history, but exceeding...
...Then I was with him and a few of his ratty little fraternity boy pals at the Nine-Oh, and they were totally drunk, and one of them started to make this joke about how whenever he really wanted a laugh, he would get in his Porsche and drive up and down La Brea and scream in a fake Jewish accent at the old guys with their hats on La Brea...
...He had been with Patton when he liberated Dachau and saw the most logical and horrifying conclusion to which the policies of racism led...
...While Marie would be left alone in the dining room of Gamma Nu, whispered Size 9%" x 12',4 ". $60.00, now at your bookstore, or send check or money order to Crown Publishers, Inc., 225 Park Ave...
...cruise down The Row in his Rolls...
...But now Ted was a friend indeed...
...Alone...
...all past judgments about his genius and skill...
...If you're Jewish, why didn't you rush one of the Jewish houses, like A. E. Phi or some-place like that...
...Just because they were Jews...
...Most of the time, no one but Alice spoke to her in the house...
...And then Sterling, of all people, starts to say his little joke: `Why are we lucky there are Jews...
...Two years after she started, more or less, she decided that she urgently had to go to the University of Southern California...
...The captain did not quite hear, so Marie said, "I'm Schmooey's daughter...
...Then, I noticed that whenever the girls were talking about the emerald earrings thing, if I came down the hall, they would stop talking and give me this really suspicious look...
...When you decide that you'll be soiled if you have three Jewish actives instead of two, did you know you were thinking the same way the Nazis did...
...I'm not gonna put up a billboard on the row, but I'm not keeping it quiet, either...
...We have would cry, too...
...I'm not Jewish...
...It was like, girls would come in and say that Gamma Nu had made a mistake having Jews in the house any-way, because when any of them even came near anything valuable, it was time to forget about it, because it was gone...
...Then everyone will think you're really cheap and they won't want you to come to their houses or anything...
...I'm embarrassed to even be here...
...A few play the racist parts because they are genuinely angry, psychopathic people who should be in prison...
...You can resign, and leave and move out, or we have to go to the police with this...
...It had a huge white facade and columns and a green lawn, and rows of blonde girls with even teeth and pearls and ribbons in their hair...
...I was crazy...
...Her career would be "public relations" and then hostess and wife of a wealthy man...
...Rooftesting" is throwing a stereo or a bicycle or a TV off the roof to see if it will still work after it hits the ground...
...Marie is an irrepressible character...
...missions essay...
...Before the run-in with the Gamma Nu powers, she had been interested overall in boys, cars, clothes, and being richly cool...
...When , which black people or Mexicans, or anyone...
...One of them, this little bitch from Encino, actually told me to my face that I hadscrewed everything up for her, because it just wasn't that cool to be Jewish at SC, and now I had made a big fuss about it, and I was just calling attention to everybody who just wanted to go to USC and have a good time and forget she was Jewish...
...Yes, I am Jewish...
...Sterling Schmidt" was a blond icon from Kappa Sig...
...And he never took me down to PV...
...Marie was completely stunned also by the reaction of the few other Jewish girls in the house...
...Everyone in the house would have to be searched...
...Can you just keep it quiet...
...Every tip that came in said that one of the Jewish girls must have stolen the earrings...
...Besides, the Jewish girls in the house are all real snotty bitches and they never let you borrow their clothes or anything, and they watch every penny, and every-thing...
...Kathleen asked, without preamble, "because if you are, and you like tried to cover it up, it's really going to hurt Gamma Nu...
...One of the worst brawls came in the spring of Marie's first year at USC...
...She would simply force my writing-partner and me to help her write and re-write her essay until it was good enough to get her in...
...Kathleen asked after a heavy pause...
...It was simple, but then they were not deep thinkers...
...After that, for the next few weeks, it was like I was getting some kind of awful silent treatment, or like I was thisreally terrible geek," Marie said...
...Marie asked...
...The first was when a panel of "actives" asked Marie for written documentation of her father's and her mother's names and their parents' names, which was a lot of trouble, but Marie did not really think about it...
...Alice Dow-ling, in the back of the Chapter, gave her a clenched fist salute...
...Even more, I wish I could report that everything is changed along The Row and that a young man's or young woman's character, and not his or her name or complexion, was what counted...
...As soon as she got into USC, Marie pledged a sorority...
...Kathleen and the other officers told her to sit down...
...This is a great school, and you're dragging it in the dirt...
Vol. 19 • October 1986 • No. 10
