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D MAGAZINE SEPTEMBER 1997

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PUBLISHED IN D MAGAZINE SEPTEMBER 1997 OTHER THAN THE ACROPOLIS, IT’S HARD TO FIND SOMETHING more Greek than Southern Methodist University. The Pig Run is about to begin. It’s Saturday afternoon and a crowd of young women-all dressed in jeans and white turtlenecks-has been corralled into a Student Center ballroom on the SMU campus. If the girls like the houses, they wait to be invited back again and again; if they weren’t so impressed, they “cut” the house. At the same time, houses are “cutting” girls they don’t consider “real draws”-worthy pledges. Such is the weeding out process that leaves many girls limping back to the dorms devastated and wondering why they ever wanted to go through such a humiliating time consuming two semester rigged legacy dominated ordeal. It’s extremely difficult to find out how many girls in each house have legacies-although all of the houses give priority to the girls who do. One of the questions on a Rush application asks if the girl has a legacy; if she does, she’ll get “points” for it later in the selection process. Ashley is not a Big Three legacy and her mother says it was nearly “the kiss of death.” “I would never let a child do that again [go through SMU Rush without being a legacy],” she says. “It can get very mean when adults are involved in the process and end up hurting a child.” Hurting them emotionally, socially, academically and her family financially.