On the last day of sorority rush, hundreds of women in sundresses and sandals lined up outside a massive football stadium. It was bid day, also known as "squeal day"- the fifth and final stage of rush when sororities announce their new members - and the women were a sea of makeup, perfume, and nervous energy. The sororities' houses nearby were festooned with banners and a large crowd, filled with friends and family bearing cameras and bouquets, had gathered. At 3 o'clock the rushees, some of them pausing to hug their parents one last time, filled into the stadium to learn their fates (Zengerle).

Viewpoints of sororities differ. Some feel sorrow for sororities as arranged positions of old-fashioned feminine roles. Some cheer them as entangling characters of the postmodern female society. But either way, the powerful influence, both good and bad, that sororities have on campus can't be...