Scott Says

Tomorrow night the sorority girls of the future will be out in packs, roving from house to house to watch dance routines overly choreographed to mockups of sort-of-popular songs. The whole thing is a ludicrous and outdated process that treats potential new members with patronizing condescension. That formal sorority recruitment can exist in 2007 when fraternity rush offers so much freedom is proof of how far the women’s liberation movement still has to go.

To join a house, a young woman must schlep to 20 houses during a 12-hour period on Friday and Saturday nights, at each one watching an overly choreographed dance routine set to a lame parody of a once-popular song. (”Our humps, our humps our humps our humps, our lovely sisterhood lumps.”) Sorority sisters waste an obscene amount of time during the first few weeks of the school year perfecting dance steps and rhyme schemes. (more…)

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, former governor of Massachusetts, is a Mormon. And it might cost him the election.

According to a Nov. 2006 Rasmussen poll, 43 percent of Americans would never consider voting for a Mormon candidate. Only 38 percent said they “would ever” consider casting a ballot for a Latter-day Saint. Time magazine gave Romney’s religion a 2,000-word story in an issue with his face on the cover. This focus on piety is especially striking considering the relative lack of controversy surrounding the first major female and black candidates. (more…)

Okay, technically my first column ran last week in the DI’s “Welcome Back” edition, but this will be the first one to run with my picture, and probably the first one that people will read. It addresses the issue of religion in politics, specifically why people shouldn’t not vote for Mitt Romney because he is Mormon. It’s a little heavier than a lot of the stuff I plan to write for my column - including a fake sex column that parodies stereotypical bad college newspaper sex advisers - but in my opinion, it’s the best commentary I’ve ever written. But you be the judge. Read the Daily Illini this Thursday.

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