Americas top party college rocked by sorority girl scandal as California sisters go scorched earth: We all noticed

A sorority scandal has erupted at one of America’s most notorious party schools after members accused an outside recruitment adviser of sidelining women of color, sparking a furious showdown inside their California chapter house. Sisters of the Alpha Phi sorority at the University of California, Santa Barbara, say they were left stunned when Black women and other women of color were allegedly excluded from recruitment activities while prospective members from diverse backgrounds mysteriously disappeared from the selection pool, according to the Daily Nexus.The explosive allegations have rocked the coastal campus, with outrage spilling onto social media and sorority sisters turning against the very leadership brought in to help them recruit new members.“All of us started to notice,” chapter president Alana Nielsen told the student newspaper.“It was not just one.

It was not just a few.It was not just the women of color.

It was all of us.”The drama began during fall recruitment in late September, when Alpha Phi International sent three representatives to oversee the chapter’s annual rush process.Among them was a volunteer recruitment adviser who was also a UCSB Alpha Phi alumna and had assisted the chapter for the previous two years.Roughly 1,200 hopefuls initially participated in recruitment, according to the Santa Barbara News-Press.But after the first round on Sept.26, sorority members were reportedly ordered to leave while the outside representatives determined which candidates would advance. When the sisters returned, the pool had reportedly shrunk to approximately 250 women and members immediately noticed something troubling.“There was a large and noticeably diverse group of women who were missing from the pool of potential new members that had returned,” Nielsen told the Daily Nexus.The apparent shake-up was especially baffling because members had reportedly been told that roughly 90% of prospective recruits mutually wanted to return to Alph...