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Grace Kelly Cook, a self-proclaimed "science geek," starts college by allowing her roommate to help with a makeover, kissing a cute boy, and pledging a sorority, but she fears what will happen when others learn that she lied about her family connections and is only sixteen.

Explores the problems of hazing and binge drinking at fraternities and sororities on American college campuses, telling the stories of some of the young people who have been seriously injured or died as a result of such behaviors; and offers a list of recommendations for reform.

Contains essays in which experts from a range of disciplines discuss hazing behaviors, featuring selections from writers in the fields of social science, law, medicine, student affairs, journalism, counseling, athletic administration, and cultural studies.

Explores the problems of hazing and binge drinking at fraternities and sororities on American college campuses, telling the stories of some of the young people who have been seriously injured or died as a result of such behaviors; and offers a list of recommendations for reform.

While working undercover on a series of stories for her campus newspaper, college freshman Maggie reluctantly endures mixers, rites, and peculiar rules, but soon learns that members of the sorority to which she has pledged have strange powers and a terrible secret.

Phoebe Matthews, a member of the Alpha Sigma Pi sorority, enlists friends Miranda and Camille in a plot to humiliate pledge Shandra James who has set her sights on Phoebe's fiance, but when Shandra's body turns up days later, the Alpha sisters--and the police--begin to wonder if Phoebe went too far.

The author chronicles her year undercover in a college sorority, describing the abusive and dangerous behavior she witnessed and examining the reasons sorority sisters act the way they do.