The Freedom Writers Diary

This student describes her sorority’s hazing process. She finds herself watching the most popular boys at school yell sexual insults at the freshmen girls and tell them to touch their balls. This student remembers her own process of joining the sorority. Out of sheer luck, she was able to avoid many of the pledge nights, where the freshmen girls were forced to sing to the senior boys’ exposed genitals, sit on the boys’ laps, and kiss them. At the time, she hadn’t realized how humiliating and degrading this entire process was.

Now that she is supposedly “popular” and watches the process herself, she sees the violence and contempt with which the boys treat the girls, without any interference on the part of the sorority girls. This student doesn’t understand why she did not stand up to this injustice, which she calls a torture. As a Freedom Writer, she feels ashamed to have let this happen. She decides to leave the sorority. She concludes that the concept of popularity is meaningless and that she does not want to be part of a group that actively humiliates other people.