For eight days before hordes of young women at Louisiana State University lined up outside the houses on sorority row to make their bids to get in last week, sorority sisters spent 12 hours a day preparing to welcome — and ruthlessly vet — the next generation of wannabe Greek leaders. The older students perfected their “bouncing and clapping” cheers to welcome the prospective members, refreshed themselves on the 1-to-10 ranking system they would use to evaluate them, staged mock rushes with other chapters — and, of course, churned out perfectly curated social-media content every step of the way.
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