A University of Nebraska Omaha student was kicked out of her sorority for a “provocative” picture on her Tinder profile.
To Shannon Workman and her mother Jill, the picture seemed innocent enough: she was smiling between her big and her little in a Bid Day tank top that read “Sweet Home Chi Omega.”
But it was the sorority’s letters on Tinder that ticked off the group, the upset mother told the Daily News.
Chi Omega has a “Human Dignity” rule, stating that sisters would not post photos wearing their letters on any platform that would bring “disrespect to the chapter,” she said.
“There’s no way she could read that rule and see it apply to Tinder,” Jill said. “It’s not different from Facebook or any other site.”
Shannon, a senior at the school, was called for a meeting with the sorority’s new executive board, where she started questioning the rule.
She had already removed the picture from her Tinder profile, and did not know why she was still in trouble. Feeling suspicious, she secretly recorded the meeting.
“I am just being honest. I don’t see where I’m in the wrong here,” Shannon said in the conversation.
The sorority called the photo “provocative” and “risqué,” and claimed Shannon was being disrespectful, combative and having a bad attitude for disagreeing.
At the end of the discussion, Shannon was kicked out of the sorority she had been a member of for three years.
“She told them, ‘I’m never coming back,’” her mother Jill said.
The two girls she posed with in the picture have also left Chi Omega.
In March, the sorority had gone through a complete restructuring, with the president and most members in charge kicked out, Shannon’s mother said. A few other girls had also been reprimanded for wearing the letters in their Tinder profile pictures.
Other former members said the sorority’s new management has gone under draconian measures to kick out other members.
Lacey McPhail, another former Chi Omega sister at the school's chapter, wrote on Facebook that there are "corrupt goings on of this 'Christian' sorority," shortly after she was kicked out.
"Since I have been removed I know of at least 10 other girls who have been removed for dating profiles, liking tweets/statuses, going to a party, and similar, very common college activities," she wrote. "These successful, bright young women were given only ONE (1) personnel meeting, which is generally considered a 'warning' meeting before being removed."
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