The Delta Zeta house at DePauw University in Indiana is looking rather empty after 23 women were forced to move out of the chapter house in January.

Firsthand accounts of justification for removing certain members are surfacing. The message is pretty nauseating.

Joanna Kieschnick, a DePauw junior and former Delta Zeta sister, told CNN she and her sorority sisters were told by Delta Zeta’s national leaders, “You need to be more sexually appealing; you need to make the guys want you.”

In another report, “sisters allege that the 23 expelled included overweight, black and Asian members, while the sorority kept members who were popular with fraternity boys.”

Six of the 12 remaining women were so enraged that their sorority sisters were asked to leave that they also quit.

Greek organizations often claim they are misrepresented. This may be the fruit of one biased sorority president, yet it unfortunately conveys a disturbing message in the name of Delta Zeta, despite its other non-discriminatory chapters.

It perpetuates an ideal that parents, psychologists and teachers have tried so hard to abolish.

While what happened at DePauw may be an isolated incident, the message it gave to young girls is that conforming to be liked is still an American value. Not all Delta Zeta chapters have promoted such garbage, but unfortunately they must now refute claims that they, too, sponsor this discrimination.

For DePauw’s chapter: You claim to be a sisterhood. We suggest you rethink your image of family and how you’d react if your daughter were told she were too fat, too quiet or too sexually inexperienced to belong.