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Hello and welcome back to Cold Leader, I'm your cold leader Spencer Henry, and this week's

episode is probably going to be the first of many as we start looking into the world of

sorority scandals.

And no, that's not just the name of a lifetime movie, although it would make a good one.

Actually, I'm pretty sure there is one already.

This was something that I've been wanting to look into for a while.

I was actually talking to Madison today, and she was like, oh, what are you working on?

What's coming up on cult leader?

And I was like, finally, we're getting to sororities, and she was like, yes, I've been waiting

for you to talk about this, because her and I have both always been kind of interested

in that world.

There's a lot of mystery around it.

Both sororities and fraternities have long been a staple of universities across America,

and their origin state pretty far back, like really far back.

The first American Greek letter fraternity, Pai Beta Kappa, was founded on December 5th

of 1776, at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, 17-fucking-76,

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