A seven-second dancing video was all it took for a student at Louisiana State University to lose her position in her sorority.
“Rules for thee, not for me, when it comes to Alpha Phi,” said former member Emily Hines after the video she posted got her dismissed from the collegiate chapter.
The video at the center of the controversy featured Hines dancing behind a photo of U.S. Assistant Secretary for Health Rachel Levine, the first openly transgender Biden administration official, as the song More Than a Woman by the Bee Gees played in the background.
“More than a woman, more than a woman to me” are the words Hines can be seen lip-synching in the video she uploaded on popular social media app TikTok.
Then, she received an email from the Alpha Phi International Fraternity Delta Tau Judiciary Board to discuss the video’s contents and to request that she delete it.
“If a member doesn’t remove it after 12 hours, they can be summoned to a Judiciary Board Hearing,” Hines explained, noting her situation was handled differently than previous instances. “I was given 4.5 hours.”
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Hines said that she met with four executive board members of Alpha Phi, including the chapter president, the chapter adviser, the vice president of member recruitment, and the vice president of health, wellness, and accountability, on Zoom.
“The chapter adviser crossed a line by telling me what my own intentions were,” she said.
“As she put it, I was intending to belittle and demean someone for their beliefs,” Hines added. “She also told me that my video was widely viewed as offensive.”
The student said she did not regret the video but regretted joining the sorority to begin with.
“They asked if I was remorseful at all, and I said I regret wearing the [Alpha Phi] sweatshirt but was not going to apologize for my beliefs,” Hines told Breitbart News.
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According to Hines, the decision came down to censorship.
“It’s just them trying to censor the opposition out of existence, but it does the exact opposite, by fueling conservative voices to speak out even more and louder,” the student said.
The LSU student describes herself as a conservative and is an active chapter member of Turning Point USA.
“We’ve got a massive movement of conservatives that are fed up, and I can’t wait to see it continue to grow,” she said.
Alpha Phi did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the Washington Examiner.
Last year, a student at the University of Texas at San Antonio was kicked out of her sorority for posting a TikTok video that briefly displayed the phrase “All Lives Matter.”
