AdvertisementTUSCALOOSA, Ala. — When Marina Anderson was accused of recording herself inside a party and told she was being dismissed from rushing any sorority, she was so shocked that she offered to have her body searched for a microphone.“I begged them,” she said in an interview, referring to her accusers. But that was the end of her run this sorority rush week at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa.Ms. Anderson, 18, is one of more than 2,500 students who came to campus early to participate in recruitment, the formal name for the weeklong process in which women vie for spots in one of...…AdvertisementTUSCALOOSA, Ala. — When Marina Anderson was accused of recording herself inside a party and told she was being dismissed from rushing any sorority, she was so shocked that she offered to have her body searched for a microphone.“I begged them,” she said in an interview, referring to her accusers. But that was the end of her run this sorority rush week at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa.Ms. Anderson, 18, is one of more than 2,500 students who came to campus early to participate in recruitment, the formal name for the weeklong process in which women vie for spots in one of...WW…

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Things you buy through our links may earn New York a commission.This article was originally published on August 20 and has been updated multiple times to include information about Cuties’ release, including the most recent news that Texas state representative Matt Schaefer tweeted a filing for an indictment against Netflix for promoting “lewd material” in Cuties.Before Cuties arrived on Netflix in the United States, the French-language film from writer-director Maïmouna Doucouré, about an 11-year-old Senegalese immigrant named Amy, garnered an unusual amount of attention. Although...…Things you buy through our links may earn New York a commission.This article was originally published on August 20 and has been updated multiple times to include information about Cuties’ release, including the most recent news that Texas state representative Matt Schaefer tweeted a filing for an indictment against Netflix for promoting “lewd material” in Cuties.Before Cuties arrived on Netflix in the United States, the French-language film from writer-director Maïmouna Doucouré, about an 11-year-old Senegalese immigrant named Amy, garnered an unusual amount of attention. Although...WW…