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Sweetheart of Sigma Chi. It was a sweetheart deal of Sigma Chi that spurred the ruling. In the late '30s, nearly all of the 61 major social fraternities carried exclusion clauses in their constitutions, typically limiting member ship to "whites of full Aryan blood" or "Christian Caucasians," and banning "the black, Malay, Mongolian or Semitic races." Discrimination first became a hot campus issue in 1946 when Amherst College bluntly ordered its 13 fraternity chapters to purge themselves of bias or close their doors. By 1955, largely because of pressure from college administrations, only ten specific discrimination clauses remained...
Eddie Amsel is fat, clever, half-Jewish. Walter Matern is lean, brooding, half-heartedly Aryan. Matern protects Amsel when other schoolboys mock his fatness or yell "sheeny." He cannot tell why he does this, nor why sometimes he squirms away from his obligation to protect and yells "sheeny" himself. The unbreakable and intolerable bond between the two friends-one not wholly a Jew or admirable, the other not wholly an Aryan or despicable-gives the book its symbolic structure...
...Aryan, Not Arab
...Hitler, Lieut. General Karl Wolff was the very model of the Aryan SS general. To Himmler, his immediate superior, he was affectionately known as "Wolfie." But to American intelligence officers at the top-level P.W. camp at Gmunden in 1945, the tall, blond, aristocratic Wolff was a fascinating and highly valuable German patriot-"the white sheep" of the dreaded...
...short-pants set won't remember him, but those who pause for breath after climbing a flight of steps recall Jesse Owens, the Negro track-and-field star whose four gold medals left his Aryan hosts at the post during the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Owens is 51 now, a Chicago marketing consultant, but, torch in hand, he puffed a few Manhattan blocks in track shorts to set the pace for 3,500 relay runners in a 3,100-mile cross-country "Run for the Money," to raise $1,000,000 for the 1964 U.S. Olympic team...