Word: charter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...betraying its own conscience and remaining exclusively male only so that it may keep its national charter, Sigma Alpha Mu faces the problem every new national fraternity attempting to start at Harvard must deal with: do the benefits of national recognition really outweigh the inability of local officers and members to dictate their own organizations...
...have final say over all matters of operation, since they are bound by national guidelines. The members of Sigma Alpha Mu ran into this very problem. Although the majority of its members supported coed membership, the organization could not include women for fear of losing its national charter. It is precisely for this reason that the Harvard administration originally did away with recognition of national organizations...
Kahn, who needed only 10 signatures to obtain a University charter that officially recognizes the Society of Nerds and Geeks, was pleasantly surprised at the turnout of 19 interested people...
Eastern Airlines spokesperson Karen Ceremsak in Miami said the carrier flew a special Boeing 727 charter to the Dominican resort of Puerto Plata yesterday and returned to Miami with about 135 vacationers...
...council eventually overturned its decision after a contentious week that electrified the campus. It made its decision on the basis of its charter and University policy, which prohibit campus groups from discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation. But underlying the council's discussion was in part the principle of education free from military influence, and in part the insistence on equality based on a historical legacy left over from a Civil Rights era a quarter century past...