Word: delta
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...alumnus and faculty adviser of Delta Upsilon, I would rather have a black or yellow gentleman for a fraternity brother than a white jerk; and I do have brothers from all three races. But when any outsider tries to force my own or any other fraternity [June 25] to change its constitution or take in anyone whom it does not want, then he has me to fight...
...first time since the '30s, Negro field hands are striking on the cotton plantations of western Mississippi, where the pay is $3 a day and the hours are dawn to dusk. Ardently promoting the strike and helping to organize a union of the fieldworkers is the Delta Ministry, set up by the National Council of Churches last September to work for social and economic justice for Negroes and achieve a "reconciliation" of the races in Mississippi...
...reconciling process has led only to bitter antagonism-at least in Greenville, center of the strike. There, a ministry preacher tells field hands that "the white man is your enemy," and the Delta Project has managed to alienate not merely unswervable segregationists but white and Negro moderates as well...
...this day at least four fraternities - Sigma Chi, Phi Gamma Delta, Alpha Tau Omega and Phi Delta Theta - either have switched to constitutional euphemisms or have reached unwritten "gentlemen's agreements" that require members to be "socially acceptable" to all other members. A member pledged in California, for example, must not be likely to offend a member in Alabama. A fifth, Sigma Nu, still retains a "whites only" clause, but has permitted chapters, if pressured by college officials, to request special dispensation to admit Negroes. Sigma Chi requires national approval of every member by a screening committee supplied with...
...Communists have special respect for Lieut. Commander Nguyen Thanh Chau, 32, and his 25th River Assault Group, a flotilla of gunboats headquartered at Cantho, 100 miles southwest of Saigon, but ranging through the whole delta. Born in the delta district, Chau knows every bridge, every bend in the waterways, every likely crossing point for Communist guerrillas. Chau prefers to conduct his fire fights with the Reds from the bridge of his command ship, a gunned-up LCM. "It's too hot below," says he, "and you can't see anything." Over the past year, Chau has lost only...