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Voice-over: "George W. Bush. First pick for kick-ball. First pick for Delta Kappa Epsilon. First pick for president...
When a black college freshman applied to join Alpha Gamma Delta at the University of Georgia last August, most members of the all-white sorority were horrified. As they gathered inside their neoclassical mansion to discuss the new applicants, the sisters of AGD singled out the black freshman and talked about her separately. "Why does she want to go through white rush?" asked a sorority member. Another warned, "If we had a black girl in our sorority, none of the fraternities would want to do anything with...
When a black college freshman applied to join Alpha Gamma Delta at the University of Georgia last August, most members of the all-white sorority were horrified. As they gathered inside their neoclassical mansion to discuss the new applicants, the sisters of AGD singled out the black freshman and talked about her separately. "Why does she want to go through white rush?" asked a sorority member. Another warned, "If we had a black girl in our sorority, none of the fraternities would want to do anything with...
...most remarkable statistics in the Kaiser report showed large shifts in the desires of parents in the last two decades. A similar survey done in 1981 by the Gallup Organization, on behalf of the Phi Delta Kappa association of professional educators, showed 84 percent believed high schools should teach about sexually transmitted diseases. This figure jumped to 98 percent in the Kaiser report...
Certainly, the group at greatest fault is Phi Gamma Delta, the fraternity Krueger was rushing at the time of his death. But MIT's "hands-off" attitude toward its fraternities and social clubs is also to blame. Universities should be willing to subject these groups to greater scrutiny, particularly when they are suspected of questionable or dangerous practices. Indeed, Krueger is actually the second student this decade to die at a Phi Gamma Delta party: In 1993, over-intoxication caused Jeff Knoll to fall three stories to his death at a party thrown by the fraternity's University of Nebraska...