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Archie C. Epps III, dean of students, Wednesday denied the Harvard chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE)permission to participate in a canoe race sponsored by Anheuser-Busch, a beer company, because of University regulations forbidding use of Harvard's name in connection with a commercial business...
Anheuser-Busch, the largest beer company in the world, last week invited the Harvard chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE) to participate in a 72-hour canoe marathon in Los Angeles next February...
Next-door neighbors of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon house at the University of Miami were dumbfounded recently at the sight of the fraternity's flagpole. There, billowing in the breeze, was a frilly assortment of coeds' panties and bras. Such pranks, common to college life of the '50s and early '60s, had pretty much died out in recent years with the advent of student protests, a more serious campus mood and the near demise of fraternities. But now, fraternities-and their high jinks-are back in full force on campus...
...fraternities of the '70s have taken on some new dimensions. Though parties and interhouse sporting events are still popular, there is a growing interest in community projects. Last fall Miami's Alpha Epsilon Phi and its sister sorority, Delta Zeta, held a "showerthon"-during which students took showers for 360 straight hours in an especially rigged bathtub on the street-and raised more than $1,500 for the American Cancer Society. At the University of Kansas, the Interfraternity Council has assumed sponsorship of the semiannual campus blood drive...
Simon grew up on the New Jersey coast, the scion of a family that had become wealthy in the silk-dyeing industry in Paterson, but took a bath in the Depression; his father was an insurance broker. At Lafayette College, Simon was pledgemaster of Delta Kappa Epsilon, and he plumped up his slender funds with odd jobs and winnings at poker.He also ate enough and drank enough beer to put more than 200 Ibs. on his 5-ft. 11-in. frame. Then he doggedly swam 25 to 30 laps a day at a local Y.M.C.A. pool until...