Word: frats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hand of the administration reaches even into the traditional hangout of freedom, the fraternity. Dean Peters last year introduced the novel idea of having a resident adviser in the various frat houses. "Ten fraternities have done this voluntarily; with the great improvement this practice has brought about, we hope it will grow and expand," Peters says. Still, for all its committees and representatives, the Dean's office likes to posture itself as a benevolent despot. Peters explains, "There is a certain number of necessary rules. We try to interfere as little as possible with student affairs...
...fraternities have made abortive attempts to become independent, and two others are about to try to denationalize. The financial and doctrinal pressure of the national chapters rankles on "fraternity row," and St. Elmo's, for example, declared itself independent after the mother chapter deplored its snobbishness and disrespect of frat pins...
...long as initiations remain, all the fun of joining a Yale fraternity has not vanished. The initiation ceremonies are generally divided into two evenings, the "informals," and the "formals." Whereas these rituals vary from frat to frat, or rather from fraternity to fraternity (the word "frat" is considered at New Haven to have an unfortunate midwestern flavor), a pledge who enjoyed the following informal would not feel especially distinguished...
Members of the university administration, when explaining why they are in favor of the fraternities, can usually be counted upon to begin by reciting figures. The average scholastic standing of frat members they state, is higher than that of the student body as a whole...
Pranksters, frat brothers, and Brown and White editors seem to anticipate restrictive policy changes in the Dean's Office. Dean Leith, on the other hand, says this: "Lehigh is an educational institution dedicated to high quality performances. This proposition explains almost everything about the university, including the persistent intolerance of everything that is second-rate...