Word: frats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While talking to a group of frat members, I referred to a 22-year-old female acquaintance as a woman. The brothers looked at me incredulously. "They're girls here," explained...
...weeks that followed, there was an intense debate at the frat house. Everyone liked Ron and agreed that he would make a good member, but they worried about what it would mean for the fraternity. Brown said little, though he let it be known that he was unwilling to finesse the issue by accepting house privileges without full membership. Finally, the fraternity brothers rallied around and initiated him. As a result, the national headquarters of Sigma Phi revoked the chapter's charter. Middlebury responded by barring any fraternity with racial barriers. Eventually, all the college's fraternities repealed their exclusionary...
Many of those involved in choosing a new party chairman say -- as did the frat brothers at Sigma Phi -- that they like Brown personally but worry about the effect his election would have on the party. "Ron is a great guy, talented, intelligent and articulate," says Senator John Breaux of Louisiana. "But I think he's the wrong person at the wrong time and the wrong symbol." Brown refers to this as his "but" problem. "My goal is to make it more difficult for people...
...room is straight out of an Ohio State frat house--the television blares the Monday Night Football Game, a kegerator and a bar sit over on the side. Posters of...um...some posters, line the walls...
...People in the Greek system are saying the incident was no big deal," but other students are outraged, he said. Senior Amy Miller said the frat "probably didn't have bad intentions," but that its actions were "really stupid...