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...member of Kappa Sigma I have nothing to say in the defense of the actions of our late U.S.C. chapter [Sept. 28] and I would be ashamed if any K Sig did come to their defense. You rightly call Dick Swanson a victim, and I agree with his brother's indictment of the chapter's actions...
...must, however, protest one thing. What you called a ritual may very well be one, but it is not the Kappa Sigma ritual that all our 80,000 members have participated...
...candlelight, the brothers gathered in the Kappa Sigma fraternity house at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. With swelling pride, they chanted occult jargon and Tom Sawyerish vows. With stern mien, one night last week they launched an ancient rite: the not-so-gentle art of hazing new members before accepting them into the fraternity with its friendships and parties...
Shocked university officials suspended Kappa Sigma from the campus, put all 49 members on probation. The house was shut down for good, the first such action in U.S.C. history. Said grieving Arthur L. Swanson, Dick's dentist brother: "Those boys are guilty of taking my brother's life...
...youngest land-grant college president. What he got for the honor was a stepchild institution, utterly straitjacketed by the state's frugal division of personnel and standardization, which controlled teachers and salaries by the same procedures applied to road building. The setup was so suffocating that Phi Beta Kappa refused to charter a Massachusetts University chapter...