Word: kappas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...expected to become a person," she was confronted instead with "the snobbery and cruelty of the sorority system at its worst." In a college that was then geared to producing Rotarians and garden-club members, her intellectual gifts were a handicap. Her atrocious clothes did not help: to a Kappa rushing party, she wore a dress of her own design; it suggested a wheatfield with poppies. Her sponsor turned her back at the sight, and Margaret found the evening "strangely confusing" because she did not then know that everyone had been given a signal to ignore her. The ostracism lasted...
Members of the Graduate School of Education's chapter of Phi Delta Kappa organized a women's caucus Wednesday to protest the national leadership's policy of excluding women...
...School's women's caucus decided to solicit help from the American Civil Liberties Union in studying possible legal action against International Phi Delta Kappa, a fraternity for educators...
Barcus said the caucus hopes it can obtain publicity in prominent women's magazines for their cases. She added that they will send letters to the more than 250 campus chapters of Phi Delta Kappa asking them to join the protest...
...What we find in education today is that men dominate in all power positions. Men now have by memberships in Phi Delta Kappa extra prestige. To add women to the ranks will help nullify that inequity," he said