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When arsonists destroyed the all-Black Phi Beta Sigma fraternity this summer, Ole Miss rose up in arms...
Administrators and students say while the arson is evidence that racism remains a problem at Ole Miss, it has helped bring needed attention to the problem. "The attitude on campus toward integration has changed very slowly," said Associate Dean of Students Thomas J. "Rusty" Reardon, who has held the post for 11 years. "Racism is very subtle. This was an opportunity for students to see how ugly and brutal racism really...
Like many other colleges, such as MIT and the University of Virginia, the vast majority of fraternities and sororities at Ole Miss are still all-Black or all-white. The 13-year-old Phi Beta Sigma is the only Black fraternity to have its own house. It became the first Black fraternity on campus when it was founded in 1975. There are now three Black sororities and four Black fraternities...
About 40 percent of Ole Miss students are members of fraternities and sororities...
Suddenly, then, Thailand has been thrown into the spotlight like a freshly discovered starlet. Thai restaurants have become the trendy's choice from Kansas City to Tokyo, and the newly crowned Miss Universe is a Thai (though a resident of what Thais call their 74th province, California). SPORTS ILLUSTRATED posed this year's splashy swimsuit issue on Thailand's beaches, and a new Orient Express is scheduled to start its luxury runs from Bangkok to Singapore in less than two years. As fast as Thailand has come to Hollywood (there are scores of Thai restaurants on Melrose Avenue alone), Hollywood...