Word: nu
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Stanford University's Lambda Nu fraternity house, complains Junior Dan Stone, 20, "our most cohesive social function is watching Walter Cronkite." Next fall the fraternity's social life should get a big lift. With the University's consent, the 30 brothers living at Lambda Nu will welcome 20 coeds as "associates" who will sleep and eat in the fraternity, participate in its activities and, predicts one brother, monopolize the house's lone telephone...
...Lambda Nu's men and women will share the dining room, living room and other facilities of the fraternity's handsome house overlooking Lake Lagunita. The coeds' sleeping quarters will occupy a wing conveniently separated from the rest of the house by a fire door and by corridors leading to the common rooms. There will be no housemother, though a male university administrator, who now lives in the house as a "resident assistant," will continue to oversee its activities...
...admission of women to Lambda Nu comes at a time when several Stanford dormitories are also converting to coed living. In allowing Lambda Nu to become the campus' first coed fraternity, Stanford stipulated that the women must be selected by random draw among those who sign up rather than by any selective "rush." After the first year, Lambda Nu has promised to select its men by draw as well...
...house from which the shots came, Sigma Nu, is a chapter of a national fraternity which bars the admission of Negroes and Jews...
Once again the troublemaker was Rumania's Ceausescu, the rising independent who had cried foul at Russia's takeover of the Budapest conference two weeks ago and ordered his delegation home. In Sofia, he had further grievances to air, starting with the nu clear nonproliferation treaty now being negotiated in Geneva; the Rumanians think that any treaty should curb stockpiling among nuclear haves and provide tight protection for have-nots like themselves. Also, as the. only Communist there on friendly terms with West Germany and Israel, Ceausescu gave notice that he would not join in the usual attacks...