Word: phi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last winter, the university's Phi Gamma Delta fraternity advertised a tropical island party with a Black caricature on a sign on its front lawn. The incident resulted in scuffles between minority students and Phi Gamma Delta members...
...focused and less obsessed with competing than their teenage counterparts, who are apt to fret over grades and whether they have a date on Saturday night. An impressive 21% of the 443 graduates of Smith College's Ada Comstock Program, which enrolls women 22 and older, are holders of Phi Beta Kappa keys; 45% walk away with honors. Says Eleanor Rothman, director of the eleven-year-old program: "These women know what they are doing...
When arsonists destroyed the all-Black Phi Beta Sigma fraternity this summer, Ole Miss rose up in arms...
Bernard Cowles, a member of Phi Delta Theta which is adjacent to the new Black fraternity house, agreed. "There is lots of racism. Usually nothing you can see visibly, but you can feel it--my gosh, was it expressed last month...
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...