Word: psi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Regarding Northwestern University's chapter of Psi Upsilon and the depledged freshman, Sherman Wu [Nov. 12]: As an American and an N.U. graduate, I am outraged at the arrogance of Psi U and at the university for allowing such a disgrace to occur...
...Psi Upsilon Fraternity has shamed its university and disgraced its country before the whole world...
Approach Gingerly. Even as a tubby kid enduring the snickering nickname "Podge," Parry O'Brien had always organized his life with a kind of compulsive neatness. Now he rearranged it methodically around an iron ball. Fraternity brothers in Phi Kappa Psi remember how he painted a shotput circle in the alley outside the fraternity house, to practice his technique-even at night. "You had to approach O'Brien gingerly," recalls one brother. "The thing was, you never knew whether he had just let go of the shot and it was headed in your direction...
White supremacy came, as it seems to come to many U.S. college fraternities, to Northwestern University's chapter of Psi Upsilon, which has no racial-discrimination provision in its charter. The victim: Sherman Wu, a freshman and son of Nationalist China's onetime (1949-53) Formosan Governor K. C. Wu (Grinnell '23). Young Sherman, a bright and ingratiating chap, had been pledged by Psi U, broken bread with his fraternity brothers, even had his picture taken with them. But nobody told Wu that eight of his fellow pledges, all equally desirable fellows, had turned thumbs down...
After grappling manfully with their financial threat, the Psi-Uers depledged Sherman Wu. Without a sign of protest, he turned in his fraternity pin. Just to make Wu's blackballing official, the Psi-Uers had themselves photographed again, this time with an unbroken symmetry of white, 100% American faces...