Word: sigma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...member of Kappa Sigma I have nothing to say in the defense of the actions of our late U.S.C. chapter [Sept. 28] and I would be ashamed if any K Sig did come to their defense. You rightly call Dick Swanson a victim, and I agree with his brother's indictment of the chapter's actions...
...must, however, protest one thing. What you called a ritual may very well be one, but it is not the Kappa Sigma ritual that all our 80,000 members have participated...
...candlelight, the brothers gathered in the Kappa Sigma fraternity house at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. With swelling pride, they chanted occult jargon and Tom Sawyerish vows. With stern mien, one night last week they launched an ancient rite: the not-so-gentle art of hazing new members before accepting them into the fraternity with its friendships and parties...
Shocked university officials suspended Kappa Sigma from the campus, put all 49 members on probation. The house was shut down for good, the first such action in U.S.C. history. Said grieving Arthur L. Swanson, Dick's dentist brother: "Those boys are guilty of taking my brother's life...
...Publishers Association, chairman of the Associated Press nominating committee, a member of the National Conference of Editorial Writers, the National Press Club and the American Society of Newspaper Editors, topping it all off with a long list of trusteeships, directorships, honorary posts and the job of national treasurer of Sigma Delta Chi, the professional journalism fraternity...