Word: sigma
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first time in 53 years, 35 Harvard undergraduates were initiated as members of the national fraternity Sigma Alpha Mu's Lambda chapter on Monday night, officers of the local group said yesterday...
...turned out, no. At a Sigma Alpha Epsilon convention in Cincinnati last summer, Rothschild created such a vulgar scene complaining to the hotel desk that his fraternity brothers decided to check into his background. They learned that another guy named Rothschild had pulled off some funny business at the SAE chapter in Berkeley years before. After they demanded that he prove his identity, Maurice skipped town. He showed up in Bronxville, N.Y., to pick up his belongings from a rented room and has not been sighted since...
...cosmetic interest in community service and demonstrates a constant lack of concern for the Black community both here and beyond the confines of Johnston Gate, a pat on the back from the administration may be the last thing we need. The Members of: Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity...
...worried about what it would mean for the fraternity. Brown said little, though he let it be known that he was unwilling to finesse the issue by accepting house privileges without full membership. Finally, the fraternity brothers rallied around and initiated him. As a result, the national headquarters of Sigma Phi revoked the chapter's charter. Middlebury responded by barring any fraternity with racial barriers. Eventually, all the college's fraternities repealed their exclusionary clauses...
Many of those involved in choosing a new party chairman say -- as did the frat brothers at Sigma Phi -- that they like Brown personally but worry about the effect his election would have on the party. "Ron is a great guy, talented, intelligent and articulate," says Senator John Breaux of Louisiana. "But I think he's the wrong person at the wrong time and the wrong symbol." Brown refers to this as his "but" problem. "My goal is to make it more difficult for people...