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Rich Halvorson is pretty liberal—for a guy from Idaho. The intensely conservative Christian philosopher is also an actor with plans to take a shot at Hollywood stardom post-graduation, a Sigma Chi, an aspiring male model and a man known to occasionally drink coffee with random homeless strangers at ABP. But his favorite talking point is religion...
Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott helped lead a successful battle to prevent his college fraternity from admitting blacks to any of its chapters, in a little-known incident now four decades old. At a time when racial issues were roiling campuses across the South, some chapters of Sigma Nu fraternity in the Northeast were considering admitting African-American members, a move that would have sent a powerful statement through the tradition-bound world of sororities and fraternities. At the time, Lott was president of the intra-fraternity council at the University of Mississippi. When the issue came to a head...
...bitter debate over the issue took place at the convention in a New Orleans hotel, as Johnson recalls. Sigma Nu's executive secretary Richard Fletcher, a legendary figure in the fraternity, pleaded with the Sigma Nus to find some common ground between those who wanted to integrate and those who didn't, Johnson says. But the southerners were unbending about permitting no exceptions to the all-white policy. With their chapters threatening a walkout, the fraternity voted overwhelmingly to remain all-white...
...Asked about the fraternity vote, Lott responded through a spokesman, who said: "Those were different times in a different era. Senator Lott believes that segregation is immoral and repudiates it." The spokesman also notes that Sigma Nu integrated in the late 1960s, and that its Ole Miss chapter now accepts African-Americans...
...wasn’t really something I was expecting but I was definitely pleased to receive it,” said new member John S. Chorba ’03, a chemistry major who is one of the directors of Habitat for Humanity and a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity...