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...editorial published in The Crimson last week titled "Life Isn't a Kosher Deli," Jonathan Cohn launched an attack on the recent surge of fraternities at Harvard--and Sigma Alpha Mu, in particular...
Unfortunately, in attacking Sigma Alpha Mu as a Jewish fraternity, Cohn's arguments hinted anti-semitism and unfairly pre-judged the new organization...
...minority dilemna rests in the ability to find a balance between integration and segregation, and contrary to Cohn's generalized stigmatizations, members of Sigma Alpha Mu seem to have an appreciation for this balance...
Founders of fraternities must think carefully about starting organizations over which they do not have final say over all matters of operation, since they are bound by national guidelines. The members of Sigma Alpha Mu ran into this very problem. Although the majority of its members supported coed membership, the organization could not include women for fear of losing its national charter. It is precisely for this reason that the Harvard administration originally did away with recognition of national organizations...
...fact, 25 Harvard men revived Sigma Alpha Mu on this campus because they had not found a better way to fulfill that need, then we, sadly, must at least be partly to blame. Ethan A. Budin '90 Jack S. Levy '92 Co-Chairs, Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel Social Committee