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Brown University's Phi Delta Theta fraternity chapter has been ordered by the Brown Corporation to sever its affiliation with its national parent organization because of a discriminatory clause in the national constitution...
Before the Corporation ruling last week, Phi Delta Theta had hoped to compromise with the Corporation by obtaining a local waiver of the objectionable clause...
...Committee on Discrimination in Fraternities ordered in 1962 that local fraternities either eliminate the discriminatory clause from their national charters within a "reasonable time" or withdraw from the national organizations. The Brown chapter of Sigma Nu, whose national charter contains discriminatory provisions, became independent voluntarily last week. Phi Delta Theta will follow suit in December...
...Hollywood. In a town that makes a business of manufacturing dubious glamour, they have made a virtue of pink-scrubbed cheeks and moral beauty. They have also packaged their wholesome views into a weekly column that is carried by 270 papers in the U.S. and abroad. Last week Theta Sigma Phi, an honorary women's journalism society, named the sisters winners of its 1962 award for women who have achieved the most in journalism...
...expansive as anyone under the big sky, Vice President Lyndon Johnson forever tells people, "Come and see us, heah?" No less a Texan, Lady Bird Johnson, 49, wound up a talk to lady journalists at a Theta Sigma Phi convention in San Antonio by asking them all over for breakfast. When 50 accepted. Lady Bird, a Theta Sig since her days as a University of Texas journalism student in 1933 chartered a bus for the 78-mile drive to the L.B.J. ranch, laid on a brunch of deer sausages, grits, and homemade peach preserves, sent the newshens away clucking...