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Practical Hazing. Hell Week had been banned on some campuses-notably at Indiana University, after nine Theta Chis were jailed for breaking into a grocery store on a Hell Week scavenger hunt. At Tufts College in Medford, Mass., which first abolished and then restored Hell Week, "practical hazing" (e.g., cleaning and polishing the houses) had replaced such schoolboyish stunts as measuring the Charles River bridges with 13-inch codfish. Everywhere paddling (also known as "boarding," "hacking," etc.) was about as out-of-date as bell-bottom trousers...
...make it a little rougher on these certain women who are selfish enough to hide their better features, the guys in Theta Chi Fraternity at M.I.T. have vowed not to date (or even whistle at) any women wearing "their grandma's dresses...
Since 1870 many a U.S. campus has been afflicted with the approximate equivalent of a combined Ku Klux Klan and Tammany Hall. Its name: Theta Nu Epsilon. No innocent social fraternity. T.N.E. is an outlaw* interfraternity society whose anonymous and generally hard-drinking members often work in secret to control student governments, campus newspapers, fraternity memberships and prom lists, in flagrant defiance of faculty edicts...
...still-painful leg injury and honorable discharge after two years in the European Theater. Quentin F. Soik, 22, of Milwaukee, veteran staff sergeant of the Army Air Forces, enrolled at the University of Wisconsin as a pre-law student last summer. He was pledged to Theta Chi fraternity...
Last week Dean Goodnight announced that he had written to Theta Chi's National President Frederick W. Ladue, demanding that the Wisconsin chapter's charter be revoked...