Word: lambda
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Stanford University's Lambda Nu fraternity house, complains Junior Dan Stone, 20, "our most cohesive social function is watching Walter Cronkite." Next fall the fraternity's social life should get a big lift. With the University's consent, the 30 brothers living at Lambda Nu will welcome 20 coeds as "associates" who will sleep and eat in the fraternity, participate in its activities and, predicts one brother, monopolize the house's lone telephone...
...Lambda Nu's men and women will share the dining room, living room and other facilities of the fraternity's handsome house overlooking Lake Lagunita. The coeds' sleeping quarters will occupy a wing conveniently separated from the rest of the house by a fire door and by corridors leading to the common rooms. There will be no housemother, though a male university administrator, who now lives in the house as a "resident assistant," will continue to oversee its activities...
...admission of women to Lambda Nu comes at a time when several Stanford dormitories are also converting to coed living. In allowing Lambda Nu to become the campus' first coed fraternity, Stanford stipulated that the women must be selected by random draw among those who sign up rather than by any selective "rush." After the first year, Lambda Nu has promised to select its men by draw as well...
Abandoning the rush would make Lambda Nu little different from a dormitory, but its members seem not to mind. Lambda Nu President Fred Fudacz, 20, sees coed living as an escape from the "separation of the sexes that perpetuates artificial male-female relationships." One likely result of daily contact is that students will be less inclined to idealize the opposite sex. After living with the men for a while, Lambda Nu's future coeds may start thinking of them as brothers...
Shanker made his witty and occasionally fired-up speech to a WGBH television conference on collective bargaining between teachers and school administrations. The meeting was sponsored by the Harvard Chapter of Pi Lambda Theta and the Harvard Graduate School of Education...