Word: mu
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Last week, 35 Harvard men stopped that evolution dead in its tracks. The revival of a Harvard chapter of Sigma Alpha Mu, a predominantly Jewish national fraternity, is a giant leap backwards for a community that strives towards diversity...
Comparisons to final clubs do not end there. Although Sigma Alpha Mu's local officers say that their group will not base membership on race, religion or soci-economic status, members acknowledge that the group is all male and relatively homogenous...
...existence of any selective social organization at Harvard smacks of elitism and raises serious ethical questions. But the formation of Sigma Alpha Mu is especially troubling--at least to Harvard's Jewish community--because it reflects an unfortunate trend in American Judaism today...
...common anti-Semitic sentiment is that a network of powerfully placed Jews conspires to control the world. At their worst, members of fraternities such as Sigma Alpha Mu seem to wish that such a network existed so they could take advantage...
There is a need for a strong Jewish community. In the post-Holocaust era, Jews realize that their survival may depend on ties to other Jews and to Israel. But organizations such as Sigma Alpha Mu represent more than just an honest attempt at religous and cultural activity such as that which exists at Hillel. Jewish fraternities stand for a self-enclosed world, with a secondary role for non-Jews...