Word: sigma
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While drowsing through an afternoon class in Elementary Logic or Advanced Trig, many a U.S. college student has wondered why his classes can't be as much fun, or as relevant, as the nightly bull sessions in the Sigma Chi dorm. No note taking, no grades, no assigned readings, the beer flows and so does student eloquence...
...former colleague. Speaking with the experience of 35 years as a reporter, Presidential Press Secretary Bill Moyers' new assistant, Robert H. Fleming, denounced the sloppy performances turned in by so many of the men he now has to deal with. In a speech to the Washington chapter of Sigma Delta Chi, Fleming got his collected gripes off his chest...
Back to the Classics. Italians also pointed the way in safety, with two experimental cars: the PF Sigma, designed by the late Sergio Pininfarina, and the Secura, designed by the research branch of Quattroruote, the Italian auto magazine. Both cars have sliding doors that cannot spring open on impact, collapsible steering columns, heavily padded interiors, pop-out front and rear windows, and a body that sandwiches an extra-strong passenger compartment to absorb collision forces...
Decisions on Sigma Chi. College administrations are also losing patience with fraternities that still refuse, after some 15 years of pressure, to broaden their membership selection. National officers of Sigma Chi were to decide this week whether to kick out its Stanford chapter, which was suspended last year after announcing that it intended to pledge a Negro. The trustees of Brown University ordered the Brown Sigma Chi chapter to disaffiliate on grounds that the national organization was discriminatory. Sigma Chi has filed a federal suit to force the University of Colorado to end the probation of its Boulder chapter. Officials...
...Keppel, he will spend full time on a second job created for him last September: Assistant Secretary of HEW. As commissioner, he had attempted to withhold some $30 million worth of federal aid to Chicago schools because of racial segregation, and had brashly told the Sigma Chi fraternity that unless it integrated, the colleges where it has chapters would lose federal aid. He will now give primary attention to the problem of trying to coordinate the conflicting, overlapping educational activities of 43 federal agencies...