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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...University 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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brown Orders Fraternity to Break With Discriminatory National Unit | 11/21/1964 | See Source »

Brown has not been alone in protesting fraternity discrimination. The Stanford chapter of Sigma Nu dropped its national affiliation in 1962, after joining the Brown unit in opposing the discrimination clause. Recently, Columbia, Cornell, Pennsylvania, Trinity, Tufts, and the University of Rhode Island have decided to allow chapters to obtain local waivers of a discrimination clause in a national constitution...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brown Orders Fraternity to Break With Discriminatory National Unit | 11/21/1964 | See Source »

...patterns as possible in a single outfit; the girl who can manage a skillful blend of dots with stripes, checks with tweeds, and plaids with prints, plus patterned stockings, may seem something of an eyesore off campus, but no matter-around the quad she's the sweetheart of Sigma Chi. For night, U.C.L.A. students slip into something appropriate to "the Discothèque Look"-sleeveless jumpers made sometimes of tweed but more often of velours, bare on top and ruffled at the bottom, the most frugable little nothings around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: Back to School | 10/2/1964 | See Source »

...Harvard-Radcliffe Chapter of the Society of the Sigma XI will initiate new members before a dinner at the Faculty Club tonight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sigma Xi Initiates | 5/20/1963 | See Source »

...short-lived that their age was measured in less than a billionth of a second, their very existence inferred from the erratic tracks they left in bubble and cloud chambers. Some left no tracks at all. The list proliferated to the sound of Greek letters-eta, rho, omega, lambda, sigma, xi-until it seemed that the alphabet might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nuclear Physics: Not As a Stranger | 4/26/1963 | See Source »

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