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Countermeasures. Rushing to the blacks' support, white members of Students for a Democratic Society set up a picket line outside the building. University officials tried to negotiate with the blacks, but were firmly turned away. Determined to recapture "The Straight," 20 whites, most of them from Delta Upsilon fraternity, whose membership is entirely Caucasian, smashed through a window and scuffled with the blacks. They were beaten back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Agony of Cornell | 5/2/1969 | See Source »

...alumnus and faculty adviser of Delta Upsilon, I would rather have a black or yellow gentleman for a fraternity brother than a white jerk; and I do have brothers from all three races. But when any outsider tries to force my own or any other fraternity [June 25] to change its constitution or take in anyone whom it does not want, then he has me to fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 2, 1965 | 7/2/1965 | See Source »

...that way at Stanford. Hullabaloo was coming on, and a hush spread momentarily over the jampacked tub room in the Delta Upsilon house Then the rock-'n'-roll show started blasting out the top pop tunes while the TV screen filled up with frenzied Hullabalooers twisting and shouting. ' There she is," shouted a D.U., spotting a favorite blonde dancer. "Go, beast, go! Most of the comments were in the same vein: sexual fascinations mingled with snobbish derision. For students never watch in silence; half the fun is Jetting go: "Get her name-she's terrible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Habit | 3/26/1965 | See Source »

Rockefeller graduated from Lincoln with deficiencies in arithmetic and spelling, but with an urge to learn more about people. He decided Princeton, Yale and Harvard were undemocratic, bypassed them to attend smaller Dartmouth. At Hanover he directed a stirring attack on the fraternity system but eventually joined Psi Upsilon, wielded a fire hose and earned a black eye during a battle between his sophomore class and freshmen, ran and lost for president of the junior class. In the Rockefeller tradition he also taught Sunday school, abstained from smoking and the traditional applejack parties in White River Junction and made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: The Rocky Roll | 10/6/1958 | See Source »

...Upsilon Fraternity has shamed its university and disgraced its country before the whole world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 10, 1956 | 12/10/1956 | See Source »

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