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University Daily Kansan, November 19, 1981
Fraternity
From page one
'I felt that I was getting more slit than the other piece of clothing I was black,' he said. 'I was racial.'
Some Phi Delta yelled yelial slurs at a former Phi Kappa Sura social sledge. Patrick said.
Before McGlothen pledged the house, he was warned that there might be some problems with the roof.
it 'wasn't because of our house that I warned him,' Pam said, because was because of our burial. Blancaitta thea
Brian Sampson, Wichita junior, was that social pledge. Sampson, now a member of the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity, said that there were several groups of students associated herself from the Phi Kappa Sigma house.
"One reason was because of the racial run-ins with the Phil Debtors," he said. "They would fail."
SAMPSON'S NEW HOUSE is the only traditionally white fraternity that has successfully incorporated blacks into its KU chapter. This year there are four blacks living in
Blacks have been members of the TKE house since the early 1970s, said Jim Seidel, TKE director.
"We've had top-top individuals who have gotten along great in our house," Seidel, Great Bend senior, said. "Because of that, I guess, we have made new black members. It's self-perpetuating."
The TKEs were one reason why the Alpha Gamma Delta sorority did not want to take a black in 1979, said a former member, who asked not to be identified.
The AGD said that some members had been afraid their reputation would be lowered as they were not invited to a conference.
"We've had a bad reputation with other fraternities since I came here in 1978," Seidel said. "It doesn't worry the guys, and if somebody's going to think we're a bad house because we have blacks, that person isn't worthy of being in this part of the world."
Otto Moore, a black who has been a TKE officer, expressed similar sentiments.
"We've heard the rumors of how the TKEs are a bad house because we have blacks," said Moore, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, senior. "If having that reputation, it's only hurting it with hirshts."
Besides having black members, the TKES also have black little sisters. They were the first
fraternity to team up with a black sorority to try out for the Rock Chalk Revue.
Seidel said that a relatively new fraternity probably made it easier for his house to have room.
"We were established in the 1940s, so we're pretty new," he said.
"we don't have the older type alums who wouldn't umbrest us if we had blacks."
THE TKE$ DON'T have a strong alumni group, he said.
"Even if the alums tried to dictate to us about it, they wouldn't have the strength to exert a lot of force."
However, alumni groups of other houses have prevented many fraternities from taking black members, said a former IFC officer who asked not to be identified.
"I know of many houses that wanted to take a back, but their alums wouldn't let them," he said. "They would."
Because fraternity rush is different from sorority rush, not every house has dealt with pledging a black. Fraternities rely mostly on alumni and member recruitment rather than on the college campus, but a house must consider, at least superficially, each person interested in joining a Greek house.
McGlotten said he had expected certain houses not to take him because of his race.
"I could never have gotten into the Fijia (Ji-
Gamma Delta) because they're really par-
itioned."
FLIJ HEU president Nick Wooster agreed that the Flijs were particular.
"Of course I'd say my house is very good," said Wooster, Salina senior. "However, there are no rules or regulations that would prevent us from traveling to the area we've never been confronted with the situation."
The Fijis bolster their ranks mainly through their own recruitment, Wooster said. However, they do get a list of names of men interested in joining a fraternity from the IFC.
"We will look at those guys," he said. "We don't only pick people we want."
However, all members must meet certain requirements beqid.
Wooster also said that he could not understand why a black would want to be a Filii.
"Why do they want to be members of a group where everyone else is white and it has always been that way?" Wooster said. "If you were a black, would you be happy? Would you fit in?"
However, some fraternity members said they thought race was not a determining factor in whether someone would be comfortable in a fraternity.
"At my house, color does not matter." TKE member David Bentley. Topeka freshman, said.
A former member of the Triangle fraternity was chosen to know the fraternity members, he was treated very well.
"Friends are friends no matter what color," he said.
"You (a black) have to prove yourself to earn the guys' respect," said the former member, Vince King, Brooklyn, N.Y., graduate student. "What you have in fraternities are individuals
dealing with individuals. You can be somebody's brother in a fraternity, but you can't expect to be someone else's brother.
Two fraternities, the Delta Upsions and the Phi Delta Theas, with reputations as "jack" houses, have several social pledges who are KU athletes.
While most men are full-fledged members, many fraternities also allow social pledges. Social pledges don't have voting privileges, but they attend at all fraternity functions and pay monthly dues.
However, KU's prominent black athletes are absent. Although many black athletes bring recognition to KU, they aren't welcome in KU's fraternities. Many black athletes said.
Todd Slawan, president of the DU house, said the Rangers had several social pledges who were afraints.
"In football we have Steve Smith, Jeff Snead,
'Slawson said. "Blacks? We have no blacks.'
Tony Guy, KU basketball player, is a social pledge to the TKF house.
THE PHI DELTS also have no black athletes
no social media, said Tom Hall president.
Guy said he did not know any other black men and had no allies or pledges to other predominantly white fraternities.
"Some guys on the team are DUG and all that, but I don't know any black guys who are," he
Guy said he believed athletic athletes were not asked to be social pledges because of their race.
A black football player, who did not want to be identified, said that he would be surprised if a
NEVERTHLEES, Kermin Bell, a black KU football player, considered joining the Sigma Chi fraternity as a social pledge last year. Because of an old Sigma Chi rule that required all members to live in the house, it never materialized, said John Best, rush chairman.
However, this year the rule was changed and the Sigma Chis now have two white football players who are social pledges living out of the house.
black athlete would seriously be invited to pledge a white fraternity, other than the TKE house.
Best said there were no objections from members to having Bell as a member.
"I talked to the chapter advisor about blacks in general," said Bess, a senior whose Chicago high school was racially minoritized.
"I wanted to know how he would feel about it because I had some friends from high school who were considering coming to KU," Best said. "He thought it would be okay."
Best said he also realized that his background was different from most of the members of his group.
"I realize that Kansas is more conservative, in five years there will be blacks in KITFriedman."
However, many people interviewed were not as optimistic.
"Basically, except for a few houses, the Greek system is closed to blacks," Moore, a TKE, said. "Maybe if the more prestigious houses would be open, I wouldn't. But I don't see that happening in the near future."
Any house that joins the ranks of houses that have already taken blacks will probably have to endure some ridicule, according to several fraternity members.
"Of course we would be ridiculed if we took a book because of the way society is." Wooster sand.
A FORMER LAW school professional fraternity member, Marvin Motley, also said that society was to blame for the de facto segregated Greek system.
"I think the Greek system is a microcosm of the Moorish Malice, a 1980 KU law school gdphad law."
Motley, who is black, said that as a KU undergraduate he had not considered being in a traditionally white fraternity an option that was open to him.
While the law school group is called a fraternity, it is not a residential one. The extent of its "Greek" activities is parties with Panhellenic sororities.
"I was treated pretty well most of the time." Motley said about the parties. "I think some of that, though, is because I had been an RA at Naismith and had gotten to know a lot of people there who later joined sororities, and who I saw and talked to at parties."
Motley also said that the narrowness of the Greek system was unfortunate in many waves.
"When you're in college you're supposed to expand your mind and your experiences," he said. "But many people come to college and just perpetuate their parent's beliefs."
That attitude, however, leaves work undone,
he said.
"You have to break down the racial barriers that are in existence," Motley said. "One of the problems with those barriers is that people are burdened as individuals, they're judged by their race."
Pan Hellenic
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organizations differed from their white counterparts.
"It's not really a social organization. It's a communal network that supports the lives of her sorcerer, Sigma Gamma Rho.
MFALL SAID THAT the sorority conducted clothing and food drives at holidays and raised money for the United Negro College Fund and the audio reader program for the blind.
Belinda West of Delta Sigma Theta sorority said that her group also engaged primarily in community service.
"Our sorority is a public service organization that is always solely for the purpose of community service."
West, Wichita senior, said that the sorcery
group is raising funds for their community
service project.
"When I think of a lot of sororities on campus that are white, I think of a lot of people going out there."
The black students said that they did not get the same impression of community service from the white students.
There are other differences between the two systems, the black students said.
FOR EXAMPLE, only one of the eight black fraternities and sororites has a house.
Some of the blacks said that the lack of a house was not important.
'there're a lot of misconceptions that you can't really be (sorority) sisters without living in the same house," McFall said. "A lot of people put a lot of emphasis on that."
But West said that at Delta Sigma Theta, at least the lack of a common dwellings was not a problem.
"I tell them, 'No, we don't have a house,'"
West said. "I tell them we have a home."
But Coleman said that not having a house, plus the rising costs of renting rooms in the Kansas Union for parties, was putting the squeeze on his fraternity and the other black Greek
AND COLEMAN SAID that the University was done little to help Black Pan Hellenic.
"To me, they act like they want to help, but they're not helping," he said.
Oleman said that many blacks felt the
southern man want black fraternities or
sororites at KU.
"That is the feeling that I have," he said. "But we are going to exit. It's not going to make any difference."
"They wait until a problem exists. What has the University done?"
And although relations between the black and white Greeks do not seem to be hostile, neither does the African population.
"My fraternity has no plans to join the IFC (Interfraternity Council)." Coleman said.
Art Farmer, faculty advisor for IFC, said that the council was altering its rules to encourage black membership, and he predicted that, by February, the black fraternities would all be in
Two of the four black fraternities and one of the four black sororites are already associate
But Coleman said that he had no desire to become a part of IFC.
"I'm very proud to be black," he said. "They haven't done anything that impresses me."
"I don't think most of those houses will ever integrate. I don't think there should be an all-out effort."
And Coleman, like Thompson and the other
said he preferred a separate system for
blacks.
"I had no type of thinking or thought—ever to pledge a white fraternity," he said.
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