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University Daily Kansan
Thursday. May 2. 1963
Fraternity Man Active In College Life-
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the organizations have made admirable progress. Dean Alderson pointed out many systems have their faults but "if a new student is asked to give more than six or seven hours a week" to extra-curricular, it is unfortunate.
He pointed out that Delta Upsilon here was cited nationally for having the best pledge program in their national set-up.
The records are calculated from weekly meetings of which a report is sent to the respective headquarters sites.
ONE PLEDGE TRAINER here on the campus seeks to teach the pledges "first a responsibility to themselves and second to the house." He said his pledge class does not have a list of written rules. Rather, he said, the rules are explained orally.
During the first semester, at this particular fraternity, pledges are required to study up to eight hours a day. During the second semester, depending upon his grades, he may be allowed to study three to eight hours a day.
AN EFFORT IS MADE to room a pledge with an active having the same major subject, as part of the tutoring program. He said the pledges are required to know the majors of all the actives so that he will know to whom to go for specific information.
Room assignments are made four times a year at this house. It is believed the pledge will learn more if he is moved within the house.
Fledges are required to go to all A team intramural functions and the major house parties.
The emphasis is to keep the man from experiencing "sophomore slump." It is believed the man
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AT ANOTHER HOUSE it is said "scholarship is stressed more than any other single factor." Pledges are only required to attend three parties a year.
"No demands are made on his time." Only fifteen minutes each day are spent in a pledge meeting and one hour on Mondays.
Pledges are highly encouraged to ask questions of the older men in the house. Study hours are anytime except 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The study hours may be spent at the library on the campus.
The ritual of the fraternity is also often highly criticized.
WILLIAM ANDERSON, Park Ridge, Ill., junior and president of the IFC feels "the ritual is the one element that ties men into the fraternity.
"It keeps the fraternity from being just a living group."
KU fraternities enjoyed dominance of housing on campus until 1959 when the large dormitories began to open. It was said then a drop in pledges was due to "fraternity tomoolery."
HOWEVER, IN 1957 a Washington municipal court judge had charged "the greatest asset of any fraternity is in its ritual through whose jealously guarded secrets . . . are taught the principles and ideals which serve to improve the moral character and department of its members."
A Holiday magazine article of October, 1958 concluded that "all rituals are pretty much alike. But fraternities do fill some sort of gap in college life."
No organization representing 1,500 men can be simply written off as unimportant. Probably no list can ever be compiled to list all fraternity alumni.
The following list does not imply that only fraternity men are great leaders. But here are a few men that are alumni of various traternities not necessarily local:
Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Thurgood Marshall, Al Capp, Lowell Thomas, Edward R. Murrow, Drew Pearson, Harry Sinclair, Woodrow Wilson, Dick Powell, James Naismith and Supreme Court justices Clark and Brennan.
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ANDERSON DESCRIBED the pledge program as existing to create an atmosphere where highest academic levels can be reached.
He said it is detrimental for fraternities to have inter-fraternity competition. Anderson feels there needs to be more inter-fraternity parties.
He pointed out a couple have been held successfully this year. He said he will propose a committee to encourage more inter-fraternity cooperation.
He feels the fraternity system here is above average. Anderson said he feels the 1FC needs strengthening as a whole.
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