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Well, I did some reading into that Duquesne history book. I found out that the Sheiks and the Playboys were around back in the 1960s.. and yes, they were a social club like Red Rover said.
Zeta Beta Tau is predominantly a jewish fraternity. They admitted members of other races and religions; two friends of mine are Puerto Ricans and they were admitted. Around 1994-1995, I saw members of Zeta Beta Tau sporting the Greek letters for Sigma Alpha Epsilon. I realized they changed, but I didn't think that could be done. I found out that they were having problems with the national headquarters due to a dwindling number of new jewish members in the fraternity; this is hard because Duquesne is mostly a Catholic university. anyways.. by that time, they had become one of the most despised fraternities around campus due to a series of incidents regarding one of their members. Such Zebe wanted to be president of the sga. there were elections and the zebea won.. ...apparently there were a number of votes not counted, so there were requests by the other candidates to do a recount or re-election... the night of the decision (I was there with my friend Kappa Sigma Phi Phil Cordier) the zebes burst into the room with baseball bats, hockey sticks, etc. Still, it was decided that a re-election would be made... the zebe lost and the other candidate won (I guess many people found out about the incident and just changed their minds). After this, around May, there was an incident that I called the 4th Floor Towers Kickass party. Classes were over, finals were done... people were celebrating the end of the year. The incident started in Loafer's (Molly's, whatever... next door to what used to be Corleone's). I wasn't there, so I guess there were arguments amongst the other fraternities and the Zebes. I was getting all my stuff ready for packing and going out later that night. I left Towers and when I came back to the lobby, I saw many Greeks going into the elevators and stopping at the 4th Floor (Zeta Beta Tau Wing)... I even noticed one frat guy saying to his brother: "hey, look. everybody's stopping at the 4th floor.". The next day, as I'm moving stuff out of campus, I noticed many zebes leaving... sporting broken arms, black eyes, bruises, etc. So my conclusion was that the other fraternities just burst in and started fighting them. So why the change? hard to know.. it could be problems with national headquarters or they decided to clean up their image after all the problems.
So that's my interpretation of what happened to Zeta Beta Tau in Duquesne.
later,
perdido88
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