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Originally Posted by Ronaldo9
I'm not a DU but I know it has had significant issues almost since it was founded with frequent internal rebellions. A former colleague who once worked at DU HQ for a couple years told me they supposedly have contingency plans in place specifically to crush chapter rebellions when they occur due to the historic issues they've experienced.
The Delta Upsilon Wikipedia page has an entire section on "secessionist chapters" including an instance when DU's Harvard chapter claimed DU had ceased to exist in 1909 so it was no longer obligated to obey National.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_...onist_chapters
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Actually the information on wikipedia in regards to what happened with Brown University is even more wild.
The turbulence the Greek system experienced in the middle 20th century began for Delta Upsilon in 1956. That year's sitting of the Undergraduate Convention was dissolved by emergency action of DU leadership to "prevent open dissension" in the wake of the election of an African-American as president of the Brown University chapter. The election had been denounced by a number of the fraternity's new southern chapters.[26]
More information (which disagrees a *little* from the Wikipedia article) can be found in the Cornerstone (which serves as the equivalent to a pledge manual for new associate Delta Upsilon members) at
https://issuu.com/deltaupsilon/docs/...orwebsite_2018 pages 42-44. The information in the Cornerstone indicates that the Fraternity has dealt with the issue in its history as well as I can imagine, including having said Brown University chapter president speaking at a later convention and creating a National Award in his name.