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my founders weren't racist. They would be happy we have non-White and non-Episcapalion members. They set out to be a national fraternity and have members of lots of groups be brothers. Look at the names. Lorenzo Potter. Lorenzo is an Italian name. How many Italians were even in college in 1856? No racism in my org. So ha.
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Optimist Prime, you should know that the Theta Chi constitution restricted membership only to caucasians until sometime in the 1950s. That's how you lost your Dartmouth chapter.
Theta Chi is a fine group with a lot to be proud of. But we should all be aware of the skeletons in our closets when it comes to this issue (No, not that skeleton - I'm speaking figuratively here!
). Delta Chi, Sigma Chi, Phi Sigma Kappa and many other NIC groups restricted membership only to white males well into the 1950s and 1960s, and they lost good chapters over it too.
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