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Originally posted by wptw
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.
wptw
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We allowed other races but not blacks in until I *think* til around '62 or so. Not something that's exactly 'in the closet'. To judge the past by today's standards is unfair. I think we've come a long way and for the better but that's why we change. Diversity has made us better.