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Originally posted by squashfly3
i saw this in my local paper the past weekend. it is too bad that the greek system at rutgers is getting a bad name. i hope that somehow this is able to be cleared up. but i have a question that is sort of off topic....what exactly is SQUAM? are they a local fraternity? or are they just a social organization with a house? i don't really understand.
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Originally posted by gypsiilee
Ok that is hard to explain. A long time ago ( ok i htink just hte 70s) i think chi phi had was suspended or something a local, i believe called Squam got their house. Both Chi Phi bros and squam bros got along really well so when the chi phis got their house back they initiated teh squams adn maybe vice versa. I believe later the alumni bought the house and so it was decided if they were ever banned again they would simply turn into squam again until they could recharter but this time i dont think tehy are allowed to charter again so they will prob stay squam. I think i got this right in dojnt know how to word it all. Rissa might k now more.
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Originally posted by squashfly3
so does Squam stand for something then? or is just a random name?
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The local fraternity at Rutgers Univ. is called Squam, another name for the intramural sports they are actively involved with, like lacrosse. They claim to be the Rutgers Squamish Team, it's been a traditional lacrosse house on campus I suppose. I don't know if that's exactly right, but that's the story I keep getting. They weren't advertising this sort of thing back when I was there. In any event. Before the recent change to Squam, they were the Chi Phi fraternity at Rutgers. After losing recognition because of an incident in which a freshman pledge committed suicide jumping off the roof of his dorm back in 2000, they went local and called themselves Rho Sigma Tau (letters formed PET on the house) Rho Sigma Tau were the initials for Rutgers Squamish Team.
In their defense, since I do not know what became of that plege incident, they were only allegations and I don't think charges were brought against the house. I do not know if the house is really a lacrosse house still, but the Squam name has its tradition and reputation among the group.
AXPalum
P.S. For your entertainment purposes, this is a mad magazine article from 1965 depicting a satire of a game called
43 Man Squamish. Does it have any connection or relevancy to this? Probably not, but it is funny
