[Erik P Conard]

after having poured over this "Asian" bit...I guess you all now relaize that we have come a long ways...sure, in the 50s and before, many people were exculded because they were not "white, Christian, male." Most of the sororities were guilty of
this. No more. And I don't think TKE, Beta, DU, AKL, or Acacia ever had any exclusionary clauses, race-wise...we are proud of that, and rushes in the '50s were embarrassing to some houses
who had to ask rushees if they were "white christians."
TKE had a plethora of Asians in chapters in the 50s and while I am a Kansan, and few Asians there, we always had a few foreign students, including asians...good ping pong players, too! LOL
There are so many asians and other so-called minorities in our
GLOs today that it is not even worth discussing. The emergence
of these groups, especially on the west cost, has brought us
diviseness again...that is too bad.
But most of us can pledge who we want, where we want and when we want. Yep, we have come a long way.
Finally, in TKE early days, in Alpha Chapter, about 1915 or so, we
had Asayo Fukuda...an esteemed Japanese, in our chapter. He went back to Japan and became an Admiral during World War II,
and unfortunately lost his life during the conflict. Many TKEs wept
over that, and an old, old Teke told me this in 1957.
While we have not yet put urinals in the Ole Miss sorority houses,
we still have a bit broader perspective than we used to!
And we are better for it! Erik P Conard, old Teke