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I can tell you that the "Delaware Plan" and its derivatives have spread to other campuses. The Plan itself was found to be legally unenforcable (this was denied on another thread, and I don't have access right now to the papers I need to prove it). Just because it's legally unenforcable doesn't mean the school doesn't use it; undergrads can be intimidated into anything.
At my campus, administrators attempted to install the thing - their document was called something else but included entire sections ver batim from the Plan. There was a quiet dinner meeting between administrators and lawyers representing several fraternities, including a local judge who said that he would consider it a civil rights case if it came into his court, and the thing was dropped immediately. Please don't take any of this as suggesting that our administrators are anti-Greek. They're not. The basics of the Delaware Plan include layers and layers of sorority-esque rules and regulations with rewards and penalties for each area based on a point system. It's the sort of thing that sororities love and fraternities hate. It was aimed at making fraternities more like sororities. The objection voiced by the attorneys included freedom of association and the fact that other campus groups were not affected. Also, there was this from one lawyer: "All these things may be noble, but each fraternity has the right to be lazy if they want to be. No one should be penalized for electing not to do community service."
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