More minorities join Alabama sororities

[naraht]

I'd like to know, does my alma mater qualify as "North" or "South"?


* The football team went undefeated my senior year, less than a quarter of the campus knew according to a survey from the school newspaper
* My freshman year for one game, they gave away floppy diskettes to each person attending the football game.
* The football team didn't play on campus at all for my Junior year because they were rebuilding the stadium as part of moving the stadiums and fields around for space for a new Dorm.

[CMDelta]

I thought I would post today's article from hottytoddy.com both here and on the Ole Miss greekchat page since it's been discussed in both places:
http://hottytoddy.com/2013/10/30/gre...lack-or-white/

[Titchou]

Originally Posted by naraht

I'd like to know, does my alma mater qualify as "North" or "South"?


* The football team went undefeated my senior year, less than a quarter of the campus knew according to a survey from the school newspaper
* My freshman year for one game, they gave away floppy diskettes to each person attending the football game.
* The football team didn't play on campus at all for my Junior year because they were rebuilding the stadium as part of moving the stadiums and fields around for space for a new Dorm.

I think it may be in a 3rd category all by itself...

[clemsongirl]

Originally Posted by naraht

I'd like to know, does my alma mater qualify as "North" or "South"?


* The football team went undefeated my senior year, less than a quarter of the campus knew according to a survey from the school newspaper
* My freshman year for one game, they gave away floppy diskettes to each person attending the football game.
* The football team didn't play on campus at all for my Junior year because they were rebuilding the stadium as part of moving the stadiums and fields around for space for a new Dorm.

I think your alma mater qualifies as "confused". I like the idea of floppy diskettes as a handout, though. What was on them?

[DGTess]

Originally Posted by naraht

I'd like to know, does my alma mater qualify as "North" or "South"?


* The football team went undefeated my senior year, less than a quarter of the campus knew according to a survey from the school newspaper
* My freshman year for one game, they gave away floppy diskettes to each person attending the football game.
* The football team didn't play on campus at all for my Junior year because they were rebuilding the stadium as part of moving the stadiums and fields around for space for a new Dorm.

CMU????

I know there was one year, probably in the early-to-mid eighties the CMU team went undefeated AND had a 4.0 GPA.

[naraht]

Originally Posted by Titchou

I think it may be in a 3rd category all by itself...

Probably. Collegiate Athletics wasn't exactly a strong drawing point for the school. (except for some reason, Women's long distance running)

Originally Posted by clemsongirl

I think your alma mater qualifies as "confused". I like the idea of floppy diskettes as a handout, though. What was on them?

More like *really* geeky.
Absolutely nothing. They were blank.

Originally Posted by DGTess

CMU????

I know there was one year, probably in the early-to-mid eighties the CMU team went undefeated AND had a 4.0 GPA.

Yes, Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh.

I know there were other seasons we went undefeated. 4.0 GPA for the entire team would have been very surprising, that's 50 or more men.

The really bizarre thing is that the school used to be (back in the 1920s!) very good nationally in Football. We played and beat Notre Dame back in the late 1920s. (Under the old name Carnegie Instititute of Technology)

[badgeguy]

I was reading a 1907 edition of the Handbook of Beta Theta Pi, which is on Google Books, today and came across something very interesting dealing with Alumni members, and since this thread seems to have been an offshoot from the original thread about the issues at Alabama and the Alumni, I thought I'd post it here (if this should be started as a new thread, please let me know):

According to the old Handbook (which was really a History of Beta Theta Pi written by William Baird (author of the Bairds Manuals)) he was writing about the convention of 1870 that an amendment was made to the constitution that -- "An alumni chapter may, by a unanimous vote, recommend a person for membership in the nearest chapter located at a college and upon such recommendation, such college chapter may elect and initiate such person as a member of such college chapter in the manner provided elsewhere."

Baird states that there is no evidence that this privilege was ever exercised, but it does seem interesting that back in the 1800s, alumni involvement with the chapters seems to have been highly involved, like it is today, and as was pointed out before that there should be some things that alumni should not be allowed to do........

Anyway, I thought it was interesting. Are there any other organizations who may have had such a rule on their books now or in the past? Even if it was never "used".

BG

[Titchou]

Interesting that it doesn't state whether this person need be enrolled in school. Since it doesn't, I wonder if this was a precursor of the Alumni Initiate program?

[KillarneyRose]

Originally Posted by naraht

The football team went undefeated my senior year, less than a quarter of the campus knew according to a survey from the school newspaper

This is embarrassing to admit, but I went to college right next door to you and I had no idea CMU even had a football team.

[KillarneyRose]

Originally Posted by 33girl

For the purposes of football, Pennsylvania is not in the North as defined by TSteven's post. Neither is Ohio. This starts in junior high and never stops.

Especially SW Pennsylvania. Football is serious business there. I'd put it up against the legendary Texas football hysteria any day.

[naraht]

Originally Posted by KillarneyRose

This is embarrassing to admit, but I went to college right next door to you and I had no idea CMU even had a football team.

http://www.pittsburghquarterly.com/i...e-tartans.html

And we even beat Pitt a decent number of times prior to WWII. Carnegie Tech went to quite a few bowl games. Now what was *left* after President Doherty de-emphasized it is another story.

[DGTess]

Originally Posted by naraht

I know there were other seasons we went undefeated. 4.0 GPA for the entire team would have been very surprising, that's 50 or more men.

The only reason I remember it is that I was living in Denver, and read a small blurb in one of the Denver papers that mentioned it. One of those "can you even imagine ..."-type paragraphs used as filler. Not that I could have told you where the football stadium was (hyperbole; it was next to Tech House).

[DrPhil]

Mas importante:

Sorority Alums Claim Chapter Misrepresented

Letter to the Editor: Integration will help UA Sororities

[Cheerio]

Originally Posted by KillarneyRose

This is embarrassing to admit, but I went to college right next door to you and I had no idea CMU even had a football team.

Still hijacking thread here: Perhaps equally embarrassing to admit, our family visits college football stadiums on vacations/car trips and we have photos of us at CMU's football/track stadium during a Pittsburgh family reunion.

Sort of back on thread track: We have no relatives living in Alabama or I'm sure we'd have seen Bryant-Denny Stadium in person (AND adored their Greek Row nearby!).

[exlurker]

Update

http://cw.ua.edu/2013/11/13/ua-emplo...t-allegations/

“University of Alabama System employee Emily Jamison has retired from her position as director for University, president’s and chancellor’s events.

“Emily retired from UA last month for personal reasons,” said Chris Bryant, assistant director of media relations and director of research communications, Thursday, Nov. 7.

In an article published by The Crimson White Sept. 11 titled “The Final Barrier,” Jamison, who served as a recruitment advisor for the UA chapter of Chi Omega, was named by an active member of the sorority as one of the reasons the sorority dropped a black potential new member during formal recruitment.
. . . “