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February 1980 Focus february 1980 focus: Deltasigs serving the needs of others! At top, members of Alpha Epsilon Chapter at Minnesota-Minneapoli~ assisted the local PBS station with the annual fund raising drive. Bottom, members of the Chicago Alumni Club donated their services to the Channel 11 fund-raising telethon, also a PBS station. March, 1980 Volume LXIX, No. 3 An Educational Journal USPS 152-940 • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Features Departments commentary . 4 alumni in action . .. .. .... 16 50th Anniversaries-three chapters celebrate 5 Ill • • the chapters speak . ... 21 t IIIII Ill • • • Personal Financial Goals-helpful • • IIIII suggestions to you ... 11 Convention Area Conferences 1979-80 Regional Conferences When in Doubt-accomplishment Fall, 1980 ?II through confidence 14 • • • •• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Editor Cover Ben H. Wolfenberger Wh at looks like fun is reall y lovin g, caring, and giving to Muscular Dysirophy. See th e newsletter from Associate Editor Al pha Beta Chapter, Unive rsity of Michael J . Tillar Mi ssouri-Columbia. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Postmaster: Please send labels Form 3579 to Delta Sigma Pi , 330 South Campus Avenue, Oxford, Ohio 45056. The DELTASIG of Delta Sigma Pi is published fou r times annually in the months of November, January, March, and May. Editorial office- 330 South Campus Avenue, Oxford, Oh io 45056. Subscription price: $10.00 per year. Second Class postage paid at Oxford , Ohio 45056, and at additional mailing offices. Printed in the U.S.A. Member of College Fr aternity Editors Association com entaty .... ALL OF US REMEMBER the 'sixties-that or abets in any kind of hazing activity may be tumultuous, iconoclastic chapter in our nation's histo­ civilly liable for damages, subjected to the expenses ry when recalcitrance and challenges to all forms of defending litigation, and expelled from school. authority appeared to be the norm rather than the ex­ regard to the former ground for Governor Carey's ception. The 'sixties saw the advent of campus riots, that particular piece of legislation may have war protestors, Hippies, Yippies, and demonstrations; unconstitutionally vague. However, we do not "do your own thing" was the philosophy of the day and that problem in Delta Sigma Pi; our Board of D. group participation in anything but sex and sit-ins has adopted a policy against hazing which is clear was absolutely unthinkable. explicit. In short, it simply states that we will not Now, don't get me wrong. A lot of good things did mit nor will we condone hazing, either physical come out of the 'sixties-such as public awareness and mental, in any way, shape, or form. No way, no greater accountability by elected officials. Unfor­ period! (Statement appears on p. 39) tunately, a need for belonging, of persons contributing Let me clarify that. Brothers, we have a great and working together for a common goal, was not ternity, one with a good name and a proud among them. Too many people did their own thing and We are a professional business fraternity and I many worthwhile organizations, including frater­ all of us want to keep it that way. Delta Sigma Pi nities, suffered accordingly. no place for the type of unprofessional conduct w Enter the 'seventies! Confrontation eventually gives hazing exemplifies. To allow a very few · way to conciliation, fashion once more becomes and/or chapters to reflect upon the vast majority fashionable, and people are again genuinely concerned with the world around them. Getting involved is now to say, therefore, that any member or chapter of "in" and campus organizations, particularly frater­ fraternity which violates the policy against nities and sororities, are veritable beehives of activity. adopted by the Board of Directors will be met with Unfortunately concomitant with the rise of frater­ ciplinary action which is both swift and severe. nities during the last few years has been an increase in As we move into the 'eighties, let us remember hazing. Now, hazing is not new and it certainly is not lessons of the 'sixties and 'seventies. Being a part of indigenous to the American fraternity system; its organization, a fraternity, accords us advantages origins antedate all existing fraternities as we know greater than the sum of those w~ have as indivi them and transcend geographic boundaries. Public But it also carries with it responsibilities-for intolerance of hazing, however, is relatively new-and selves, for our Brothers, for future Brothers, and intense. Many government bodies, in addition to col­ the society in which we live. What we make of leges and universities, have felt compelled to take selves, our fraternity, and the world around us­ action to limit the spread of hazing in our fraternal and in the years ahead-is up to each and every one system. Governor Hugh Carey of New York recently us. And remember: in Delta Sigma Pi, you are vetoed a bill by the legislature which would have es­ Brother's keeper. tablished penalties for hazing by students. He based his veto on two grounds: that it could be interpreted as being unconstitutionally vague and because existing laws sufficiently covered the subject. He was probably correct on the latter. State laws which certain forms of hazing may violate include Michael R. Mallonee assault, battery, false imprisonment, kidnapping, Grand President manslaughter, murder, and conspiracy, to name just a Beta Epsilon 709 few. In addition to the foregoing, any person who aids Life Member No. 5569 Their First 50 Years Oklahoma, LSU Florida Oklahoma, Louisiana State, and Florida Have Anniversaries OKLAHOMA IN APRIL OF 1929, a pro­ fessor at Oklahoma University wrote to Brother H. G. Wright, then Grand President of the International Fraternity of Delta Sigma Pi, inquiring about the possibilities of founding a chapter of the fra­ ternity on that campus. Brother Wright, after some in­ vestigation, wrote back that he was not sure that the time was right to attempt beginning a chapter at O.U. It seems that student organizations were not faring well at the university at that time, including one of Delta Sigma Pi's competitor organizations. Notwithstand­ ing these circumstances, on December 4, 1929, Brother Wright installed the chapter, as Beta Epsilon, and the Uni­ versity of Oklahoma chapter became the 50th on the frater- If there was some doubt in the mind of Brother Wright as Their First 50 Years Oklahoma o'clock (early for us) and sever­ members of Beta Epsilon Chap­ al choruses of "High Noon," ter present, septegenarian and until the several weary and the Beta Epsilon charter member many far-traveled guests J. R. Moody quipped "Put me dwindled off for some rest down for the 100th Anniver­ before the events of tomorrow. sary." A small coffee reception in After the introductions, the afternoon at the college of short remarks were given by Business on the O.U. campus Beta Epsilon faculty sponsor began the events of Saturday, Dr. William McGrew, by the December 1, but the main ac­ Dean of the College of Business tivities commenced that eve­ Lawrence McKibbon, and by ning at the Skirvin Plaza Midwestern Regional Director Hotel in downtown Oklahoma Jim Deaton. Beta Epsilon Chapter President City. The undergraduates and Mike Marcotte, left, and Grand The guests were then President Mike Mallonee display alumni from Beta Epsilon addressed by the featured one of the 50th Anniversary Chapter were joined by several speaker, Grand President mementos at Oklahoma. Brothers from Gamma Epsilon Michael R. Mallonee. Brother Chapter at Stillwater, as well Mallonee shared some of the as Brothers from the Tulsa and history of Beta Epsilon Chap­ to the survivability of the Beta Oklahoma City Alumni Club. ter with the guests and made Epsilon Chapter, he should be In addition, a delegation of 10 several challenges to both the happy to know that 50 years members of the Iota Omicron undergraduate and alumni and 1039 members later, in Chapter in Warrensburg, Mis­ members present. He further December of 1979, Beta souri, spent several hours on stated that it was a special Epsilon Chapter celebrated its the road in order to join their honor for him to be serving the Golden Anniversary. Brothers at Beta Epsilon Chap­ fraternity as Grand President Because celebrate we did, ter for this important event. in our 50th Anniversary year. and in grand style, as Beta After a cocktail hour, the After the lianquet and Epsilons from 1929 to the pres­ guests were assembled in the speeches, a pearl and ruby ent returned to visit their banquet hall, and a welcome badge provided as a door prize chapter and their alma mater. extended on behalf of the U ni­ by the Oklahoma City Alumni The celebration, which took versity of Oklahoma by Uni­ Club was awarded by a draw­ place three days early, on a versity President William S. ing. By strange but fitting weekend, due to the actual an­ Banowsky, who lauded the coincidence, the name of the niversary date falling in mid­ chapter on having reached winner, drawn by College of week, began Friday evening, such an auspicious milestone. Business Dean Lawrence Mc­ November 30, with an "Early Following dinner, several Kibbon, was that of charter Bird" party at the clubhouse of special guests were introduced, member J . R. Moody. the apartments where Grand including four of Beta The final event of the eve­ President Michael R. Mallonee Epsilon's charter members, ning was a dance with live resides. As fortune would have Albert Braun, Burton Towne, music provided by a local band. it, the 50th Anniversary of our Ted Greenshields and J. R. During the band's break, about chapter just happens to fall in Moody. At one point when Beta a dozen Brothers composed of a year when the fraternity has Epsilon President Mike Mar­ members from' each of the a Beta Epsilon as Grand Presi­ cotte expressed his pleasure in chapters and alumni clubs and dent.
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