THE BATTALION
5
Columbia University
Fraternities At War
NEW YORK.—An Associated Press
reporter is authority for the fact that
Columbia university has a frat war
on its hands. And Mr. Grundy is said
to have done it.
Says the reporter:
“Mr. Grundy, former senator of
Pennsylvania, told western senators
from states not so thickly populated
they ‘ought to talk darn small.’
The idea got to Columbia and the
daily studnet paper translated it into
college language for the edification of
fraternities whose equipment consist
ed of a name, by-laws, and maybe a
couple of chairs in a dormitory.
Until then the oldest and strongest
fraternities were more or less content
with the interfraternity council which
enforced an agreement to regulate
rushing and other such campus busi
ness. Not unlike the western sena
tors, the smaller fraternities talked as
they pleased—and the war began.
Fifteen of the largest societies with
drew from the council and drew up a
new agreement which provides, among
other things, that weaker fraternities
can talk only as much as their size and
stability are worth.
For further complication Beta Theta
Pi washed its hands of the whole af
fair and announced independence of
any and all groups. Thirteen frater
nities remain in the council.
Actual hostility is not looked for
until the next rushing season when,
under the present arrangement, ‘rush
ing’ will turn into ‘sandbagging.’
‘Sandbagging,’ students explained,
is a process whereby upper classmen,
spotting an eligible freshman, attempt
to get him into their fraternity ‘by fair
means or foul.’
It is a process not conducive to peace
of mind on the part of the unsophis
ticated frosh.
The old agreement was made in
1925.”
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