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Thread #103135   Message #2102133
Posted By: Charley Noble
13-Jul-07 - 10:28 PM
Thread Name: Fraternity & Sorority Chants and Songs
Subject: RE: Fraternity & Sorority Chants and Songs
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90% of the undergraduates were expected to join fraternities at my all-men's liberal arts college. Fraternities provided food, housing, and entertainment for the college residents. However, my table at our fraternity decided we didn't want to move into the fraternity, as was expected for our 2nd year. And we walked out, dining at the college union.

I haven't a clue where the song/chant came from other than it was passed on to us by an English major. It was our impression that he learned it word of mouth from another older classmate. I doubt if it were more than 10 years old, and I doubt if anyone on campus now has ever heard it.

There were a couple of more verses that implied some disregard for for the moral purity of young women, not that we had much access to any or more skill at communicating with them if we had encountered one.

The college ten years later finally became coeducational, and after a few initial shakey years became a much healthier place to be educated.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble