ALABAMA DELTA SIGMA PHI AND "FORCED INTEGRATION"

                                               DIPSHITS IN THE NEWS

In the news is the University of Alabama's segregated fraternity/sorority system and efforts on the part of several hundred students and faculty members to get an end to that segregation.  One is reminded of Gov. George Wallace's 1963 attempt to  block the enrollment of black students at the university.   Other Southern images of efforts to block integration come to mind, as when, in 1964, Georgia Gov. Lester Maddox stood in the doorway of his restaurant with an ax handle to prevent its "forced integration."

The New York times reports that "most Greek organizations have barred their members from speaking to reporters about the issue."  However,  junior Sam Creeden, who marched in favor of integration,  said about his fraternity brothers in Delta Sigma Phi, ". . . they are actually worried that this will be supporting sort of forced integration."

So, we've come full circle.  But maybe things are better than in the 1960's.  I don't suppose the Delta Sigma Phi brothers  sport ax handles on fraternity row.