Episode 33: Frat House Blues: The 30-Year Ban on Greek Letter Organizations

Contributors

Chris Horn, University of South Carolina - Columbia

Description

In the late 19th century, students at South Carolina College who were stalwart members of the institution's two debate societies felt that their esteemed clubs were somehow threatened by the existence of fraternities on campus. So they contrived a way to boot the Greek letter organizations off campus. It was a quirky chapter in the university's history that, ultimately, ended badly for one side.

Publication Date

10-5-2021

City

Columbia, SC

Keywords

Euphradian Society, Clariosophic Society, speech, fraternities, dismissal of fraternities, Davison Douglas, Carolina Debate Society.

Disciplines

History

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