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ecame known as "a good place to get your drugs." 158 These problems worsened with therelease of National Lampoon's Animal House in 1978. This movie depicted Greek life asfull of wild parties, pot smoking and violence, and recruits to all fraternities came seekingthat environment and transformed the fraternities into a venue for liability and riskmanagement issues. This brought negative press to the entire system, which onlyworsened in the 1980's, a decade in which at least forty-five students were killed inhazing incidents. 159 These negative elements soon replaced the original cherished valuesof brotherhood and fraternalism, bringing organizations further from their foundingprinciples and values. 160Similar to the dark days of Greek life brought on after World War II, Greek liferecovered from this period of depraved and dangerous behavior Fraternities andsororities started to grow again in the mid 1980-s through the 1990's, this time embracingdiversity. This period of growth is characterized by the foundation of multicultural,religious, Asian, Latino and Latina, Black, Muslim, Native American and Gay andLesbian organizations that replaced the traditional fraternities. This time period, in whichstudents prided themselves in their heritage, resulted in the birth of many organizationsthrough which college students could express cultural pride. Jewish organizations suchas AEPI regained their Jewish identity lost decades before. This decade also saw thebirth of Sigma Alpha Epsilon Pi, a Jewish sorority founded on October 1, 1998 at theUniversity of California, Davis.158 Sanua, Here's To Our Fraternity, 248159 Sanua, Here's To Our Fraternity, 279160 Sanua, Here's To Our Fraternity, 26645