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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
PresentPresently, the following organizations continue to identify nationally as Jewish:Alpha Epsilon Pi, Alpha Epsilon Phi, Sigma Alpha Epsilon Pi, Sigma Alpha Mu, SigmaDelta Tau, and Zeta Beta Tau. Though Tau Epsilon Phi still identifies as a Jewishfraternity, its board filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy on January 24, 2011 and it consists offewer than 20 chapters. It is likely to close soon. 161Although the organizations havevacillated between secular and Jewish, each organization proudly recalls its Jewishhistory.An organization's mission statement is a reflection of the agenda and values of thenational organization. AEPI's mission statement powerfully states:Alpha Epsilon Pi develops leadership for the future of the AmericanJewish community. Tomorrow's Jewish leaders are in our chapters today.These are the young men who must be counted upon to support Jewishcauses and to prepare to be one of tomorrow's Jewish leaders, so that theymay aid themselves, their family, their community, and their people.Those students who enter the mainstream of non-Jewish life on thecampus are far more likely to assimilate and to forsake their heritage.Working together with the Foundation for Jewish CampusLife/International Hillel, Alpha Epsilon Pi can play a vital role in helpingreverse the growing trend among our young people to abandon Judaism atthis critical time. 162Its mission statement additionally discusses AEPI's Jewish history, and the role it servesfor its members. Adhering to anti-discriminatory clauses set in the 1950's, its statementspecifically notes that while it welcomes non-Jewish men, it embraces all those "willing161 John Eligon, "Tau Epsilon Phi's Infighting Moves to Bankruptcy Court - NYTimes.com," Metro - CityRoom Blog - NYTimes.com, January 28, 2011, section goes here, accessed April 28, 2011,http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/28/a-fraternitys-fight-could-lead-to-its-end/.162 "Mission Statement." Alpha Epsilon Pi. Accessed April 28, 2011.http://www.aepi.org/?page=MissionStatement.46
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