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all college journals published by him. He was granted the privilege 3. COPY
of speaking at an adjourned session on Thursday evening. A. —Chapter Department
2. F I N A N C E S OF F R A T E R N I T Y JOURNALS: Delta Zeta—Chapter selects its own subjects.
Pi Beta Phi—Each chapter one article per year for any one of
A. Fines—Most fraternities reported that collect telegrams served three issues for the department: What a Fraternity Girl Thinks.
adequately in gathering late material. Alpha X i Delta, Zeta Tau Kappa Kappa Gamma—Parthenon, undergraduate department.
Alpha, Sigma Kappa, Kappa Delta, and Alpha Chi Omega employ Chapter selects its own topic.
fines. Chi Omega—Chapter is given choice of several subjects to be con-
tributed December 1st. Each chapter sends three articles; each
B. Life Subscriptions: alumna? chapter, one article.
Pi Beta Phi—life subscription since 1908; $10 required of all Kappa Delta—Each chapter provides one article for each issue,
initiates.
by personal request.
Kappa Kappa Gamma—$15.00 five-year subscription, required Phi Mu—Each chapter—three articles.
of initiates. May pay additional $10 to complete life subscription. Alpha Omicron Pi—Editor requests articles from individuals.
Delta Delta Delta—Editor requests articles from individuals.
Phi Mu—$15.' Delta Gamma—Voluntary contributions from alumna?.
Chi Omega—$15. Does not push life subscription. Sigma Kappa—General line of thought is suggested by Editor to
Kappa Delta—$15 in three installments. Are losing money.
Phi Mu—$15 in three payments. chapter.
Alpha X i Delta—Two articles per chapter per quarter required.
Alpha Omicron Pi—Are working on $10 subscriptions in $2.50 Alpha Phi—Each chapter one article.
installments. I f last installment is not paid, the subscriber loses Alpha Delta Pi—Each chapter one article per issue.
what has been paid. Kappa Alpha Theta—1,000 words required per chapter per annum.
Sigma Kappa and Delta Zeta have voluntary life subscriptions. An outline of subjects is given to chapters in the autumn to select
Alpha X i Delta—$15 ; not paying. from. One thousand five hundred words required every two years
from alumna? chapters.
Kappa Alpha Theta—$15. Not many subscriptions. Initiates
required to take out life subscription at $9. As undergraduates they Alpha Chi Omega—One article required each year from every
take annual $1.00 subscriptions. Alumnae may take out a life sub- active member. Subjects generally chosen by the members. From
scription for $8 until January 1st. alumna? articles are requested by the Editor on definite subjects with
definite limits. Occasional articles often requested from undergradu-
C. Economies: ates.
It was suggested that reduction in exchange lists with men's fra- B. Alumna Department:
ternities would decrease expenses. Most Editors do not send journals
to college libraries free. Some chapters of Delta Delta Delta have Several fraternities have an alumna editor for each chapter. Alpha
taken out life subscriptions for their college libraries. Kappa Alpha Chi Omega has on the staff a national alumna editor. Articles are
Theta uses no leads in composition, and sells waste paper monthly. obtained both through personal requests and voluntary contribution.
Kappa Delta uses a lightly coated paper which takes illustrations. Help from outsiders is obtained by the different Editors through ex-
changes, through magazines of all kinds, and in the case of Chi
D. A cooperative fraternity magazine. Miss Perkins outlined a Omega, from faculty remarks about the Eleusis.
plan whereby journals might economize greatly in labor and materials
at the same time raising the standard of copy. A general board of C. Chapter Letters:
editors could prepare common copy for the body of the magazine;
the separate fraternity Editors would contribute their own chapter Kappa Delta publishes a criticism at the bottom of chapter letter.
letters and fraternity news as one section. The two parts could be Alpha Phi returns unsatisfactory letter with comment: "Does
bound together under the orignal name of the journal, or under some not come up to specifications."
general name, as preferred. This would accelerate also syndicated
advertising.
The chair appointed as an Investigation Committee: Miss Perkins,
Miss Corbett, Kappa Delta, and Miss Green.
