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THE CHICAGO INTERFRATERNITY CONFERENCE

(As reported in Shield of Phi Kappa Psi.)

Representatives of fifty-five fraternities and sororities met at Chi-
cago, May 30th and 31st, upon invitation of the executive council
of Delta Upsilon, to consider matters of general interest to all
Greek-letter societies. The immediate cause of the calling of the
congress was the introduction during the past winter in the legis-
latures of many states of bills hostile to fraternities. The congress
decided to establish a permanent information bureau, to be known
as the College Fraternity Bureau, with headquarters in Chicago.
The duties of this bureau are set forth in the following resolution,
which was adopted by the delegates:

Whereas, there has recently been threatened legislation, hostile to
fraternities in some states, and anti-fraternity action by faculties in
some American colleges and universities; and

Whereas, there is need for combined action on the part of the
fraternities to combat the enactment of such hostile laws and regu-
lations; and

Whereas, action looking to this end ought to be initiated in the
shortest, quickest and most effective way;

Therefore, be it resolved, by the representatives of the fifty odd
fraternities represented at this conference, that there be established
as soon as practicable, a bureau of information at Chicago, 111., to
be maintained by intercollegiate fraternities of the United States,
to be known as the College Fraternity Bureau:

I t shall be the duty of this Bureau :

L To collect and maintain a reference library containing all ac-
cessible data concerning fraternities, with reference to pending or
threatened anti-fraternity action by legislatures or faculties.

2. To furnish such data to the local organizations of various
universities and colleges as these organizations may find such data
necessary.

3. To conduct in such manner as may seen best a campaign of
publicity calculated to disseminate knowledge concerning fraterni-
ties among the American people, and particularly in those states
where the fraternities have been, or are likely to be, attacked, that
will tend to explain fairly the aims and purposes of fraternities and
to eradicate and overcome false impressions and statements.

Such bureau shall be managed and controlled by an executive
committee of nine (afterward changed to ten) members, of whom
not less than three shall be members of sororities and at least one