#Gauge

The Betamen returned to the Champion’s dais in 1960, after a heated three way competition in 1959 in which Phi Kappa Psi played the spoiler, sapping points and placing Sigma Phi Epsilon in the lead position. The establishment of Delta Psi at Vermont was met with disdain by student newspaper The College Maul, which opined: Subsequent issues of the paper included similar denouncements. Nonetheless, Delta Psi’s policy of pledging freshmen helped quickly grow the chapter and pressured Lambda Iota and Sigma Phi into opening themselves to underclass students. [Read More]