Alpha Rho Upsilon

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Alpha Rho Upsilon ( ??? in Greek, ARU in Latin/English pronounced A-roo) is a fraternity at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, from 1946 until it was dissolved in 1990. Until then he occupied a Victorian-style wooden frame house at 238 Maine Street.

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Establishment and history

An offshoot of the Thorndike Club, a dining club set up in 1937 for non-fraternity students on campus, the ARU was founded in 1946 by a group of Bowdoin students, including World War II veterans, in reaction to the Jewish and African exemptions. American students from other campus fraternities at the time. The ARU letter stands for "All Races United," and they live up to their name, for example, sponsoring a Japanese student in 1951. History Professor Ernst Christian Helmreich was a faculty advisor to Thorndike Club from 1937-1946. German Professor Fritz Carl August Koelln is a longtime faculty adviser to the fraternity. Recognizing the discriminatory practices of the fraternal system of the day against African American and Jewish students, Professors Helmreich and Koelln played an important role in the formation of the ARU as a brotherhood that welcomes students of all religions and ethnic backgrounds into their fellowship. That Thorndike Club and, therefore, ARU appear to be evidence of male family sadness is divided on the basis of skin color, ethnicity or religious beliefs. The meaning of ARU is never lost by his brothers.

ARU originally lived in Moore Hall, one of the Bowdoin dormitories, then moved to a former boarding school on 264 Maine Street before buying their Maine Street 238 house from the Sigma Nu fraternity.

An architectural hybrid of Colonial Revival and Shingle Style featuring Palladian windows, gambrels, peaked dormer, and a front porch linked to Ionic columns, the ARU house was built between 1894 and 1900 as the residence of George Taylor and Edith Davis Files. A graduate of 1889 Bowdoin, George File was a German professor in college until his death in 1919 after returning from France, where he had assisted the YMCA with war effort. In 1921, Ny. The file conferred the professorship of George Taylor in Modern Languages ​​at Bowdoin and sold his home to Sigma Nu, who then sold it to ARU in 1951 after moving to Hartley Cone Baxter House on this campus. "New wing" added behind in 196? [NEED DATE] with six double rooms and two bathrooms.

Another college-approved college in Bowdoin is a local branch of a national fraternity that opposes the entry of "minorities" and women to their ranks. Bowdoin first recognized women as a freshman in 1971, but acknowledged women as exchange students, and later transfers, beginning in 196? NEED DATE. ARU chooses to be a direct partner when women first receive female exchange students are accepted, and many join ARU. Bowdoin's first female graduate, transferring Susan Jacobs '70, was an ARU.

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Government

The ARU Executive Council, elected by popular voice of fraternal members, consists of a President, Vice President, Treasurer, Social Chair, Recruitment Secretary, Secretary of Correspondent, Officials, Head of New Student Orientation, Guest Evening Chairman and Historian. To honor the origin of World War II fraternity veterans, coinciding with the nickname "Flyers" (see below), the Executive Board is informally called the Strategic Air Command, and its first six positions are dubbed Pilot, Co-pilot, Navigator, Tailgunner, Log Keeper and Radioman, each. Each elected official gave his own report at a weekly meeting of the brotherhood. For a period in the early 1970s until the mid-1980s there was an ad hoc Joint Chiefs committee.

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Activities and traditions

"Freshmen Raid" and "Freshman Prank" are designed to instill a fraternity between incoming classes. Raid demanded the frosh to plan a secret attack, midnight to control the House, wake up the upper classes by tying them in their beds or locking them in their rooms or the like. The Prank engages in tricks being played elsewhere on campus, and ideally will add to the reputation for the excitement enjoyed by ARU. Stealing the front door of the TD and stealing all the toilet seats at Zate's house is an example. Both houses regain their lost belongings, and ARU's reputation for the stunt is madly polished.

ARU also established a college-level award, the James Bowdinto Cup, awarded annually to a leading athlete in the school.

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Dissolution

Arrears with college forced the closure of the ARU in 1990, which initiated the conversion of all the Bowdoin fraternities into the college's social home system, where incoming students were affiliated with "college houses" associated with their first year's dorm. Each of the houses was renamed after a prominent alumni from the fraternity. The Fraternity House of the ARU was renamed Helmreich House after the history of Bowdoin and professor of political science Ernst Christian Helmreich, a faculty advisor to Thorndike Club. His grandchildren, James '81 and Alan '83, are also members.

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Dear Alumni

Other leading ARU alumni include author & amp; Journalist Gordon Weil '54, Judge Berle M. Schiller '65, Congressman Tom Andrews '75, noted economist Larry Lindsey '76, opera singer Kurt Ollmann '77, and science fiction writer Walter H. Hunt '81.

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External links

• Bowdoin College
• Account of incorporation of Alpha Rho Upsilon by one of the founding members

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References

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