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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why are high powered individuals from such elite and rarified societies wasting their valuable time and  energy on an anonymous parenting chat forum?[/quote]

Hard to believe, I know, but the rich and connected have kids, too. [/quote]

Rich and connected is fine but someone was carrying on like this was some elite special group.[/quote]

What’s that got to do with anything?[/quote]

St. A is considered just another frat at Penn. They may try to mimic the Harvard final clubs, but they’re not the Fly or the Owl.. [/quote]

St. A’s at Columbia refused to have anything to do with St. A’s at Penn because, inter alia, St. A’s at Penn was not coed. At least it wasn’t back when I was in college. Whether that’s still the case I don’t know.  Penn was a VERY atypical chapter of St. A’s. [b]Fly at Harvard used to be Harvard’s chapter of Alpha Delta Phi which was Harvard’s most elite frat until Harvard closed its frats.[/b] [/quote]

The Fly has nothing to do with ADP in the last 50 years; that it was once an ADP chapter in the early 19th century is irrelevant now. None of the frats at Harvard were for men who couldn’t get punched at a club. The reason the single sex final clubs are still open while the frats closed is that the powerful alums all belong to the clubs.

You’re reaching pretty hard here.

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I don’t understand your point. Harvard used to have frats but closed them. Harvard’s Alpha Delta Phi split into two clubs, Fly and A.D.  Initiates to ADP are taught that, of the two, Fly has maintained more of the ADP traditions. I’m not claiming that’s true; I don’t know, I’m just saying that’s what’s taught. There were discussions between ADP’s international headquarters and Fly about allowing members of Fly to be pledged into ADP (presumably at MIT). I don’t think anything came of those discussions because it would have been a logistical nightmare. [/quote]

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