Theta Chapter’s scholarship standing on OWU’s campus climbed to 8th of 15 fraternities for the second semester of 1954-55 after a first semester ranking of 12th. This ranking represents only the active chapter because the pledge class (those not initiated last February) scored low enough to drag the entire chapter down to 10th place.
The accumulative active chapter average for the spring semester was 2.5140; the eight pledges got a poor 1.6833. The overall average was 2.4117.
The scholarship situation, in which Theta ranked 50th of 97 Beta Theta Pi chapters during he school year 1953-54, seems to be on the upgrade. The active chapter is trying to bring itself up, as can be seen by the improvement during the 1954-55 school year. Without trying to pass the buck, it can be seen that last semester’s trouble was the men who did hot make their 2.0 point average during the first semester, and then, as initiated social members, failed to show even a semblance of improvement. As scholarship chairman, I intend to bring before the chapter the question of what we are going o do with such men who prove during their pledge semester that they are scholastic “dead wood.” Seven of the eight pledges, who made less than a 2.0 heir first semester and who dragged the chapter down with their flunking grades second semester, did not return to school this year. It may be right here that a large part of our problem lies.
It is too early yet to tell how things will go scholastically this semester. There are too many men who have a big stake riding in finals. We hope, however, that there is a big improvement over last semester.
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