The Michigan Daily-Saturday, September 12, 1981-Page 7
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NEW YORK (AP)- Marine Midland
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commercial bank, lowered its prime
rate yesterday, two days after
Republican members of Congress
blasted the financial community for
high interest rates.
In trimming its prime from 20.5 per-
cent to 20 percent, Marine Midland of
Rochester, N.Y., matched the
decreases made Aug. 31 by No. 3 Chase
Manhattan Bank ,and No. 9 First
National Bank of Chicago.
IT WAS AN indication that interest
rates might be declining, and by the
close of trading on -Wall Street the Dow
Jones industrial average had risen 18.37
points.
Thomas Thomson, chief economist
for 'Crocker National Bank in -San
Frangisco, suggested yesterday that
an industry wide move to the 20 percent
level could come next week.
The prime rate is what banks charge
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It is an indicator of a bank's costs of
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Coed Theta Xi alumni board
may exclude women members
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"We figured we could talk to the con-
vention delegates over the next two
years (1980 and 1981) to educate them
about us and try to change their votes,"
said Bob Mitton, last year's house
.president. "All the chapters in our
region support us ... our major op-
ponents are in Louisiana and Califor-
nia."
Mitton said, however, that current
house members are- divided on the
issue..
"THE MALE-FEMALE issue is
*!hurting us," he said. "Until it's
-'decided, mihny people have the idea
that one of these days we'll kick the
women out."
House resident Dave White said he
believes the fraternity should become
all-male. "The general reaction (to my
view) is that I must feel women are not
important - that we're bet-
ter than they are. But that's not the
case," White explained. "It's just an
unusual situation, and it creates some
unusual problems.
As an example, White cited "in-house
romances" where the couple eventually
breaks up. "How do you break up and
still live together?" he asked. "There's
no feeling that the women cause
problems-rather, the men and women
together cause problems."
THETA XI was established at the
,University in 1915, but women did not
begin moving into the house until 1972.
"There were severe problems with
the fraternity-sorority system on cam-
pus at the time," explained Wolf, who
was living in the house when it became
coed. "In the winter of 1972, there were
problems" with rush campus-wide . . .
we had done very poorly," he said.
"We thought that adding women
would make it (Theta Xi) fit in more
with the coed campus housing at-
mosphere," Wolf said.
ACCORDING TO Fought, the house
went coed "basically for financial
reasons . .. The house could have either
folded or given women a try," she said.
The local alumni board owned the
mortgage on the house and made house
policies. After it agreed to the change,
the board petitioned the convention of
the national Theta Xi fraternity
organization, which approved the move
by an exact two-thirds majority.
In 1980, the local chapter submitted a
mandatory progress report showing a
decrease in the number of women
members. The report was accepted
(approved) by the national convention
delegates. According to Fought,
however, the reduction in the number of
females was not a voluntary one, but
rather a natural result of a decline in
membership.
At the house, the members, male and
female, calmly go about the business of
moving in. "We're not 'up in arms'
because there's nothing we can do ex-
cept wait," said one female member
who asked not to be identified.
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