Today, these writings are regularly used to instruct the fraternity's probationary members about the obligations and expectations of fraternity membership.

But that year, the college became coed, and by the mid-1990's, fraternity membership shrank to about one-third of students.

Despite an overall decline in fraternity membership during the late 1960s, Phi Delta Theta continued to expand through a carefully controlled process known as "colonization."

Once initiated, a brother is entitled to all rights and privileges of fraternity membership unless he formally resigns or is expelled.

In May 1926, the school issued one year suspensions to 53 students under the claim that their Sunday school classes served as a front for fraternity membership.

Delta Sigma Phi went through continued expansion during the 1920s, at this time many local fraternities and other social clubs petitioned for fraternity membership.

As fraternity membership was punishable by expulsion at many colleges at this time, the house was located deep in the woods.

In the early 1930s, the United States was in the midst of the Great Depression, and college enrollment and fraternity membership had dropped significantly.

The NIC is also committed to enhancing the benefits of fraternity membership.

During the early 1970s, fraternity membership in general dropped again as controversy raged on college campuses over the Vietnam War and any "establishment" organization.