Yale Daily News

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Fraternities attempt to rehabilitate their image

Staff Reporter
Published Friday, March 31, 2006

With an increased emphasis on service and chivalry over beirut and binge drinking, fraternity brothers at Yale and across the country are feeling pressure to renew their focus on "gentlemanly" conduct.

During the past year, as fraternities have taken fire for underage drinking and often dangerous hazing of new pledges, leaders of national chapters said they have begun working in greater earnest to replace the stereotypical image of fraternity life with a more refined and altruistic image.

Through the enforcement of the Balanced Man program in the nation's largest...

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