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TDB has almost from the first issue had on its "Find a Duke Beta to write this article" list the words "History of Housing", telling where the Beta Section was at Duke, why and when it moved, and something about the differences in each section. Obviously, this is one of the things that was never gotten around to. The project is still on the list, but the task now would have to be expanded into a major research project. For years it was generally assumed that a fraternity would stay where it was so long as it could fill the section, even if it had to be done by some non fraternity members. The decision was thought to have been made by some unnamed member of the Duke administration. Perhaps there was some cheating, perhaps there was not, in any event, many complained, but the system worked for many years.

Now things have changed. Things really started to change when the administration decreed that there could be no fraternities on the main quad. A lot of reasons were given, none of them very meaningful. Then something called the Residential Group Assessment Committee which is connected in some way with the Campus Council took over the job of determining which group lived in which section. RGAC, using a complicated formula understood by few, determines which groups can maintain, or to use the present term, squat, in their section.

The ratings are impossible on their face as there are different standards for different size groups and apparently different standards for fraternities and other Selective Living Groups. Couple these ratings with the requirements of the Residential Life and Housing Services, an administration office with the appropriate responsibility of requiring that all student housing is utilized by the SLG, with its two size allotments and it is no wonder that the Durham bar may be developing a specialty in assisting groups who want to live together on campus.

Thus, a Duke Beta smart enough to pull all this together from the first section occupied by Gamma Rho to what can be expected if Beta ever gets back to Duke is welcome to try and your article will be published.