Show Frat Frat- Sorority Members Prove Best Students c 1 Th The scholastic Ic e a average age m maintained int ned I last year year- yearby by Uy members of oL University of or ut Utah h. h fraternities and sororities s sIs Is considerably higher than the average for members mem mern- bers bers It revealed In i was as Friday figurea figures fig fig- urea ures prepared re b by Miss J Jeanne Home assistant recorder at the university Sorority girls earned an on n. n average a of or honor points while the average for tor all girls in tho the three upper upper classes was wai 1 16 honor points The freshman girls girls' girls average avei ge honor points Arnon Among the tho m male te students fraternity fraternity frater fraler pien 11 averaged 1 8 p points while aU nH men n a above ovo the freshman class averaged points Freshmen averaged d points s. s These averages s aro are computed on ona ona a a. basis of 1 point for tor a no C grade 2 for rol fora forB ri B grade rade and 3 3 for fot an A grad SEES EXPLANATION Miss Miss Homo Home believes believes' tt that it thle thie tilt dlf- I ference in the x scholarship is pic i ex-i by br the thc fact tact that th natt national nation nation- nal n- n al offices of or fraternities s d ar I ties tare Lare arc e emphasizing sch scholarship Ja while tho students have ha no such driving Impetus The Thc university figures s are are In n ac accord accord ac- ac cord cOld with with tho the findings of oC th tire tho national na ira- tio nl tem It Ity conference fO following its ly years years' c s st study o 1 i colleges colleges' with more than Continued on op page paso 4 a S Frat Sorority Members Prove Best Students C Continued from r rn pa go 04 a. a students Tho conference which Includes seventy national ties with a tL total membership of C men found that fraternity uI then men n averaged nearly 2 per cent hh higher her than men ANSWERS QUESTION Alvin E. E Duerr who conducted d the do national research on scholarship Scholar Scholar- ship hip ship feels c Js that the tho survey answers the ho mooted long-mooted question as 8 to whether the tho benefits fraternity men received In social and extracurricular lar ar activities acU and md contacts were wera purchased purchased pur- pur chased at tho the price of or scholarship Ho lo feels that since the development O ot f large colleges and the thc separation ot of f faculty and student contacts tho the fraternities are arc filling tillinG a a. need by providing students with personal guidance |