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Show Greeks Must Change expenses the council holds concerts throughout the year. They will help sponsor the Berkeley Jazz Festival Festi-val for the second year in a row, and are also planning a Lou Rawls concert and a Spring Concert which may feature the Supremes. In community affairs IFC at Berkeley is the sole supporter of "Big Brother," a program which involves the Berkeley juvenile police po-lice dept. and the Berkeley YMCA in working with young boys in the area. Collectively the fraternities give the largest single donation to Cal-camp, a summer camp for the underprivileged children. For What Purpose To help explain the fraternity system to prospective students, the Berkeley IFC is planning on sending send-ing representatives throughout California to speak about rushing at Cal. At UCLA the interfraternity council spends most of their outside out-side efforts toward making Greek Week a total university success. Last year Greeks and students raised $4731 for a cerebral palsy drive which Dean Chuck Goldberg, Gold-berg, IFC advisor at UCLA called "The first time a major fund-raising project of this substance has been carried out by any IFC council in the country." During their Greek Week, which was held last month, another fund-raising fund-raising project on a much larger scale was attempted. Thev i to raise $10,000 for a schni foundation for deserving from culturally and econ deprived areas in Los a : County. They intend to chai'i money through the Economi n '! portunity Project at UCLA if i will select students for the gram and with the monev r- I by IFC supply them with k tuition, transportation and m for school needs. This desire to change had . encouraged the Berkeley chat? to present a resolution oppos. discrimination in the selection fraternity members at the natioi. Fraternity Council meeting whk was held in New York Nov. 28-ftl 1, last year. But the proposal r' ceived opposition from the Sout ern fraternities and the convents failed to take a vote. But the Greeks at these tt major schools have done nJ than talk about changing. Ttj have gone out and tried to showr community that the exclusively of their system didn't mean t they were the "in" group and: erybody else was "out" of it, I have gained immeasurable res and pride among university t dents and faculty. This kind progressive thinking may halt t downward skid of the Greeks: tem and they will be stronger cause of it. By JAN HEMMING Chronicle Staff Writer The Greeks at UCLA and Berkeley Berk-eley realize that their system is dying. They know the things that once attracted men and women to the system no longer seem as important im-portant to the college student of the 60's. But most of them also know that in order to survive they ' must change. And the change will have to come rapidly. Their plan for survival is to actively ac-tively involve the rest of the university uni-versity campus and the community in a Greek sponsored event. The ' philosophy being that by working side-by-side with other students toward to-ward a common goal they hope to erase the beer -drinking, girl-chasing-Saturday night party image that is often attached to the fraternities. fraterni-ties. The New Focus For the third year in a row the Berkeley Interfraternity Council (IFC) has sponsored in conjunction with ASUC a campus-wide speakers speak-ers bureau which will be focusing on national foreign policy and presidential pres-idential candidates this year. In the past they have succeeded in attracting national political leaders to speak on current issues which seem to be of prime importance to the nation. Last year their program centered cen-tered on civil rights and the senatorial sena-torial election. Appearing as speakers speak-ers were Sen. Robert Kennedy; John Door, Stokely Carmichael, James Meredith, Wayne Morse, Mark Hatfield and Charles Percy. This year possible speakers include in-clude William Buckley, Robert Sheer, Thomas Kuchael, and Ronald Ron-ald Reagan. One For All The speakers come during a special spe-cial spring week which used to be called Greek Week but was changed because the Greeks wanted the entire studentbody and community to participate with them in t h e program. To raise the money for speaker |