An official of Lake Forest College said today that David C. Schiller of Chicago had been ousted from the Phi Delta Theta fraternity chapter on orders of the fraternity’s national council because he was Jewish.
Howard Hoogesteger, dean of students said that the youth, who refused to comment on the announcement, had been pledged to the chapter in November and that the action was reversed early in January by the national council.
The dean said that the youth was continuing to live at the fraternity house as a “social member.” A student-faculty-trustee-alumni group disclosed that the chapter had pledged the Chicago student in the hope that the action “would be approved by the national council.”
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