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January 24, 2022

Heritage Project — Fraternity war

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In the fall term of 1845, just four years after classes had begun at the University of Michigan, a junior named George Becker and several friends joined together to create U-M’s first fraternity, a chapter of Beta Theta Pi. As they all knew, they were breaking Rule 20 of the university’s code of student conduct.
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