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A study of the relationship between living environment press and retention of freshman pledges in fraternities at Oregon State University

Creator:

Smith, Clayton Nowlin

Abstract:

The purposes of this study were first to determine if there were significant differences in living environment press, i.e., the pressure on an individual to behave in a certain way, between those fraternity chapters that had the highest freshman pledge retention rates and those that had the lowest. If significant...

Resource Type:

Dissertation

Full Text:

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