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The Mu Mu Chapter at Stanford University.
The Mu Mu Chapter was founded at Leland Stanford Junior University in 1890, presumably by people with connections to the chapter at nearby Berkeley. The chapter was technically illegitimate at its founding, Berkeley never having informed the Alpha chapter of the creation of the Mu Mu or having secured a charter for it. In 1894, the chapter was publicly recognized on campus although still not legitimately chartered. However, in 1911, the chapter was legitimized by the United National, making Mu Mu legitimate. Also, prior to 1911, the chapter went by the name Omega. The chapter thrived from the first and became a strong chapter. In 1897 the Σκψλλ Κάι Σνάκες society, (English words written in Greek letters, and universally called Skull and Snakes), was organized as a Senior class society by the Omega Chapter as a class society adjunct. The Mu Mu Chapter, like the Berkeley Chapter, retained the public Tap Day exercises of Yale class societies. Or rather, they added them; since the Alpha Chapter never did Tap Days, this was something the Berkeleyians had gotten on their own by their own knowledge of Yale. The Tap Day ceremonies were originally conducted by the Mu Mu Chapter, but after Skull and Snakes was organized, it conducted Tap Days and the Mu Mu Chapter did not. It was very likely that Skull and Snakes was organized solely for the purpose of having a senior class society to conduct public Tap Days. The memoribilia of the chapter include handouts from these Tap Days. The Mu Mu Chapter was driven from the society in the 1913-16 Interfraternity Conflict, and it is not clear what happened to the chapter after then. The Skull and Snakes society survived at least until 1936. The closeness of the relationship of the two societies is unclear. Important research contributions to this article were made by John B. Kendrick.
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