Editing Delta Upsilon (section)

====Harvard University====
[[File:Fly Club, Harvard University, 2009.jpg|thumb|right|Delta Upsilon's first Harvard chapter revolted, disaffiliated, and ultimately merged with the Fly Club, whose clubhouse is pictured. A more recent colonization attempt proved similarly disastrous.]]
When the fraternity incorporated in 1909 it adopted a new constitution. The Harvard chapter immediately set-forth its views that the new constitution had been illegitimately enacted and had overly vested control in the professional leadership, undermining the ability of the chapters to democratically express themselves. Though a number of other chapters initially signaled support for the Harvard position, a proposed amendment to the new document failed. In 1915 the Harvard chapter stopped paying dues to the fraternity. A further shot across the bow of the international fraternity came when Harvard requested headquarters stop sending copies of the ''Delta Upsilon Quarterly'' because they "littered up the house". Open revolt came when the international fraternity tried to impose discipline on Harvard. Harvard responded by declaring it didn't recognize the authority of DU headquarters as Delta Upsilon had ceased to exist in 1909.<ref name="hund" /> Delta Upsilon sued its rebellious chapter whose leaders included toy heir [[F.A.O. Schwarz Jr.]]<ref>{{cite news |date=18 March 1924 |title=D. U. Members in Court On Dispute Over Clubhouse |url=http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1924/3/28/d-u-members-in-court-on/ |newspaper=The Harvard Crimson |access-date=17 December 2014}}</ref> Following the courtroom triumph of the DU headquarters, it expelled the rebellious members and initiated a hand-picked pledge class to continue the chapter.<ref name="hund" /> Its victory was short-lived, though, as the recreated chapter itself voted to disaffiliate from Delta Upsilon. The secessionist group legally reconstituted itself as "the D.U. Club", taking the chapter roll book with them, and existed as a successful [[finals club]] for many decades on the Harvard campus. In 1995, the D.U. Club closed after an assault of a football recruit occurred at its clubhouse.<ref>{{cite journal |author=Jonathan A. Lewin |date=March 18, 1995 |title=Final Club Closed After Recruit Is Beaten In Fight |journal=The Harvard Crimson |url=http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1995/3/18/final-club-closed-after-recruit-is/}}</ref>  The D.U. Club's alumni board voted to merge its alumni with the [[Fly Club]].<ref>{{cite news |date=March 1998 |title=An Accident Waiting to Happen? |url=https://harvardmagazine.com/1999/03/jhj.accident.html |newspaper=[[Harvard Magazine]] |access-date=16 December 2014 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Granade |first=Matthew |date=6 June 1996 |title=Fly and D.U. Final Clubs Decide to Merge Assets, Alumni Membership |url=http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1996/6/6/fly-and-du-final-clubs-decide/ |newspaper=The Harvard Crimson |access-date=16 December 2014 }}</ref>

After several decades of patient waiting for the D.U. Club to pass, Delta Upsilon chartered yet another chapter at Harvard. The new chapter was installed in 1999, four years after the D.U. Club had merged with the Fly Club. It unraveled faster than its predecessors, however. In 2005 the six-year-old Delta Upsilon chapter voted to disaffiliate from the fraternity. It has continued under the name "Oak Club" and currently claims more than 100 alumni who, it says, embody "many of the original DU principles".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.theoakclub.org/history |title=History |website=theoakclub.org |publisher=The Oak Club |access-date=16 December 2014}}</ref>