Records contain newsletters, clippings, a recruiting proposal, fact sheets and press releases. The material documents the BSU's effort to persuade the university to expand academic course offerings, financial aid, and tutorial programs. It also documents a subsequent confrontation and occupation of a university building and the arrest, expulsion and reinstatement of some of the participants.
Includes: financial records; organizational records, correspondence; chapter meeting reports; chapter histories; chapter officers' handbooks; blank forms; The Bulletin, 1954-1964 (not a complete run); The Radiations of Sigma Pi Sigma, 1950-1964 (not a complete run); photographs; one movie film, The Scouts in Smokies; scrapbook, 1952; student papers submitted as a requirement for membership; membership card index.