{"id":5662,"date":"2008-06-01T12:00:30","date_gmt":"2008-06-01T16:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/explorebates.wordpress.com\/?p=421"},"modified":"2018-06-04T09:31:43","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T13:31:43","slug":"scene-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2008\/06\/01\/scene-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Rho Beta Phi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/Images\/Bates_Magazine\/2008-summer\/departments\/rhobetaphi-1080CGROUP.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"6\" width=\"400\" height=\"285\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At a college where the absence of fraternities has defined student life, what are we to make of the existence of the early-1960s mock fraternity Rho Beta Phi (&#8220;Roger Bill Fraternity&#8221;)?<\/p>\n<p>In this spring 1961 photo, RBPers pose on and around &#8220;the Hearse,&#8221; the Billmobile that once carried kegs and coeds to a local drive-in. &#8220;Hearses can carry a lot of weight,&#8221; explains John Meyn &#8217;64. The evening&#8217;s short subject was when the boys mooned fellow moviegoers from atop the vehicle. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/x176354.xml\">[More&#8230;]<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a college where the absence of fraternities has defined student life, what are we to make of the existence of the early-1960s mock fraternity Rho Beta Phi (&#8220;Roger Bill Fraternity&#8221;)?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[7,6],"tags":[10856],"class_list":["post-5662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-maine-world","tag-bates-magazine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5662"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62697,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5662\/revisions\/62697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}