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About The Noble NoZe Brotherhood

Baylor University’s oldest and most irreverent society, The Noble NoZe Brotherhood is an underground group that does not exist and definitely does not publish a satirical rag newspaper three times a semester in order to enlighten and humor the masses. Founded in Brooks Hall in 1918, the society was originally formed as a joke regarding Leonard Shoaf, a freshman with a large nose. Shoaf's nose was of "such great length and breadth of nostril" that his friends proclaimed they could "form a club around it.” The society became a popular, irreverent campus fixture in the years that followed, poking fun at its rivals, the Baylor University Chamber of Commerce, appearing in Baylor's yearbook the Round-Up, and writing the occasional humorous piece for the yearbook or Baylor's newspaper, The Lariat. In order to rush into the NoZe Brotherhood, each potential new member had to submit an essay. Their acceptance was based on both originality and creativity. Each member needed to obtain and keep a 3.8 GPA, the highest GPA of any organization on campus many times. In 1954, the society began publishing its own satirical newspaper, The Rope (spoofing the campus newspaper The Lariat), taking aim at Baylor University and the Baptist Church, employing satire and absurdity, and developing a unique writing style known as "NoZe prose".

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