Word: alpha
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Afro-American Society and Alpha Phi Alpha, the only black fraternity at Dartmouth, requested that the Faculty Council cancel all classes after 10 a.m. today so that those organizations could sponsor a symposium on racial issues at the college...
...Afro-American Society and Alpha Phi Alpha, responding to two race-related incidents that sparked two rallies in under a week, submitted a set of fourteen demands to the college calling for across-the-board recognition of minority issues and concerns. The demands include...
...Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the guru from India who brought TM to Europe and the U.S. TM organizers are also putting together an index of rehabilitation, though there is some doubt that parole boards would-or should-judge an inmate ready for release on the basis of things like improved alpha and theta brain waves. Penal authorities are more likely to be persuaded by the support TM has so far given parolees through free counseling at the 80 TM centers around the state...
...They drank to excess, indulged in lots of speed, lived crazy and spent big. "There was a time," recalls Barry, "when I could walk out the front door and every car to the end of the street was mine, from the white Rolls at the front door to the Alpha at the corner." Maurice, who had five Rolls-Royces and six Aston Martins, practiced his own kind of inventory control by periodically pickling himself and trashing one of the cars. Says he: "I was getting to be a real alky...
...less advanced in the use of solar energy and employ nuclear power supplies more frequently in earth orbit. Furthermore, to generate high power (100 kilowatts or more), they use a fission process, which produces radioactive strontium 90, cesium and iodine - all far more threatening to human life than the alpha particles generated by the U.S.'s plutonium 238 fuel...