Word: alpha
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...Heavily. At these events, phrases like "Here's a fifth, drink it" pop up frequently. After an afternoon and evening of such drinking, a new pledge (and several others) passed out in the fraternity house. Thinking that they had simply had a little much, the other members of Sigma Alpha Epsilon let them lie there. Only after several hours did they take the unconscious members to a hospital. Doctors said they all suffered from alcohol poisoning, and pronounced...
Benjamin Wynne, 20, underwent two of the most time-honored rites of passage at Louisiana State University last week. He received a pledge pin from the fraternity that voted him into the brotherhood, and he got rip-roaring drunk to celebrate. Wynne and his fellow Sigma Alpha Epsilon brothers began their bacchanalia with an off-campus keg party featuring "funneling," in which beer is shot through a rubber hose into the drinker's mouth. Next came a communal bender at Murphy's bar, a frat hangout a few hundred yards from L.S.U. There, the libation of choice was "Three Wise...
...them feel welcome to more, at a price. Cunanan had an astonishing range of knowledge: of the way the U.S. military command is structured--and of the hierarchy of chimpanzees. Zeeland recalls that Cunanan would jokingly refer to his friend Trail, in the lingo of chimp studies, as an "alpha male," adding that subordinate chimps paid homage to alpha males by displaying their genitals. He would then proceed to do so, remaining fully clothed. It was Trail, the alpha male, who would be bludgeoned to death with a claw hammer in the apartment of Cunanan's ex-lover Madson...
...This is an honor that carries with it no tangible prize," said Professor of English and Comparative Literature James Engell '73, who is the president of the society's Alpha Iota chapter. "It is similar to...an achievement much like a laurel, so to replace it with something concrete would be to devalue...
With the ramparts collapsing around him, Digital CEO Robert Palmer must have seen little choice but all-out attack. The lawsuit claims Intel infringed on 10 Digital patents related to Alpha and other chips--though Palmer doesn't claim this piracy occurred during negotiations between the companies in 1990 and '91. Intel was then considering licensing Alpha technology for its next-generation chip; after both companies signed a confidentiality agreement, Dig- gital revealed the Alpha design. But the talks fell apart, and Pentium, sans Alpha, went on to become the soul...