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Schaffer was formerly internal vice president of the fraternity Pi Kappa Alpha, but has been “incommunicado” with the group for about a year, said Raymond E. Hill ’05, president of the fraternity...
While campus feminists from groups like Radcliffe Union of Students have criticized the final clubs, frats have actually pitched in to help women’s groups campaigning against sexual violence. Last year two fraternities, Sigma Chi and Alpha Epsilon Pi both helped sponsor Take Back the Night, a week of events in April that is designed to raise awareness about sexual assault on campus...
...repute for his talent as a wordsmith and songwriter. In 2002 he joined the esteemed roster of famed British label 4AD, alma mater of the Pixies, Throwing Muses, and Cocteau Twins. Tallahassee, the first release on his new label, was a concept album that concretized the “alpha-series,” a smattering of songs scattered through his albums that told the epic saga of a Florida couple on the brink of divorce. Tallahassee’s follow-up, We Shall All Be Healed, is a similar album of cleanly recorded story-telling that inches the Goats...
...there is no shortage of blood.” Tallahassee’s concept grows tired at times—one wonders in just how many ways this relationship can be described, but the arch to the album is successfully completed with the blithe closer “Alpha Rats’ Nest,” a hopeful plea for a happy perpetuation of this love/hate relationship...
...ability to stay positive is a good thing for Urquidez, “the Texan, hispanic frat machine,” as Fishman calls him. Fishman also affirms Omar’s dedication and Pi Iota Alpha pride, saying that “[Omar’s] collection of frat t-shirts accounts for a good chunk of his wardrobe...