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Syracuse University has opted for a more touchy-feely approach. The school sends young female health educators to brief sororities on the dangers of excessive drinking. Associate dean Bergen-Cico presided over a recent session for 40 members of Alpha Chi Omega. Among other things, she told them what many already knew from personal experience: weight-conscious women tend to skip meals before drinking, to conserve calories, making them more easily affected by alcohol. One simple solution: make sure they eat a hearty meal before they hit the bars. Patrick Kilcarr of Georgetown finds that nutrition information...
...January, after talks with the Group and local shopkeepers, represented by Clavien, Lausanne's police department launched Operation Alpha, and relief for St. Laurent now stalks the streets in the shape of Patrick Martin. In black combat gear and bullet proof vests, touting an array of dissuasive weaponry, Martin and his six colleagues of the Alpha Squad are a no-nonsense message to the cocaine dealers, a comfort to the locals and, in the end, probably whistling in the wind. "They aim for visibility," says Christian Séchaud, of the Lausanne police, and to scare dealers off the streets...
Martin's job then is to police a line that lies somewhere between the undesirable and the unenforceable. He and the rest of the Alpha Squad are relentless and polite, though the African dealers claim they are being targeted on account of their color. "I understand that they feel this way, but we're just doing our job," Martin says. Some in St. Laurent think the effects are cosmetic. "The dealers are like a swarm of flies - they disappear when the police come, only to reappear a few hours later, bothering people and scaring the hell out of us," says...
There are no “For Sale” signs plastered to big, beautiful houses around Harvard Square, which is too bad for the brothers of Pi Kappa Alpha (“Pike”), Harvard’s newest fraternity. They hope one day to have their own place to party despite the discouraging state of the Cambridge real estate market and the fact that other fraternities have tried and failed to maintain a building—or a high profile—on campus...
...launch the fraternity at Harvard. Parry says Pike develops new chapters based on recommendations from other members across the country, and he was recommended by his friends at Southern Methodist University and Vanderbilt University. After contacting Parry and asking for further recommendations, Pike also contacted the Kappa Alpha Theta and Delta Gamma sororities on campus and asked members to suggest Harvard guys who qualified, in the words of the frat website, as “individuals who set scholarship as their top priority; who involve themselves on campus and in the community; who are competitive and team players...