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...Front Lines," about the 2nd Battalion, 2nd Marines' Easy Company and its operations battling Iraqi insurgents in Fallujah [IRAQ, May 10], drew a number of letters from veterans who believed that the company's name wasn't Easy but Echo. According to the military's phonetic alphabet?Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta, Echo?E Company would logically be called Echo Company. So why isn't it? As the Marine Corps News reported in January 2003, "The Marines of the current Echo Company have recently been given the green light ... to refer to their company once again, in all but official matters...
There has also been a proliferation of female social groups on campus. This year a new sorority, Kappa Kappa Gamma, joined the two existing campus sororities, Kappa Alpha Theta and Delta Gamma. Other female social clubs—many of which have been established in the last few years—include Isis, Seneca, Bee, Pleiades and Sabliere Society...
...today. Then, the aim of proper dress was to avoid expulsion. But from the ashes of the “rolling cape square” rose a new class of stylish males, the precursors to today’s fashion plates and metrosexuals. Along with a mantra of fashion alpha male-ism, these early males were influenced by the traditional drive for perfection which already pervaded the athletic fields, music halls and classrooms of Old Harvard...
...following juniors have been elected to the Alpha Chapter Phi Beta Kappa. Those elected are: Hillel M. Bennett of Lowell House and Swampscott; Robert J. Doris of Winthrop House and Woonsocket, R.I.; Michael A. Fifer of Lowell House and Elmhurst, N.Y.; Elliot F. Gerson of Quincy House and Storrs, Conn.; Frederick O. Holley of South House and La Jolla, Calif.; David L. Johnson of Adams House and Indianapolis,; Herman B. Leonard of Currier House and New York City; Joseph F. Nagy of Claverly Hall and Arlington; Eliot W. Nelson of Dunster House and Berkeley, Calif.; Edward M. Stolper of Winthrop...
...following juniors have been elected to the Alpha Chapter Phi Beta Kappa. Those elected are: Hillel M. Bennett of Lowell House and Swampscott; Robert J. Doris of Winthrop House and Woonsocket, R.I.; Michael A. Fifer of Lowell House and Elmhurst, N.Y.; Elliot F. Gerson of Quincy House and Storrs, Conn.; Frederick O. Holley of South House and La Jolla, Calif.; David L. Johnson of Adams House and Indianapolis,; Herman B. Leonard of Currier House and New York City; Joseph F. Nagy of Claverly Hall and Arlington; Eliot W. Nelson of Dunster House and Berkeley, Calif.; Edward M. Stolper of Winthrop...