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...Alpha Epsilon Pi, a new fraternity which just received its charter, isn't pursuing the Mt. Auburn St. house either, according to its president Scott A. Penner...
...tribe formerly known as the Catty People turned all gooey at the sight of Mike and his Promethean paws. Elisabeth wept, Jeff was about to puke like a rookie cop at a crime scene, and even Alicia managed to look concerned at her rival for head alpha male. Maybe it was the raw tragedy of it all, maybe it was the sight of Mike screaming for drugs like a woman in labor. ("Shots - drugs - pain - I can take it - I'll take whatever you give me!") Maybe it was just that they'd gotten really excited about the prospect...
When Scott A. Penner '01 helped found the Harvard chapter of Alpha Epsilon Pi (AEPi) two years ago, there were only 10 brothers...
Similarly, Harvard's two sororities, Delta Gamma (DG) and Kappa Alpha Theta (Theta), had little trouble finding women interested in rushing...
...this is about control, of course. While nicknames can just as easily be dispensed with affection as with malice, either way the practice is as stone alpha male as social interaction gets. Giving someone a name--any name--is a highly presumptuous act, assuming as it does the right to boil down someone's persona to a sole characteristic--and then legitimize it through repeated use. Of course, Bush has been shrewd in his choices--while sometimes bawdy, his nicknames are rarely pejorative--and he understands that for most people, a pet name suggests intimacy, a special relationship that...