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...said, “Hey, Rex. These look like a pretty good deal. You should consider joining.” It seemed like reasonable advice. After all, my dad had been an Alpha Tau Omega in college and had enjoyed his fraternity days immensely. Coming from my background, joining an all-male social club seemed natural, and at the time, hardly objectionable.By the end of my freshman year, I felt that I had a pretty good handle on the final clubs. There were a couple of clubs I partied at fairly regularly, though none was the one I ended...
...eight imposing mansions that enshrine the mystique of the elite—admittedly debunked after meeting most of the members, but still somehow compelling every time I walk by. This world’s inhabitants and I share little to nothing in common—not gender, race, socioeconomic background, or unabashed self-entitlement, and certainly not a penchant for Nantucket Reds.But despite my dissimilar profile—and my lofty, if disingenuous, rejection of their elitism—I must secretly derive some satisfaction from their world. Otherwise, I’d be spending every Saturday night with...
...like your energy,” 12-term School Committee member Alfred B. Fantini said to Nolan. “And I love that consulting-analysis background...
...meeting were entirely new to Buddhism, most had prior exposure to the religion and were interested in forming community bonds with fellow Buddhists at Harvard. One attendee, Amy E. Heberle ’09 was surprised at how many students who came to the meeting had a Buddhist background. “I expected more people who didn’t know anything about Buddhism to be there,” she said. The group will continue to meet Monday evenings in the Mather Tranquility Room...
From its start, “Kalpanam” lived up to its “classical imaginations” subheading. Ravi Shankar’s sitar—a Hindustani traditional violin-like instrument—strummed in the background and combined beautifully with a fantastic red light splashed onto the stage, where Brandeis University students performed the opening “Tarana” dance. Wearing pastel pinks and blues and hair twisted into flower-accented French braids, the girls danced in the style of Bharatnatyam—an Indian classical and geometrically graceful dance genre that dates...