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Harvard's chapter of Phi Beta Kappa Society, Alpha Iota, last week announced the names of the 48 seniors and advanced-standing juniors it has elected...
...even more interesting in Orange County, nestled between Los Angeles and San Diego, where I live. Richard Nixon was born in Yorba Linda in 1913. Bob Dornan prevailed in one Congressional race after another until Loretta Sanchez thankfully ousted him from office. Community members founded a John Birch Society chapter there to weed out the Communists that had infiltrated the orange groves. The orange groves have since been replaced by Spanish-style roofs and strip malls. The people who shop at these pseudo-malls have an uncanny predilection for really, really, really tight clothes that bare a lot of skin...
...Seattle led by 900 Boeing machinists, whose employer is one of the world's top exporters. Union delegations representing everyone from teachers to teamsters are flocking in from 25 states and 143 nations. Dockworkers plan to shut down the port. Even the Wobblies are roused. The Puget Sound chapter of Industrial Workers of the World is orchestrating a student walkout. "In the early '80s, we gave up wages and benefits to be more globally competitive," says David Reid, 42, who nonetheless lost his job as a crane driver at Kaiser Aluminum. He has taken a course in civil disobedience...
King said alumni might choose to appeal the Institute's decision to Dean of Student Rosalind H. Williams. Unless the fraternity is allowed to recruit freshmen next year, it will be "very difficult" for the MIT chapter to reestablish itself, he said...
...addition to housing Quest students and staff, Harvard has offered a number of resources to the program. Dari Shalon, director of the Harvard Center for Genomics Research, serves as president of the newly founded Harvard Quest chapter...