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This, at least, was the logic behind Theta Delta Chi (TDX)’s decision last week to send two of its representatives—one bearing roses—to Harvard’s three sororities in search of potential Harvard brothers...
...succeeds in his hopes to reignite TDX’s Crimson tradition—minus the house—the frat would be the fifth on campus and the second new Greek club to come to Harvard in the last two years. Though Delta Upsilon’s Harvard chapter withdrew its official frat status this year—the men now call themselves the Oak Club—Greek life apparently remains strong...
Vladi, a senior at the University of Florida, was lounging around at his Phi Gamma Delta fraternity house when he remembered the laundry he had left in the Laundromat overnight. His forgetfulness was about to land him a job. When he grabbed his clothes from the dryer top, the first thing he noticed among his socks and boxers was a black thong. "I was like, 'Well, this isn't my size!'" says Vladi, 22. Then he read the white lettering on the front: DO YOU HAVE WHAT IT TAKES TO BE THE NEXT AXE AMBASSADOR? "I said...
...Worker unrest is particularly rife in Guangdong, one of China's main industrial centers, where exports surged 24% to $190 billion?one-third of the national total?last year alone. Yet base assembly-line wages in the Pearl River Delta, the province's manufacturing belt, have been virtually frozen at about $80 per month for the past decade, according to a recent survey by the Ministry of Labor and Social Security. Factor in inflation over roughly the same period, and average pay in real terms has declined by as much as 30%. The reason: China's rise as a manufacturing...
...just as for oil and soybeans, the labor market is also subject to the rules of supply and demand?and the Pearl River Delta is facing a manpower shortage of 2 million workers, according to the Labor Ministry survey. Manufacturing capacity has expanded so rapidly in the past several years that the stream of migrants from the poor countryside is no longer large enough to replenish the labor pool. Rising agricultural incomes in recent years have started to keep many would-be migrant workers back on the farm...