Word: excepts
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Nationally-based or not, fraternities and sororities will never achieve official recognition on campus. University-sanctioned organizations must be open to all except when membership depends on merit. No student can be prohibited from joining the Asian American Association or the Harvard-Radcliffe Black Students Association, yet students can be excluded from fraternities and sororities at the whim of the other members...
...find one of L.A.'s finest snapping handcuffs on him. The police did not press charges, and the officer handed Neal over to a campus security guard, who had to drive him home at 5 a.m. Today, the young man has no remorse over anything about the evening -- except the '70s-style disco clothes he was wearing. "I was dressed like a complete moron," Neal recalls. "I wasn't really embarrassed about the rest...
Friday Night at Hodges' Cafe, written and illustrated by Tim Egan (Houghton Mifflin; $14.95), is just what a funny book for little kids ought to be: silly. Hodges, an elephant, runs a cafe that would be fairly normal, except that his crazy pet duck causes a lot of trouble. Things get out of control when three tough tigers show up (ignoring the no tigers sign) and decide that roast duck would be just dandy. Hodges whaps the biggest tiger with a squishy souffle, and the duck dives into a large raspberry tart to hide. Alas, his back end sticks...
With the obsolescence of the No.2 pencil, one of this nation's major industries will certainly collapse. Graphite production will disappear except for the minuscule amounts needed for lock lubricants. Lumber yards will fall silent as thousands of glistening yellow and blue No.2 pencils with their red rubber erasers sit idly on stationers' shelves...
...Except that the we-will-be-champions attitude became the mantra of my high school class. When we were freshmen, Asa played light minutes as the sixth man on the team, while Mark Mulvey and a forward named Kevin LaPierre were on the varsity roster but saw mostly jay-vee action. Three more of my classmates were full-time members of the jay-vee squad. I was the freshman squad's scorekeeper...