Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...response to Jennifer Griffin's article entitled "Black Fraternities and Sororities: Maintaining an Identity or Being Separatist?", we, the members of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Incorporated, feel compelled to further enlighten your readers on the nature and aims of our organization. In particular, we strongly believe that Ms. Griffin's article acutely characterizes the misnomers which have accompanied us since the Fraternity's inception in 1911. Nevertheless, we think that her work will emerge a positive one for both the University and the Fraternity, for finally we are able to at least partially present our views and objectives. Thus...
...With respect to the predominance of Black members in our organization and others, we feel that low white membership is due not to discrimination on our part, but rather it is the product of a society in which minority organizations are not seen with the same prestige that is bestowed upon mainstream ones. Thus, many whites are aware of our organizations but feel no real desire to be a part of them. (It should be noted that our informationals are advertised and opened to all males in the collegiate community.) Further, it must also be recognized that "Black" Greek letter...
...Kappa Alpha Psi and many other predominantly Black Greeks do not belong to the MIT Interfraternal Council (IFC) because we feel that its heavy emphasis on issues of house behavior and alcohol policy are simply not applicable to our organizations, as we do not own houses or serve alcohol at our functions...
...feel great about today," the Bay Stategovernor said at a news conference in Boston...
...took the practiced ear of Richard Nixon to tell us that. Give him his due. He's got a feel for the pols, and he can sum them up with a brutal line or two. On Meet the Press a few weeks ago, Anchor Tom Brokaw asked if Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis, the leading Democratic presidential contender, was just "too dull to be an effective nominee." Nixon was ready, dark flash from the eyes. "Let me answer that question this way. I've often said that the best politics is poetry rather than prose. Jesse Jackson is a poet. Cuomo...