Word: frat
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...professor at the University of Virginia once said he thought students came to UVA with the sole ambition of walking up and down Rugby Road--a kind of frat row--drunk, and with cups on their heads. At Harvard, there are those who are as proud of soberly donning their black "FCS" hats (Final Clubs Suck) as those who delight in sporting their crimson "H" hats. Other walk around wearing "X" hats, while a few wear "XTS" hats. Blake said it well, "Without Contraries is no progression." Harvard is a hundred competing parades with only two shared themes: direction...
...slept over at Dave's frat once last year and went with class with him in the morning. The women had complicated layers of makeup (9 a.m. is early, but one has to look good) and the men wore shorts and tank tops branded with their Greek letters (9 a.m. is cold, but one has to show full muscleage...
Turns out 14 Plympton St. was in less danger than I thought. But I wondered, what is it about the Harvard party scene that brings out the primal spirit in people? Is it that we don't have frat houses with big trenches to fill with beer? Is it that, in drunkenness, the neat divisions we draw in the day time blur and confuse us? I'm not sure. It reminds me of a scene I once saw on television: A man feigned injury on a New York City street. He laid there hours and none of the thousands...
Boston has plenty of bands with this vision, but Buffalo Tom, who appeared last week at Avalon, is among the best. With simple, irrestible rhythms and vocals pleading raspily for lost love, the band's universal sound drew together traditional city rivals into the mosh pit--frat boys bent on dancing to anything with a hard beat, and the flannel-and-nose-ring crowd, fiercely attentive to every inflection in singer Bill Janovitz's songs...
...first time, the College has barred students from living in independent frat houses in an effort to force the off-campus frats back under the auspices of the University...