Word: frat
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Parry is enthusiastic about setting up the frat, though it wasn’t his idea originally. Last month he received a phone call from a PKA recruiter, courting him to launch the fraternity at Harvard. Parry says Pike develops new chapters based on recommendations from other members across the country, and he was recommended by his friends at Southern Methodist University and Vanderbilt University. After contacting Parry and asking for further recommendations, Pike also contacted the Kappa Alpha Theta and Delta Gamma sororities on campus and asked members to suggest Harvard guys who qualified, in the words...
Some students are mystified as to why anyone would start another fraternity in light of the relative obscurity of the current frats, although others expressed conditional interest. Kyle A. Lehman ’05, whose father was a Pike at the University of Maryland, says he believes that “depending on the housing situation, [the frat] will provide social opportunity outside of house parties and give other options to many guys who are left standing outside final clubs...
Parry and others say the new frat is not a reaction against final club elitism...
This San Francisco hangout is an internationally renowned temple of tequila cult. It serves more than 200 brands of the Mexican drink--varieties derived from the juice of the spiky agave plant and far pricier than the sugarcane-diluted rotgut of college frat parties. Tommy's Blue Agave Club, the nation's largest tequila-tasting group, boasts connoisseurs from five continents among its 5,000 members. Julio gives seminars in France, Germany, Hong Kong and Singapore. And when Mexican distillers visit Tommy's, patrons ask for their autographs. "They get rock-star status," he said...
...with business news--treated it as ESPN treats sports, with conflict, a little jocularity, NFL-style graphics and rooting interests. Traditional, detached TV news tells you the news is interesting. Fox News tells you the news rocks. Thus the clubhouse, good-times atmosphere at Fox, from the towel-snapping, frat-house yuks of morning show Fox & Friends to the anchors who, after learning of Fox's ratings win, taunted CNN with the glee of a point guard who just sank a three...