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...plucked, these students embark for far-away tropical beaches to live a life outside of their own—for a week. They will drink by the handle (seriously damage their bodies), compete in wet T-shirt contests (exploit their sexuality) and become people who they are not (frat boys and sorority girls from state schools). Best yet is that these Spring Break revelers can return to campus the following week slighter tanner and perhaps a bit less healthy than when they left but for the most part able to carry on with their routine Harvard persona...
...Gene do it in pictures? He could so he did, in "On the Town," "American in Paris" and "Singin? in the Rain." These big climactic numbers didn?t always fit the tone of the story that preceded them; it was like serving Cristal at the end of a frat-house toga party. Or, as Wollen says: "They were like little islands within the rest of the film. But they were very important to him because it was a way of showing the breadth and variety of the forms of dance." Kelly finally did a whole movie in the serioso mode...
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...
...what door? No fraternity at Harvard currently has a house to call home. Along with its own fundraising efforts, the undergraduate chapter might be able to reap the benefits of Harvard’s extensive alumni network in order to attain something many think impossible: a frat house in the exclusive area around Harvard Square...