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...hush falls over the carpeted upstairs hallways and regal, mahogany-trimmed smoking rooms. No one is gatoring to "Louie Louie" under the 25-ft. dinner table or filling water balloons on the roof. If you plan to remain at MIT for any length of time as a student, frat brother or not, you must do some serious "tooling...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Saturday Night The Brothers Don't Do No Tooling | 10/24/1980 | See Source »

...tool on a Friday afternoon or evening." Dave now dates "without worrying about whether she and I match up intellectually. I just don't seem to want to go to art museums or the symphony anymore when I go out." He adds, "I'm not sure if the frat itself doesn't have something to do with...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Saturday Night The Brothers Don't Do No Tooling | 10/24/1980 | See Source »

...Simmons and Wellesley, upholding a symbiotic relationship between the three schools that has existed as long as most House alumni can remember. Everyone talks about THE stat: 50 per cent of all Simmons women marry MIT men. Even if it is an exaggeration, and most insist it is, MIT frat members are prone to long-standing romances with the women from Brookline Avenue, and it is not at all unusual to hear nuptials discussed over milk and cookies...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Saturday Night The Brothers Don't Do No Tooling | 10/24/1980 | See Source »

...another. Alcohol is not so much a pastime here as an obsession. It fuels frat row and on the several big weekends of the year, transforms Dartmouth College from school to oxymoron. "Sometimes we win, Sometimes we lose," one senior said philosophically. As if on cue, his brother ('78) chimed in, "But we're always drunk...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Harvard, Green Set for Battle of New Hampshire | 10/18/1980 | See Source »

...ballads, always a group specialty, floated free and easy. Songs like The Long Run and The Sad Cafe seemed to sink right into your memory. The current hit single Heartache Tonight, or In the City, a hard dose of metropolitan late nights, or the ironic frat-house rocker The Greeks Don't Want No Freaks sounded rambunctious in a way that is new for the group...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Monster Season | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

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