Word: frats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unusually low number of MIT freshmen pledging fraternities this year may cause some of the school's 33 frat houses severe financial difficulties, the chairman of the fraternity governing board said last week...
...straight line? After all, as one of the oldest of all Wall Street cliches puts it, "Trees don't grow to the sky." Peter Furniss, a managing director at the brokerage firm of Smith Barney, Harris Upham, chooses a different metaphor. Says he: "It's like a college frat party. The music is loud, and everybody is having a wild time. But sooner or later, the cops are coming to bust up the party...
Members of the fraternity were surprised by the package and had no idea why it came, said sophomore frat member Robert Brown...
Lane said a similar incident occurred at Penn two years ago. A package of cocaine addressed to a different fraternity actually made it to the frat house. After discovering the drugs, the fraternity members called the police. The cocaine disappeared and has never been accounted for, Lane said...
John Polk is a shy college boy getting ready for a birthday present from his frat brothers--a night with a French Quarter prostitue. Drinking at the Blue Angel saloon to settle his nerves, he is intruded upon by Ashbe, a girl with horn-rimmed glasses and non-stop chitchat. The two misfits somehow hit it off and end up at Ashbe's unkempt apartment, where she serves Cheerios, marshmallows, and drinks with blue food-coloring. By the end of the night, they are dancing to the sweet sounds of New Orleans radio, very pleased in their shared oddness...