Word: frats
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...game of the privileged and protected, played at �lite prep schools and colleges and at public schools located mostly in wealthy areas. A favorite slogan at Duke: "There's only one fraternity on campus--LAX [the nickname for lacrosse]." Fifteen members of the team have committed prior, mostly frat-jock infractions, ranging from public urination to noise violations...
...Beastie Boys—the wild dudes from “Sabotage,” the greatest music video of all time, and frat-boy anthem “You Gotta Fight For Your Right to Party”—are classy activists for a free Tibet, in long-term relationships, and producing progressively less relevant material at a progressively slower clip...
...founding father of Pi Kappa Phi at Cornell University, I was happy to learn from your article on Sigma Phi Epsilon's Balanced Man Program [Feb. 20] that other fraternities are taking steps to positively redefine their organizations. At Pi Kapp we strive to reform stereotypical frat life. Since our refounding two years ago, we have developed a strict no-hazing policy, maintaining that you can't build a man up by breaking him down. Pi Kappa Phi has its own philanthropy, Push America, an organization serving people with disabilities through fund raising, volunteering and empathy. We promote growth internally...
...tendency to treat Wellesley students as less than women is common to male college students across Boston, most horror stories or awkward anecdotes concern MIT, prompting the creation of a facebook group called “For Better or Worse...I’ve Hooked Up With an MIT Frat Boy.” Wellesley’s close ties with MIT, ties which traditionally had been with Harvard, may be the cause of this...
...little backup. When the crowd was asked to choose the winning band through a show of applause, the Northeastern mob easily overwhelmed the competition. Blanks. hardly stood a chance of winning.After the show, Le-Khac characterized the band as being above the event’s frat-boy nonsense. “It was ridiculous,” he says. “It was fun to be a part of, but none of us were taking it that seriously. A fifteen minute set played in conjunction with a burrito-eating contest isn’t an ideal arena...