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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...perverse way, I probably wanted attention or sympathy. I probably just wanted someone to feel badly for me. Look at you--you think your Expos paper is hard. Well, my father is in a hospital right now, getting gamma rays sprayed through him every day with a last hope that they will kill his cancer. All I could think about is what I would miss if he died. I lay in bed the other night thinking what would happen to his rows of Docksiders in the closet. He has a system. Fancy clean Docksiders for dinner parties, medium-flavored Docksiders...

Author: By Frances G. Tilney, | Title: COFFEE AND POP | 4/22/1999 | See Source »

Penn administrators announced the ban four days after Michael Tobin fell to his death on an outside stairwell at the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity after drinking heavily at a party there. Tobin, who graduated in 1994, was a member of that fraternity...

Author: By David S. Stolzar, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Penn Tries To Solve Alcohol Problems | 4/7/1999 | See Source »

...intent was clear: to show support for the[Phi Gamma Delta] brothers' loss. The atmospherewas very solemn," Metzl said. "They held theirfrustration [with the ban] for another time...

Author: By David S. Stolzar, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Penn Tries To Solve Alcohol Problems | 4/7/1999 | See Source »

Prosecutors charged the entire Phi Gamma Deltafraternity chapter at which Krueger was a pledgewith manslaughter but did not hold thefraternity's officers responsible. The fraternitydisbanded to avoid prosecution...

Author: By Victoria C. Hallett, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Clubs Limit Guests to Curb Risks | 3/1/1999 | See Source »

Thirteen years ago, on a dismal Spring day, I received the crushing news that I would never become a sorority girl. Not a perfectly manicured Kappa Kappa Gamma nor a sporty Sigma Kappa; nor even a borderline-cool Kappa Alpha Theta. A shy freshman at Dartmouth College, I had been rejected by those vaunted sisterhoods in the first round of pledge-season cuts. Was it my clothes? Did I say something wrong? Now that I had officially been deemed an outcast like Hester Prynne, I sulked in my dorm room for days, convinced my social life was over before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Growing Up at Dartmouth | 3/1/1999 | See Source »

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