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Appropriately enough, current Sigma Chi Sweetheart Katharine S. Widland ’04 met her boyfriend, Ruben Marinelarena ’02-’03, when she bid on him at a date auction hosted by sorority Delta Gamma. Since their first date, Widland has been a fixture at fraternity events. She and Marinelarena even stayed at the Sigma Chi house in Daytona, Fla., last intersession. Jacquet said Widland’s selection began earlier this semester, when the chapter nominated several sweetheart candidates. At a meeting two weeks later, the brothers held a vote in the same...
DIED. PAUL ZINDEL, 66, chemistry teacher turned playwright who won a Pulitzer Prize for his semiautobiographical 1970 play, The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, the story of two siblings with an abusive mother; of cancer; in New York City...
...Gamma Lambda Mu is hoping to affiliate with Delta Lambda Phi, the national parent gay fraternity in Washington, which advises its chapters on how to offer peer counseling, AIDS education and access to online resources for gay men. But first Gamma Lambda Mu must win the approval of F.I.U.'S interfraternity council when it votes on the new fraternity's charter application. The school's president, Modesto Maidique, backs the move, as does the head of the interfraternity council. Yet starting up a gay frat at a school where most students are Latino, a culture in which the mystique...
That isolation, Gamma men say, makes having a gay fraternity--a surrogate family and support group in which their sexuality is accepted--even more essential. "I never had any gay friends growing up," says a shy F.I.U. student whose family rejected him after he came out. Gamma Lambda Mu, he says, "is a different and very positive experience for me." Out on Fraternity Row's Windmeyer suggests that such groups can serve as a defense against the kind of hate crime that struck Matthew Shepard, the gay University of Wyoming student who was beaten to death off campus...
...though, the 28 men of Gamma Lambda Mu have more immediate concerns. Gay frats still have to work to "give the impression that we are just another organization," says Casas. Even so, the Gamma men are aware of their differences and have a sense of humor about them. The slogan the group has printed on its T shirts reads LET'S GIVE 'EM SOMETHING TO TALK ABOUT...