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...Church of the Nativity, one of the world's oldest working churches, has never been an especially peaceful place. The holy men who run it--Greek Orthodox, Armenian Orthodox and Roman Catholic clerics--bicker over who gets to clean which piece of sacred wall, who can walk in which aisle. The theft in 1847 of the silver star that was meant to mark the precise place where Jesus was born is thought to have helped start the Crimean War. Seized and besieged by a host of armies over the centuries, the church has even inspired bickering among scholars, who argue...
With the addition of a new undergraduate residence hall this fall, MIT will also house almost all of its just under 5,000 undergraduates in either dormitories or Greek life housing, said Karen Nilsson, director of housing...
...recent years, Greek groups have experienced a surge of popularity. Sigma Chi started the wave when four students formed a colony in 1989. After they maintained an active and interested group for a few years, the national fraternity granted the Harvard students a charter to become the Kappa Eta chapter...
...such a flourishing fraternity, but over the next few years, Sigma Chi became a successful campus presence, both socially and in the community. They began to sponsor the annual Miracle Jam, an a cappella concert to benefit the Children’s Miracle Network, and helped support the fledgling Greek community on campus by holding events with other Harvard fraternities and sororities. Kappa Alpha Theta and Delta Gamma, the two largest sororities on campus, both started with the support of Sigma Chi and used the house for their chapter meetings as well...
...Junior League of they City of New York, had a long history with The Chapin School, her alma mater. Ma and Chapin classmate Catherine K. Gyllerstrom ’05 also defy debutante myths in that neither one is the stereotypical WASP. While Ma is half-Asian, Gyllerstrom is Greek and Swedish. However, Gyllerstrom was born into the debutante tradition, though not in the conventional sense. Gyllerstrom’s mother represented Greece at the International Ball, which is held every year in New York City. This Christmas, Gyllerstrom will also be presented under the Greek flag at the same...