Word: kappa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dunster House resident Garrison plans to spend two years studying medieval history and literature. Elected to the Phi Beta Kappa society in her junior year, Garrison has been involved in several public service projects including tutoring exconvicts and supervising a children's writing center...
...Diversity of groups: Leverett is a unique mix of people. We have 10 intercollegiate captains. We also have the most Phi Beta Kappa seniors. The Undergraduate Council chairman, former HSA president, and former band manager are a few of the many busy people in Leverett. Leverett is not apathetic; rather, we have a large number of people who are extremely busy with sports, jobs, etc. Student response to the heating grates incident disproves the notion of apathy...
...laissez-faire housing makes your stomache turn, here's another fair solution: housing based on merit. When Phi Beta Kappa keys or summa and magna degrees are awarded, few people question how deserving the recipients are. If academic achievement and distinction are the currency of the Harvard community, why not let this success principle determine the housing system...
Apparently not. Last October Sherri Clark, an 18-year-old sorority pledge, died at a party sponsored by two sororities when after drinking heavily, she fell from a bridge. And in Texas, Kappa Alpha Rusty Combes, 26, won a $21 million out- of-court settlement for injuries sustained in an auto accident after a fraternity blowout. Along with the plain human tragedy, notes Cincinnati Attorney Robert Manley, such disasters have "the potential for bankrupting every fraternity in the country." The societies know it, and the bottom line of ruinous insurance payouts and premiums has pushed them to clean up their...
...University of Colorado's Sigma Phi Epsilon house, which prides itself a membership of jocks and other square-shouldered types, admits that "a lot of guys cry." Buckley Gillock of Virginia speaks for generations of Greeks when he describes why he cares so deeply about being a Kappa Alpha: "It's meant making the best friends I've had so far in my life, and probably the best friends I'll ever have...