Word: kappa
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...events and challenges within a conceptual framework. He is smart and dogged in sorting through information, but he has never been known for imaginative ideas, probing insights or creative brilliance. Forty years ago, as he walked with a friend across the Yale campus to be inducted into Phi Beta Kappa, Bush volunteered that he was not a real intellectual. He prides himself on being a practical man, a problem solver, a bit of an overachiever. Some friends say his most notable trait is his persistence. He had been running for President for 20 years...
Although the culprits--the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity--were never apprehended, the incident stamped an image on MIT that lingers to this day--pranksters too nerdy to field their own football team...
...less obsessed with competing than their teenage counterparts, who are apt to fret over grades and whether they have a date on Saturday night. An impressive 21% of the 443 graduates of Smith College's Ada Comstock Program, which enrolls women 22 and older, are holders of Phi Beta Kappa keys; 45% walk away with honors. Says Eleanor Rothman, director of the eleven-year-old program: "These women know what they are doing...
Knight, a Black woman who was once president ofHarvard's Phi Delta Kappa chapter, said Fox Treeshould have garnered the nomination because he wasnext in line. She said she had warned bothStephens and the members of the nominatingcommittee that "you might get reprecussions fromthis...
...Delta Kappa officials at the GSE said theywere surprised by the discrimination case becausethey had no problems dealing with Fox Tree in thepast. Some said he may have resorted to thediscrimination complaint simply because heexhausted other means of appeal...