Word: kappa
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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...
Emcees Sienna R. Owens '00 and Naeemah A. White-Peppers '99 hosted a show that included poetry readings, dramatic monologues, speeches, dance, comedy and musical performances by Harvard students and alumni, as well as others from the area. Two fraternities represented at area colleges, Kappa Alpha Psi and Phi Beta Sigma, also sent speakers...
...Beta Kappa bases its selections on GPA and faculty recommendations. No more than 10 percent of any class may receive the honor...
These 48 students were part of the second round of Phi Beta Kappa elections for the Class of 1999. Twenty-four students were elected in the first round this spring. All will officially become members of the chapter in a formal ceremony...
Goldstein is also one of Harvard's four Marshall Scholarship winners. The other three, Daniel J. Benjamin, C. Thomas Brown and Eric M. Nelson, were elected to Phi Beta Kappa in the first round. Of Harvard's Rhodes Scholarship winners, Navin Narayan of Adams House also received the Phi Beta Kappa honor in the first round...