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Linnea N. Meyer ’07, one of this fall’s Phi Beta Kappa inductees, offered words of hope yesterday for the first-years longing to be accepted into the prestigious national honor society. “My very first, and worst, grade at Harvard was a C-minus in a rhetoric course freshman year,” said Meyer, a Social Studies concentrator in Winthrop House. “It was the lowest grade I’d ever gotten in my whole life, but it really motivated me.” Meyer was among...
...Haven slammer. 1963: Widener Library’s pillars were disgraced with “Beat Harvard” spelled out in blue paint. The removal was costly, and the Elis won (boo), but the perpetrators were slapped with a suspension. 1982: MIT’s Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity rigged a large black weather balloon to emerge out of the field’s 45-yard line during the second quarter of the game. Affectionately named “The Blob,” said balloon was emblazoned with the school’s name...
...alumni tailgates are run through the athletic department and that, to his knowledge, the policies are the same as they were in 2004. “The spirit of The Game as it’s supposed to be has lost a lot,” said Stephen F. Kappa, a senior in Silliman College. Kappa, who has gone to the past three Games, said that The Game seemed less inclusive than previous years. Junior Ryan C. Fennerty, the social activities chair for Davenport College, said that confusion with tailgating rules and the fact that Yale’s Council...
Enterprising California winemakers are embracing them too. Don Sebastiani & Sons playfully named one of its brands Screw Kappa Napa. Randall Grahm, owner of Bonny Doon Vineyard, held a mock funeral for the cork in 2002; today 99% of his wines use screw caps. Fetzer and Stone Cellars by Beringer have gone so far as to put their single-serving screw-top wines in plastic bottles. Whitehall Lane goes a step further and uses elegant glass stoppers for its expensive bottlings...
Badaracco was a 2005 graduate of Northwestern University and attended Brookline High School. She was elected to Phi Beta Kappa at Northwestern, where she majored in International Relations and minored in Spanish, as well as participated in athletics such as field hockey and track, her father wrote in an e-mail...