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Never in my wildest college dreams did I think I would "go Greek," but as a junior I had the opportunity to join a truly unique fraternity. My fraternity, Phi Kappa Sigma, is one of the most diverse organizations on campus both in the politically correct and the real sense. We are white, black, Hispanic, Asian, Christian, Jew, Muslim, atheist, conservative, liberal and libertarian. We are residents of the Northeast, South, midwest, West, international students, immigrants and many-generational Americans...
Contrary to anecdotal stories, numerous studies have documented that women experience pain more acutely and more frequently than men, indicating that the sexes may detect and dampen pain differently. In a study of dental patients, women responded more favorably than men to a class of pain relievers known as kappa opioids, including pentazocine, suggesting that receptors for inhibiting pain may vary by sex. Moreover, women are less responsive than men to nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, such as ibuprofen...
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...
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...