Word: lambda
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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James Callahan, an 18-year-old Rutgers University student, dies after consuming 24 ounces of hard liquor in less than an hour as part of a pledging ritual at the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity, according to an April 26 article in The Record. A separate article reported on Aug. 28 that this incident prompted a five-year shutdown of his fraternity...
Matthew P. Garofalo, a first-year at the University of Iowa, is found dead in his fraternity house. A pledge to the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity, Garofalo dies after inhaling his own vomit following a night of drinking activities. His blood alcohol level was 0.188. Following Garofalo's death, a four-month alcohol ban was imposed by the University on Greek organizations, and the campus chapter of Lambda Chi Alpha was suspended, said The Chronicle of Higher Education in Sept...
...find the suggestion that homosexuality is something that can be cured a little offensive," said Mark R. Penney, a second-year law student and treasurer of LAMBDA, the queer students organization...
...LAMBDA has not decided whether it will host an alternative event but is continuing with its own plans for its annual Coming Out Day events, Penney said...
According to a news release from the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation, Ptashne "pioneered the molecular basis of gene regulation and isolated the molecule called a 'lambda repressor' which functions as a switch turning gene expression...