Word: phi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...overriding "syndrome" that winning is everything. This, harrumphed Howard, was all the fault of sportswriters. "Before we ever televised a game, the press did it. Let's put the blame where it belongs." The only thing wrong with telecasters, as far as the New York University Phi Beta Kappa could see, was that ex-jock commentators on networks other than ABC don't talk too good. They "consider it a monumental task to utter a simple declarative sentence," complained Howard. Was the statue of the Spirit of Justice behind Cosell throwing her arms up to signal unsportsmanlike conduct...
...Nope," says Pell. "The only guy I ran into who was talking politics was a fellow who sat next to me in the sauna." What did he say? "He said Phi Crane is really rollin'." Anything more? "That...
...Afro-American Society and Alpha Phi Alpha, the only black fraternity at Dartmouth, requested that the Faculty Council cancel all classes after 10 a.m. today so that those organizations could sponsor a symposium on racial issues at the college...
...Afro-American Society and Alpha Phi Alpha, responding to two race-related incidents that sparked two rallies in under a week, submitted a set of fourteen demands to the college calling for across-the-board recognition of minority issues and concerns. The demands include...
Syracuse U. was an intellectual's academe, recalls Novelist Joyce Carol Gates ('60), but the sorority system, well, that was an intellectual's animal house. Reminiscing in the Paris Review, Alumna Gates speaks with horror of her days as a Phi Mu: "The asininity of 'secret ceremonies'; the moronic emphasis upon 'activities' totally unrelated to-in fact antithetical to-intellectual exploration." There was also "the aping of the worst American traits-boosterism, Godfearing-ism, smug ignorance, a craven worship of conformity." Grist for the Gates mill? Never. "To even care about such adolescent...