Word: phi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...result in death, of course, but if the practice is not always dangerous, it is often demeaning. At Michigan State University hazing was banned by 1950, but it remains an integral part of initiation rites at several fraternities. Senior Steve Ryckman lost interest in joining the Delta Sigma Phi house last year after he developed a burn on his nose from being forced to rub it along a carpet. "They wanted to see how much they could humiliate you," he recalls. "It was degrading." On the Champaign-Urbana campus of the University of Illinois, nearly two-thirds...
...across the nation, TIME correspondents noted that while some felt apologetic about abstaining, many were confident that they had taken the only proper action. Los Angeles Attorney Linda Abrams, 26, has been pasting stickers on her private letters that read: DON'T VOTE-IT ONLY ENCOURAGES THEM. A Phi Beta Kappa from U.C.L.A., Linda said, "The only way I would vote now would be if there were four categories: Democrat, Republican, No Preference and Abolish This Office...
Virtually all of his life, Watson has been the peer to watch. The son of a Navy enlisted man, Watson went from high school at Pine Bluff, Ark., to Vanderbilt University, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1960. He joined the Marines the same year. A slender man of 150 Ibs., Watson had remarkable stamina: He set two permanent obstacle-course records at the Quantico base, where he became an officer. He bucked for the Marines' most elite outfit, the First Force Reconnaissance company, and had to survive a list of training schools that were excruciating even...
...PHI BETA KAPPA--The oldest of exclusive organizations at Harvard has not always been the inactive body of top-notch students that it now is. Imported to Harvard from William and Mary in 1781, Phi Beta Kappa was originally an awesome secret society with rituals like those of the ancient Mayans. Along with shocking spiritual rites, the society acquired a touch of the commercial during the early 1920s. A complete display of post cards, novelties and souvenirs were sold at the cigar counter in the clubhouse, and during the baseball season, scores were posted daily in the luxurious club rooms...
...ticket out of our neighborhood, so we all dreamed of being Teresa Brewer, who had made it. I did go to college. Then my father sent me an ad from a Las Vegas club for chorus girls. You had to be at least 5 ft. 7 and have a Phi Beta Kappa key [the group was called the Hi Phi Betas]. By that time I had become thoroughly convinced that you weren't supposed to be a leader, you were supposed to marry one. I learned to Uncle Tom, to giggle and laugh and say, "How clever...