Word: phi
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Recounting his personal experience, Cummings emphasized the importance of education and leadership in bringing about change. He told the audience how he progressed from being a child of sharecroppers and special education designee, to a Phi Beta Kappa college graduate and a member of Congress...
...woman, she needs a little bit more than that on weekends. While she has been to one party at Harvard, she was frustrated by how crowded the room was and how she had to know someone to be allowed inside. Instead, she spends most of her time at Chi Phi, one of the fraternities at MIT, where she has recently started dating one of the brothers. Instead of staying on campus, she spends this Friday night at Chi Phi’s stately house in Back Bay, built by the same architect who designed the West Wing of the White...
...this posturing, the men of Chi Phi never show that they have anything less than complete respect for Pelliccia. The brothers treat her as a friend to all. They seem to recognize that the stereotypes are only stereotypes...
...brothers of Chi Phi may give Pelliccia complete respect, but other fraternities may treat their Wellesley guests as less than ladies...
...they do every week, the 90 members of the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity at Oregon State University file into their dining hall for a very different kind of frat party. The rows of scrubbed and pressed young men sit down to eat under the watchful eye of the brother who is acting as manners chair. No swearing is permitted. Napkins on laps are required. Small bites are urged instead of gulps. Scofflaws must do penalty push-ups or pay a fine into the piggy bank in the middle of each table...