Word: phi
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...largest event, search committee chair Robert G. Stone Jr. '45 and search committee member James R. Houghton '58 met with about 15 members of the Phi Beta Kappa academic honor society on Friday morning...
...Friday morning, search committee member Herbert S. "Pug" Winokur Jr. '64-'65 met with about six members of the Graduate Student Council down the hall from the Phi Beta Kappa breakfast at the Faculty Club...
...felt that they were very receptive and were genuinely interested in what we had to say," said Dorothy Weiss '01, who sat next to Stone at the Phi Beta Kappa breakfast. "They responded well, and we definitely had the impression that they were being very thorough...
...most remarkable statistics in the Kaiser report showed large shifts in the desires of parents in the last two decades. A similar survey done in 1981 by the Gallup Organization, on behalf of the Phi Delta Kappa association of professional educators, showed 84 percent believed high schools should teach about sexually transmitted diseases. This figure jumped to 98 percent in the Kaiser report...
Certainly, the group at greatest fault is Phi Gamma Delta, the fraternity Krueger was rushing at the time of his death. But MIT's "hands-off" attitude toward its fraternities and social clubs is also to blame. Universities should be willing to subject these groups to greater scrutiny, particularly when they are suspected of questionable or dangerous practices. Indeed, Krueger is actually the second student this decade to die at a Phi Gamma Delta party: In 1993, over-intoxication caused Jeff Knoll to fall three stories to his death at a party thrown by the fraternity's University of Nebraska...