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...guests, we want the house to be primarily for the students," says Sean Palfrey, first-year master of Adams. The family room, for the extended Adams House family, holds a welcoming wooden table for weekly dinner talks with members of the senior common room. In addition to ping-pong and pool tables and a TV room, the basement contains a theater prop shop stocked with tools and open to students. Palfrey's favorite parts of the house are the intricate closets, packed with shelves and delicate woodwork, and the gorgeous and gigantic kitchen. But the house's best-kept secret...
...Ping pong and badminton. Both require agility, racquets and of course hand-eye coordination. So how does a would-be player choose between the two? Some of the differences are obvious--table vs. ground for instance. But beneath the glamorous veneer, lie the nuanced subtleties that set the two racquet sports apart. It's time for a little head-to-head action between the two club sports...
...name of the game is beer pong, which features two players, each trying to hit a ping pong ball into his opponentis cup. If a ball lands in the beer, the loser has to chug as fast as humanly possible. Generally, once a player starts drinking, his coordination suffers all the more, and he just keeps right on losing. But Brinton actually gets better as play continues...
...Brintonis choice to engage in iSprite pongi rather than beer pong is strictly a matter of principle. A Sigma Chi fraternity brother and president of the Harvard Republican Club, Brinton is Mormon, a religion that forbids drinking alcohol or caffeine. So Sprite is pretty much all thatis kosher. When asked whether that gives him an unfair leg up on his adversaries, Brinton replies, iOf course it does. It does give me an advantage. Itis kind of cool.i...
...Sigma Chi does not conform to the stereotype of fraternities as little more than venues for drunken revelry, Brinton points out. The organization isnit about drinking, he declares-itis about istrong bonds of true friendship and brotherhood.i Asked about his take on the Sprite pong situation, Sigma Chi brother Michael G. Housman e02 answers, iIim proud of him for not succumbing to peer pressure. I donit think it hinders his being part of the group...itis about building brotherhood, whether or not he wants to drink.i...