Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Dartboard urges that the powers-that-be at Lowell House forego other repairs and focus all their energy on installing the FroYo machine. Frozen yogurt is, arguably, nature's most perfectly synthetic food. When a meal is less than appetizing, or when one is in a rush, the FroYo cone beckons from the corner, offering cool refreshment with only a modicum of saturated fat. Students dwelling in other-FroYo-blessed-houses have been known to live on the dessert alone for days at a time...
Shortly after 5 a.m., Teri Majewski marches purposefully into Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center in Chicago. Strongly built and fit looking, the 34-year-old mother of two young children seems too healthy to be in a hospital. But she checks in at the day-surgery department and is summoned to an examining room, from which she emerges a few minutes later in a baggy blue hospital gown and the inevitable plastic bracelet. Suddenly, she looks vulnerable. This morning Majewski is scheduled to undergo a bone-marrow harvest, in which doctors will remove about a quart...
...fraternities at the University of Pittsburgh are suspended and fall "rush" was canceled in response to several hazing incidents. One first-year pledge for Phi Gamma Delta had to be hospitalized after members forced him to drink shots of whiskey, reported a July 13 article in The Chronicle of Higher Education. A chair of one of the suspended fraternities, Sigma Chi, commented that fraternities should get back to "friendship, justice and learning...
...took over the sourcebook stockroom this summer from the Science Center management, say the lines have not been longer and claim the forms are necessary to comply with copyright law. According to HPPS Director James Gill, HPPS did extend its hours and hire five temporary employees to accommodate the rush...
...closest things are a couple of minor events during rush and then [first-years] are carted to social occasions," said recent MIT graduate Adrian Banard...