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Fifty guys can’t fit into a dorm room. Sigma Chi knows. They’ve tried...
Until a little over a year ago, Sigma Chi and Pi Eta were partners, hoping to continue the tradition of non-final club social life at Harvard. Their relationship soured when Pi Eta decided it was time to sell the house. Sigma Chi filed a suit against Pi Eta, Pi Eta filed a countersuit against Sigma Chi, and now the only date in their future seems to be the one in court...
...explains in an 1992 autobiographical essay entitled “Revolution Through Restoration.” A few years later, while a first-year student at the University of Florida in Gainesville, McKean became a member of the 14th Street Church of Christ at the invitation of a Sigma Chi fraternity brother. Soon active in the church’s campus ministry, he was baptized that spring...
...above the average—is a guaranteed “A.” Assuming that scores on an exam are normally distributed, making the “sigma” means doing better than roughly 85 percent of the class. Students who miss the average by a sigma also know that 85 percent of the class did better than they did. If the scores on a test are clustered together near the mean, the sigma can be small. Missing one question on a large exam can be the difference between getting the sigma or missing the mean. Some...
...minus. One standard deviation above the average should earn a student a B-plus. Only those truly exceptional students—those rare double-“sigmas”—should be awarded an A-minus. Put the A out of reach, and most of the sigma fiends will mellow out. Harvard students have spent their whole lives being perfect. If there is anything this school should teach them, it’s that they...