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Kuan sold the IDs to students at the Delta Tau Delta and Phi Kappa Theta fraternities on Commonwealth Ave. in Boston and the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity at MIT, McLaughlin said. He added that Kuan also distributed about 10 licenses on the Harvard campus and 10 in his hometown. Kuan charged $30 for each license, McLaughlin said...
...more elusive. Some have never been directly observed, and the others have only been spotted fleetingly in cosmic rays or high-energy particle accelerators. The second family consists of so-called "charmed" and "strange" quarks, muons and muon neutrinos. The third is made up of "top" and "bottom" quarks, tau particles and tau neutrinos. Last week's announcements do not preclude the possibility that other types of particles could be discovered, but they raise the odds against that happening, by Stanford's estimate, to better than...
...regents were responding to a series of obnoxious acts by white students. Last fall the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity staged a mock slave auction, complete with some pledges in blackface. More recently, white male students have trailed black female students, shouting, "I've never tried a nigger before." Some civil libertarians have complained, however, that the new rule violates constitutional guarantees of free speech, no matter how irresponsibly that right is exercised...
...event, which was held by Zeta Beta Tau, a primarily Jewish fraternity, pledges wore black face makeup and afro wigs and performed impersonations of Oprah Winfrey and the Jackson Five on stage. Students said that the Oprah impersonation had sexist implications because frat members pulled the pledge's arms back and forth saying "this is my girlfriend Oprah," hitting her and calling her "bitch," according to the Wisconsin Daily Cardinal...
Committee members said the case could prove invalid if the fraternity's lawyer is able to prove that Zeta Beta Tau does not qualify as a student organization because it did not register with the university this fall. The student disciplinary committee would then have no jurisdiction over the case...