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Black fraternities are also getting involved. In Maryland the Howard County alumni chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha runs a mentoring program for high school males, helping boost their grades and inspiring them to apply to college. Says program head David Barrett: "So many of our boys are in prison. The ones in school--they're under tremendous pressure from their peers not to excel academically. We want to show them that learning...
...Black fraternities are also getting involved. In Maryland the Howard County alumni chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha runs a mentoring program for high school males, helping boost their grades and inspiring them to apply to college. Says program head David Barrett: "So many of our boys are in prison. The ones in school - they're under tremendous pressure from their peers not to excel academically. We want to show them that learning...
Harvard's chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, Alpha Iota, announced the names of the 48 new elected members last week...
Founded in 1781, Alpha Iota is the oldest continuously operating Phi Beta Kappa Chapter in America...
...days before, TIME had reported that the Gore campaign was paying gender theorist Naomi Wolf $15,000 a month to provide the Vice President with everything from wardrobe tips to big-picture theories of the race--specifically, that Gore must challenge Clinton if he was to become the "alpha male" in the presidential contest. The revelation that the Vice President harbored a feminism expert on his staff gave the late-night joke writers a month of material and sent the Gore operation into a deep, dark funk...