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...advising and counseling committee: Samuel J. Klein ’04, Leslie A. Garbarino ’03 and Ellenor J. Honig...
Motherhood seems about a decade premature for Leslie A. Garbarino ’04. Still, this bubbly, curly-haired junior has been doing her share of nurturing—39 strapping young men on campus call her “Mom.” Garbarino holds the title of “Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE) Mom,” an honorary female position in every chapter of the all-male fraternity. Girls on the inside of Harvard’s fraternities have privileged access to the real character of the campus’ Greek life, which they...
...Garbarino says she was appointed as the SAE mom earlier in the year, when the fraternity was looking for a responsible girl to list on the chapter paperwork. She says she agreed to take on the title because she had a lot of friends who were members. Garbarino laughs at the idea that the role of the mom carries any serious responsibility. The closest that she comes to cooking, she says, is the mere thought of it. “I have to feel free to bake them cookies,” she says. “I feel free...
While being surrounded by the football players and rowers of SAE might ordinarily give rise to decidedly unmaternal feelings in most girls, Garbarino insists the only “instinct” she has towards her frat “sons” is a protective one. “You see them with girls and you want the girls to be nice to them,” she says...
...Harvard, the frat girls remain dedicated. That is, at least until graduation, retirement or incarceration, when the SAE mom must recruit her successor. Her contract with the fraternity specifically stipulates that if she has a run-in with the law, she is not released from this responsibility. Says Garbarino, “If I’m in jail, I guess I’ll be using my one phone call...