Word: lambda
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fraternity and sorority rushes. Last April the University of Oregon forbade the purchase of liquor by the school's 16 fraternities. In New Brunswick, N.J., last month Rutgers University students were indicted for aggravated hazing following the drink-related death in February of an 18-year-old Lambda Chi Alpha pledge. The university has since suspended the fraternity for at least five years...
...sorority to the roster of campus Greeks: Lambda Delta Lambda, a nine-member lesbian group that received official sanction from UCLA last month as the first official gay sorority in the nation. The UCLA decision allows the sorority to meet on campus -- Lambda Delta Lambda does not have the money for a residence -- and to apply for student funds, but requires the organization to be open to all women. The members plan to volunteer in local charities such as a gay-lesbian support group for high school students. Said Lambda's Krisi Burk: "We're trying to get away from...
...about half the states have already decided that AIDS falls within the scope of state-level disability statutes. Last week's decision from the high bench sent a complementary message. "The message is of common sense in a time of crisis," proclaimed Thomas Stoddard, executive director of the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, a gay-rights organization. "It is that people deserve individualized treatment, compassion and fairness...
Requests from university organizations are not uncommon. Loporchio said March 22nd will be Lambda Chi Alpha Day to commemorate the 75th anniversary of Boston University's fraternity...
Those two Harvard boys from the fraternal order of lambda sigma delta returned to the old campus last week for the first time since being ousted 20 years ago for involving students in their experiments with mind-altering drugs. Timothy Leary, 62, the pop promoter of LSD in the '60s, and Richard Alpert, 49, now known as Baba Ram Dass, showed up in a rented hall thick with students, many of whom were on mother's milk when the pair achieved their notoriety. Harvard, said Leary, is still "the main line of American transcendental thinking...