Sentences with phrase «in a fraternity in»

I lived in a fraternity in college, and to survive in that environment you had to have a thick skin — it's something that has served me well as a writer.

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«The prospect of a downside correction in prices is lost on the speculative fraternity.

«I believe the sanctions had a positive impact on the culture of our fraternity,» he said in October 2016.

Fraternities and sororities are overseen by their national, or in DKE's case international, organization, which aims to keep chapters across the country in order and revoke privileges when issues arise.

In 2010, during the fraternity's «Hell Week,» the pledges marched blindfolded and shirtless, holding onto the shoulders of the men in front of theIn 2010, during the fraternity's «Hell Week,» the pledges marched blindfolded and shirtless, holding onto the shoulders of the men in front of thein front of them.

She pointed to a sorority - wide blacklist of Leo, another Yale fraternity after Leo was accused of hosting a «white girls only» Halloween party in 2015.

In 2011, the Delta Kappa Epsilon International Fraternity issued a blithe response to calls for reform after the «no means yes» chants.

Her texts for help, provided to Business Insider, came from a residence where brothers in Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity (or DKE, pronounced «Deke») lived.

It was launched in 2011 by Stanford University fraternity brothers Evan Spiegel, Bobby Murphy, and Reggie Brown.

A junior at Yale — we're calling her Beth in this story — attended DKEmas with a friend who was pledging the fraternity.

Weighing in at nearly 2,500 kilograms, the H1 guzzled diesel like a fraternity doing beer bongs on a Saturday night.

According to the Wainstein report, «Over the course of ten years, there were 729 enrollments in the paper classes by members of fraternities (and some sorority sisters).»

«Both fraternity members explained that they saw these classes as somewhat of a «loophole» in Chapel Hill's otherwise demanding curriculum, and they never conceived of these classes as being in any way tailored to athletes.

In fact, they recalled that a number of their non-athlete fraternity members took so many AFAM classes that they inadvertently ended up with AFAM minors by the time they graduated.»

While the public response to the report focused on the school's athletes, the report found that more than half of the students enrolled in the paper courses were nonathletes — many of them referred through the campus» fraternity system.

The report notes that the investigators «understand that the need to meet these requirements played a role in the decision among fraternity members to take these classes.»

It spread like wildfire in the fraternity and sorority community.

Some of the most powerful leaders in the business world pledged in fraternities.

A spokesman for Phi Kappa Psi, the fraternity named in the story, could not be reached immediately for comment.

Bushnell, wrote Kent, «made sure that the men around him agreed with his philosophy» and «held meetings in hot tubs, drank heavily, experimented with drugs... Sometimes Atari board meetings seemed more like fraternity parties than business meetings.»

It is an elite fraternity in this league... They'll all be picking their teammates or their boys.

He had just secured $ 1.5 million in venture capital when he decided to go to his fraternity's spring formal at a hotel in Las Vegas.

In 2013, having recently graduated from UCLA, the Huntington Beach, Calif., native and his then - roommate and fraternity brother, fellow Bruin David Mangold, revved up their first food truck.

Coulombe stayed on without a management contract for a decade; in 1987 he hired John Shields, a fraternity brother from his undergraduate days at Stanford, who was CEO until 2001.

In addition to his fraternity membership, McNerney also played hockey and baseball at Yale.

He also enrolled as a student at the University of Texas in Austin where he pledged the Alpha Phi Omega fraternity.

(Not so) Fun fact: In 2010, years after Immelt's time at Dartmouth and as president, the frat house burned down «due to a chimney issue,» according to the fraternity's blog.

«Rex was one of those guys who just gave you a great feeling,» said James Flodine, a fraternity brother of Tillerson's, in a February interview with the Dallas Morning News.

In his college days, Caterpillar CEO Douglas Oberhelman was a fraternity member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon — the nation's largest social college fraternity.

Chief Executive Officer Spiegel recently had to apologize for profanity - laced e-mails he sent when he organized Stanford University fraternity parties for Kappa Sigma in 2009 and 2010.

Reading a lot like what a college fraternity president might send out to his brothers, the email spelled out in sophomoric terms rules not only about drinking and what not to do with kegs but also about sex.

Snapchat, born in 2011 in a fraternity house, provides tools that let users easily draw on photos, to put a mustache on a selfie, for example.

How many people can say they traveled Europe in a choir, played divison I rugby, served as fraternity president, and started six companies before the age of 25?

In an interview with The New Yorker, Chan said that the couple met while waiting in line for the bathroom at a party hosted by Mr Zuckerberg's fraternity, Alpha Epsilon PIn an interview with The New Yorker, Chan said that the couple met while waiting in line for the bathroom at a party hosted by Mr Zuckerberg's fraternity, Alpha Epsilon Pin line for the bathroom at a party hosted by Mr Zuckerberg's fraternity, Alpha Epsilon Pi.

It's like the situation in Animal House, when one of the fraternity boys lent his friends his father's expensive car and they wrecked it.

However, Lawlor says the Florida Supreme Court in 2003 ruled that the shooting of a separate victim constituted a separate incident when reviewing the case of a fatal shooting at a fraternity graduation party involving multiple victims.

According to a September 2017 article in The Journal of Social History titled ««Banks of the People»: The Life and Death of the U.S. Postal Savings System,» the banking fraternity would maintain its enmity toward the government savings bank for the next 50 years.

Name: Chelsey Izegbu School: Loyola University New Orleans Year: Sophomore Major: Doubling in Economics & Finance Activities: Alpha Kappa Psi, Professional Business Fraternity, Loyola Economics Club, Loyola Society for Civic Engagement About Me: I am currently an Economics and Finance double major from Houston, Texas.

In my defense I had set up several businesses when I was younger and had been president of my fraternity (laugh if you want, I think this was the single best preparation for being an entrepreneur and a leader.)

When Zuckerberg came to Harvard in the fall of 2002, he joined a fraternity, one of those «lame» organizations that The Social Network so crudely mocks.

Many of these titans of industry are products of the fraternity culture: Billionaire hedge - fund manager Stephen Mandel, who chairs Dartmouth's board of trustees, was a brother in Psi Upsilon, the oldest fraternity on campus.

The platform of the Magnum Options is powered by SpotOption, a known name in the binary options trading fraternity.

The digital revolution currently underway in financial services — colloquially called FinTech — has raised some questions on the nimbleness and relevance of the banking fraternity in India.

He was also familiar with the Una Sancta movement, an effort to overcome confessional divisions through the renewal of faith among both German Protestants and Catholics, to establish «fraternity in Christ across all barriers.»

An atheist has no place in a Christian club, just as a Christian has no place in an atheist club, men have no place in sororities and women have no place in fraternities.

The pope insists, as part of his demand for truth, that the Church «has a public role over and above her charitable and educational activities: all the energy she brings to the advancement of humanity and of universal fraternity is manifested when she is able to operate in a climate of freedom.

The fact is any federal funding in the budget frees up money that Vandy can use elsewhere, like to fund a fraternity.

Vandy is saying that you can't kick people out once they have already joined your group BUT it's fine if you just don't let them in the first place (like Vandy can't tell them they have to let that guy into the fraternity from the beginning just like with any other group).

The explosion of charismatic, Pentecostal, and indigenous communities, especially in Africa, poses all kinds of problems, but here, too, the observation applies that «the most significant — and most gratifying — result of ecumenism over the past few decades is not the various documents [of agreements and convergences] but the recovery of fraternity, the fact that we have rediscovered that we are brothers and sisters in Christ.»

Moving in a reverse pyramid from the specific to the more abstract, they decried the fraternity system, privilege (the «money - fraternity complex»), and the rape culture of the South, including Thomas Jefferson for his relations with Sally Hemings.