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PRESSURES COULD PROMPT SORORITY MEMBERS TO QUIT
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Sorority -- a single word that brings to mind many thoughts to
many people including sex, hazing, conformity, drugs, eating
disorders, peer pressure and, above all, secret society.
Those who are not members of Greek life have very little to go by
when forming these opinions.
Some sources would ideally be from sisters themselves, but usually
the image we have established for these all-girl groups come from the
media, especially movies such as "Legally Blonde" and television
show...
Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles from HighBeam Research
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PRESSURES COULD PROMPT SORORITY MEMBERS TO QUIT
Roanoke Times & World News
; Sorority -- a single word that brings to mind many thoughts to many people including sex, hazing, conformity, drugs, eating disorders, peer pressure and, above all, secret society. Those who are not members of Greek life have very little to go by when forming these opinions. Some sources would
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COLLEGES EMBRACING A GREEK REVIVAL
The Boston Globe
; AMHERST As a freshman on the enormous flagship campus of the University of Massachusetts, Pam Melander was overwhelmed. The first person in her family to attend college, she felt so lost that she thought about dropping out or transferring to a smaller school. She was put off by the self-assurance
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Fraternity members drink more than non-frat men, survey finds. (Originated from Newport News Daily Press)
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
; WILLIAMSBURG, Va. _ The stereotype of partying, hangover-bound Greek students is an accurate one, according to a study showing fraternity-house residents drink nearly three times more booze than other male college students. Frat-house residents nationwide guzzle an average of 20 drinks a week,
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A Big Fat 1/2-inch format: HDCAM for sitcoms? For My Big Fat Greek Life it takes longer to edit all the extra footage, but you still save a day on each episode's production schedule. (High Def Watch).
Post
; BURBANK -- The challenge for the producers of CBS's My Big Fat Greek Life is to catch lightning in a bottle a second time. The original product, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, was a mega-hit, the largest grossing independent film ever, and was produced on a low, low budget by Hollywood standards. Now,
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Greeks not always focused on partying
St. Joseph News-Press
; Logan Galloway didn't want to join an "Animal House" his freshman year at Northwest Missouri State University, so he shopped around. The sophomore is now pledging Phi Delta Theta, a social fraternity on campus that wants to shed the image of fraternities as party- crazed organizations hell-bent on
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Fraternities On the Rocks.
Policy Review
; JEW ENDURING INSTITUTIONS -- and certainly no collegiate institutions -- are as quintessentially American as the Greek letter fraternities and sororities. It was in 1776, emblematically enough, that the first such society, Phi Beta Kappa, was founded at the College of William and Mary. Founded
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CTHE bows 'Greek Life' and 'King of Queens' on DVD.(DVD Watch)(Video Recording Review)
Video Store
; Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment Nov. 18 is releasing separate full-season DVD releases of CBS Television sitcoms My Big Fat Greek Life at $24.95 (prebook Oct. 23) and The King Of Queens: Season One at $34.95, (pre-book Oct. 16). Executive produced by Tom Hanks and his wife, Rita Wilson, Greek
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Icons a symbol of Greek life
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
; Icons a symbol of Greek life By JAMES C. HELICKE of the Journal Sentinel staff Wednesday, July 31, 2002 Istanbul, Turkey -- Pavlos Politis hunches over a 16th-century Orthodox icon of St. John the Baptist and uses a swab to clear away the corrosion and cracks that the centuries have brought.
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'My Big Fat Greek Life' pilot stretches same joke too thin
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
; 'My Big Fat Greek Life' pilot stretches same joke too thin By JOANNE WEINTRAUB Journal Sentinel television critic Tuesday, February 25, 2003 "My Big Fat Greek Life" is a big, broad comedy with one joke that it keeps repeating. And repeating. And repeating. Like "My Big Fat Greek Wedding," last
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Alcohol use in the Greek system: follow the leader? (college fraternities and sororities)
Journal of Studies on Alcohol
; Greek letter societies have existed on U.S. college campuses since the founding of the first university. These fraternities and sororities have continued to grow and flourish in our society to such an extent that it has been estimated that more than 725,000 U.S. college students were members of
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