Summer is convention season for Greek-Letter Organizations and it has been for more than a century. In the 1800s, conventions tended to take place during the academic year or over the Christmas holiday. While many GLOs have different names for … Continue reading → Share this: Facebook Twitt...
(2011). “Affection in Education”: Edward Carpenter, John Addington Symonds, and the politics of Greek love. Oxford Review of Education, 37(5), 683–698. Article Google Scholar Reichard, D. A. (2010). “We can’t hide and they are wrong”: The Society for Homosexual Freedom and ...
For most of the nineteenth century, there was very little in the way of a career structure in science in Britain. There were few universities, and therefore few professional posts to fill, and scholars concentrated on classic subjects, such as ancient Greek, rather than science. But by the ...
GREEK letter societiesWEB search enginesBLACK Lives Matter movementFRATERNAL organizationsPDF (Computer file format)ALTMETRICSAn editorial presents the history and background of the research journal "Oracle: The Research Journal of the Association of Fraternity/Sorority Advisors." The journal's ...
college campuses. Dozens of members of Interfraternity Council fraternities and Panhellenic Council sororities disaffiliated from their organizations following the rise of anAbolish Richmond Greek Lifemovement, which began in the beginning of July with the inception of an Instagram account of the same ...
Herodotus the Greek historian wrote about Queen Tomyris, from eastern Iran, whose tribe resisted Cyrus's plans for empire. When she heard that he was building bridges in her territory so his troops could move through it quickly, she asked him to stop. "Rule your own people, and try to ...
banks that violate them can be shut down by the Fed. They are explicit, written rules that banks must follow. The Fed also conducts supervision of the banks, examining their practices, evaluating their compliance with the letter and intent of the Fed's regulations, and taking enforcement ...
, antisemitic party in the recent parliamentary elections. The “Pillars of Gediminas” symbol in the center of the logo, while neutral in the context of various government functions, has come to assume a connotation of far-right extremism when employed by political groups and organizations....
The term “lesbian” is derived from the Greek island of Lesbos, associated with the poet Sappho, whose surviving works lyrically describe erotic love and attraction between women. Despite the use of the term “gay” as an umbrella term for gender and sexual minorities, the mid-to-late twenti...
“first,” from the Swahili phrasematunda ya kwanza, adding the seventh letter, an extraa, to make the word long enough to accommodate one letter for each of the seven children present at an early celebration. (The name Kwanzaa is not itself a Swahili word.) The concept of Kwanzaa draws...