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Article: Chuck and his brothers. (college fraternities)
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- The Washington Monthly
- Article date:
- November 1, 1988
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I've never gotten over the fact that Chuck didn't tell me he planned to join a frat. After all, we had grown up together, spending our summers clamming in open skiffs on Long Island's Great South Bay. We were childhood friends. It's the kind of decision friends typically sweat through together.
Chuck enrolled at Alfred University in 1978 during my junior year, after taking time off to work and travel, In the first weeks of school, we fell into the habit of meeting in the union pub. We would stand at the end of the bar and talk about friends back home, the boats, ale price of clams. But my thoughts were a long way from the bay and outboard motor oil. And ...