{"id":31,"date":"2009-06-05T13:30:07","date_gmt":"2009-06-05T18:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/scref\/?p=31"},"modified":"2009-06-05T13:37:24","modified_gmt":"2009-06-05T18:37:24","slug":"frats-galore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/scref\/2009\/06\/05\/frats-galore\/","title":{"rendered":"Frats Galore!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-35\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/scref\/files\/2009\/06\/dscn5011-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"An Urbana-Champaign Frat\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/scref\/files\/2009\/06\/dscn5011-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/scref\/files\/2009\/06\/dscn5011-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nPerhaps it is all of my time spent at Harvard, where they don&#8217;t officially exist, but I find the ubiquity of fraternities here overwhelming. Is everyone in a frat at Urbana-Champaign? If I look out the door closest to my room, without actually going outside, I can see three different fraternity houses (<a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/elavus\/UrbanaChampaign#5343668248153752146\">left<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/elavus\/UrbanaChampaign#5343668253402345618\">straight<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/elavus\/UrbanaChampaign#5343668435950671522\">slightly right<\/a>). And that of course does not include the back of Alpha Kappa Lambda which is always viewable out my cell, I mean room window.<\/p>\n<p>The variety of care in maintaining them is also astonishing.\u00a0 Some, though majestic looking, clearly should be <a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/elavus\/UrbanaChampaign#5343668226098753954\">cared for more<\/a> (note the broken window). For others, the building itself looks fine, but the surrounding environment could use improvement, including <a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/elavus\/UrbanaChampaign#5343668412852968402\">signs<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/elavus\/UrbanaChampaign#5343668286866271330\">lawns<\/a>. Then there are those that even have <a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/elavus\/UrbanaChampaign#5343668280424026114\">advertising built right in<\/a>. If I had more time right now, I might make a pithy comparison between these frats and rare books, including clever examples of how the above descriptions could be used also for rare books and collections&#8230; but I&#8217;ll leave that to you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps it is all of my time spent at Harvard, where they don&#8217;t officially exist, but I find the ubiquity of fraternities here overwhelming. Is everyone in a frat at Urbana-Champaign? If I look out the door closest to my room, without actually going outside, I can see three different fraternity houses (left, straight, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2032,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1290],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/scref\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/scref\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/scref\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/scref\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2032"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/scref\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/scref\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/scref\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions\/34"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/scref\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/scref\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/scref\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}