Many sold food including cake, candy, sandwiches, etc. The $15,000 requirement is equal to nearly $217,000 in today’s funds.Ĭhapters and their alumnae hosted bridge parties, fashion shows, lectures, dances, movies, and rummage sales. The early 1920s were a whirlwind of fundraising efforts for the groups at Northwestern. The second condition required was that each sorority raise $15,000.00 before the University broke ground for the buildings in 1925. Two quadrangles were planned for the houses and sororities were allowed to choose sites in order of their age in the University. The houses were to be built on University property and each sorority should lease for 99 years the ground for its house. When President Walter Dill Scott announced in 1921 that sororities at last should be allowed to build their own houses he imposed two conditions. We regret this error.The 1930 History of Kappa Kappa Gamma (one of my absolute favorite GLO histories!) gives this account: This article was updated Apto reflect the following:ĭue to an editing error, a caption that did not match the photo was uploaded. “At times when you don’t get that huge job or you don’t get into that thing that you wanted to get into, in my experience, something ten times more amazing has been the result,” Braff said. He explained that the opportunity to star in “Scrubs” only came about because he was turned down for a role in a New York City play. The funds, raised through the crowdfunding site Kickstarter, will go toward his next movie, “Wish I Was Here,” which will follow the tone and style of “Garden State.”īraff called crowdsourcing a “new frontier for filmmakers who won’t get help from studios to make money.” He said he plans to start production this summer.īraff also told the crowd that he wanted to “impart some knowledge on you and not just make weed jokes.”
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He arrived on the Lisner stage after raising more than $1 million in a 12-hour period for his next movie – half the total goal.
“There has been an accident,” Braff said he scribbled on a note, written with help from a friend whose French was out-of-practice. He also talked about a pregnancy scare after having sex on a train in Europe, and the struggle to obtain a morning-after pill from a French pharmacist. But I’m sure they don’t have that here,” Braff said, prompting laughter in the crowd.īraff also recounted losing his virginity, calling it “more of a short story than a novel” because of his lack of experience. “As fucked up as it was, we really did bond. Initially hesitant about joining Greek life, Braff said soon after rushing, he had already dated a sorority girl, rode in the back of a moving van and bonded with his pledge brothers while the upperclassmen hazed them. The 38-year-old, who graduated with a degree in film in 1997, said he first bonded with his fraternity brothers in Phi Kappa Psi because “they smoked a shitload of weed.”
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Within minutes of arriving on stage, Braff had flashed his chest, sung songs, and cracked jokes that made the GW administrator sharing the stage with him cringe.īraff instructed the moderator, Vice President for External Relations Lorraine Voles, to put on “earmuffs” each time he joked about sex and drugs on college campuses. The event, hosted by the Interfraternity Council, Panhellenic Association and Multicultural Greek Council, cost $20,000, IFC chair Casey Wood said. The writer-actor-director of “Garden State,” who was a member of Phi Kappa Psi at Northwestern University, joined roughly 1,000 students in Lisner Auditorium.
The star who got his big break on “Scrubs” spoke Wednesday about everything from an on-screen make-out session with Natalie Portman, which he called “wonderful,” to a run around Paris looking for morning-after birth control pills for a recent hook-up. Before making it to the big screen, Zach Braff was smoking weed and riding drunk in the back of vans with his fellow fraternity brothers.
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