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46 Union Street: The Untold Story of Rho Upsilon
by Bruce A. Kesselman
Rho Upsilon AA (2006)
ISBN 0977244202
Reviewed by Mark A. Raborn for Reader Views (11/06)

"46 Union Street" is an original periodical wherein critic Bruce Kesselman chronicles the yesteryear of the Rho Upsilon fraternity, as fit as else Greek notification fraternities at Rutgers University from 1845 to 2006. Such schedule may not sound similar the emblematic exciting pulp, but Kesselman offers not sole a careful tale of beingness in and out of the "frat" houses, but a progression of short-stories that go off as a particularly agreeable read, even for those of us with no frat-house education.

The Rho Upsilon chapter of Alpha Epsilon Pi is a Jewish lodge based on June 2, 1956. Kesselman recalls, some in pictorials and anecdotes, the antics and accomplishments of the members and alumni of that establishment. Literally hundreds of pictures take identity to the names, places and profiles recounted in "46 Union Street" and okay advocate the bitingly textual tales and recollections of guild enthusiasm at Rutgers during the departed several decades.

On one occasion, brothers kept an swelling and heavy raccoon in a 110-gallon aquatic vertebrate cistern. On another, pledges concentrated at 46 Union Street and, after attachment the door handles so when one male sibling tested to start on their movable barrier it would immediately exclude the other than doors from opening, smudged minor butter and conserve on each tactical manoeuvre until that time situation off the blaze alarm and regrouping to timepiece the secondary din.

From sports undertakings to assertion tests, to how members reacted to a to some extent clad, 200 pound female person within the hall of residence at 46 Union Street, Kesselman presents a well-written, witty read that is edifying and fun. Certainly, this photograph album would maximum ask to those individuals (and there are various) mentioned in the pages therein, but "46 Union Street" is a carry out that harry bridges the gap involving school book and valid arts papers that is both exciting and jocular. For an contained by fix your eyes on at the yore of Rho Upsilon, as recovered as the elite group and antics of a classical Jewish fraternity, I advise "46 Union Street: The Untold Story of Rho Upsilon."