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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 irregular manuscript wherein critic Bruce Kesselman chronicles the ancient times of the Rho Upsilon fraternity, as recovered as else Greek memo fraternities at Rutgers University from 1845 to 2006. Such menu may not grumble similar the typic stimulating pulp, but Kesselman offers not just a careful details of existence in and out of the "frat" houses, but a set of short-stories that locomote off as a exceptionally enjoyable read, even for those of us next to no frat-house feel.

The Rho Upsilon chapter of Alpha Epsilon Pi is a Jewish society based on June 2, 1956. Kesselman recalls, both in pictorials and anecdotes, the antics and accomplishments of the members and alumni of that supervision. Literally hundreds of pictures carry personal identity to the names, places and profiles recounted surrounded by "46 Union Street" and resourcefully strut the suddenly written tales and recollections of lodge time at Rutgers during the past respective decades.

On one occasion, brothers kept an harmed and having a baby raccoon in a 110-gallon aquatic vertebrate military vehicle. On another, pledges concentrated at 46 Union Street and, after ligature the door handles so when one blood brother well-tried to instigate their door it would at once prevent the opposite doors from opening, smirched minor food and conserves on respectively tactical manoeuvre formerly surroundings off the happening fright and regrouping to view the consequential din.

From sports accomplishments to promise tests, to how members reacted to a somewhat clad, 200 beat female person covered the student house at 46 Union Street, Kesselman presents a well-written, tragicomic read that is instructive and fun. Certainly, this textbook would utmost implore to those individuals (and in that are many) mentioned in the pages therein, but "46 Union Street" is a career that bridges the gap involving school book and authentic humanistic discipline papers that is some intriguing and comic. For an covered visage at the past of Rho Upsilon, as very well as the aristocracy and antics of a classical Jewish fraternity, I advise "46 Union Street: The Untold Story of Rho Upsilon."