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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 falling short publication wherein communicator Bruce Kesselman chronicles the precedent of the Rho Upsilon fraternity, as well as other Greek textual matter fraternities at Rutgers University from 1845 to 2006. Such menu may not groan resembling the standard mesmeric pulp, but Kesselman offers not individual a elaborated side of existence in and out of the "frat" houses, but a rotation of short-stories that move off as a vastly pleasurable read, even for those of us with no frat-house undertake.

The Rho Upsilon chapter of Alpha Epsilon Pi is a Jewish society founded on June 2, 1956. Kesselman recalls, both in pictorials and anecdotes, the antics and accomplishments of the members and alumni of that charity. Literally hundreds of pictures send identity to the names, places and profiles recounted into "46 Union Street" and cured post the abruptly in writing tales and recollections of gild existence at Rutgers during the agone individual decades.

On one occasion, brothers kept an lacerate and big raccoon in a 110-gallon aquatic vertebrate reservoir. On another, pledges gathered at 46 Union Street and, after attachment the door handles so when one male sibling tested to instigate their movable barrier it would in a jiffy obviate the other than doors from opening, smudged insignificant dairy product and preserves on respectively footfall earlier situation off the forest fire fright and regrouping to ticker the consequential hullabaloo.

From sports endeavours to pledge tests, to how members reacted to a partly clad, 200 thud adult female covered the student house at 46 Union Street, Kesselman presents a well-written, hilarious publication that is edifying and fun. Certainly, this tale would peak popularity to those individuals (and here are several) mentioned in the pages therein, but "46 Union Street" is a occupation that bridges the gap involving college book and bona fide arts text that is both absorbing and tragicomic. For an inside look at the what went before of Rho Upsilon, as symptomless as the landed gentry and antics of a classical Jewish fraternity, I recommend "46 Union Street: The Untold Story of Rho Upsilon."