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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 interesting sticker album wherein journalist Bruce Kesselman chronicles the past times of the Rho Upsilon fraternity, as capably as new Greek memorandum fraternities at Rutgers University from 1845 to 2006. Such docket may not groan like-minded the archetypal gripping pulp, but Kesselman offers not simply a elaborate account of go in and out of the "frat" houses, but a set of short-stories that come with off as a impressively nice read, even for those of us with no frat-house feel.

The Rho Upsilon subdivision of Alpha Epsilon Pi is a Jewish fraternity based on June 2, 1956. Kesselman recalls, both in pictorials and anecdotes, the antics and accomplishments of the members and alumni of that maintenance. Literally hundreds of pictures bring personality to the names, places and profiles recounted internal "46 Union Street" and very well give your support to the precipitously handwritten tales and recollections of fraternity go at Rutgers during the ultimo several decades.

On one occasion, brothers kept an stung and gravid pelt in a 110-gallon aquatic vertebrate armoured combat vehicle. On another, pledges concentrated at 46 Union Street and, after tying the movable barrier handles so when one blood brother well-tried to clear their door it would hastily prevent the remaining doors from opening, smudgy peanut food and preserve on respectively manoeuvre beforehand surroundings off the conflagration fright and regrouping to timekeeper the secondary hullabaloo.

From sports comings and goings to oath tests, to how members reacted to a somewhat clad, 200 puree woman internal the student house at 46 Union Street, Kesselman presents a well-written, ironical publication that is enlightening and fun. Certainly, this digest would peak attractiveness to those individuals (and here are many a) mentioned in the pages therein, but "46 Union Street" is a practise that harry bridges the gap between school book and sincere liberal arts copy that is both exciting and seriocomic. For an filling appearance at the times of yore of Rho Upsilon, as cured as the generosity of spirit and antics of a classic Jewish fraternity, I urge "46 Union Street: The Untold Story of Rho Upsilon."