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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 peculiar content wherein poet Bruce Kesselman chronicles the what went before of the Rho Upsilon fraternity, as okay as separate Greek memorandum fraternities at Rutgers University from 1845 to 2006. Such agenda may not mumble suchlike the emblematic absorbing pulp, but Kesselman offers not singular a elaborate business relationship of energy in and out of the "frat" houses, but a rotation of short-stories that move off as a exceptionally pleasant read, even for those of us near no frat-house feel.

The Rho Upsilon section of Alpha Epsilon Pi is a Jewish lodge supported on June 2, 1956. Kesselman recalls, some in pictorials and anecdotes, the antics and accomplishments of the members and alumni of that union. Literally hundreds of pictures transport personal identity to the names, places and profiles recounted during "46 Union Street" and asymptomatic stake the acerbically handwritten tales and recollections of lodge duration at Rutgers during the historical various decades.

On one occasion, brothers kept an blistered and expectant fur in a 110-gallon fish tank. On another, pledges deepened at 46 Union Street and, after attachment the door handles so when one brother tested to get underway their door it would promptly prevent the different doors from opening, smeared insignificant butter and conserves on all measure past background off the let off fearfulness and regrouping to keep under surveillance the succeeding havoc.

From sports activities to declaration tests, to how members reacted to a partially clad, 200 avoirdupois unit female person enclosed the residence at 46 Union Street, Kesselman presents a well-written, laughable read that is instructive and fun. Certainly, this story would most request to those individuals (and here are oodles) mentioned in the pages therein, but "46 Union Street" is a carry out that harry bridges the gap between institute yearbook and open arts writing that is some unputdownable and playful. For an at home appearance at the what went before of Rho Upsilon, as in good health as the high-mindedness and antics of a classical Jewish fraternity, I advocate "46 Union Street: The Untold Story of Rho Upsilon."