List of Theta Chi members
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Notability

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Radley Balko

Civil Rights reporter, The Washington Post

Matt Gallagher

Gamma Omicron / Wake Forest University

Contributor for New York Times, and author

Mike Greenberg

Delta Iota / Northwestern University

Co-host of ESPN's Mike and Mike in the Morning

Jay Ingram

Zeta Gamma / University of Alberta

Toronto Star journalist, author, TV Host of several Discovery Channel Canada programs, including Daily Planet

Sean McManus

Gamma Sigma / Duke University

President of CBS News and CBS Sports

Harry Reasoner

Alpha Pi / University of Minnesota

Former news anchor of ABC & CBS, editor of 60 Minutes

Michael J. Shaara

Beta Delta / Rutgers University

Pulitzer Prize winner for the novel The Killer Angels, which served as the basis for the movie Gettysburg

Bob Woodruff

Iota / Colgate University

Former co-anchor of ABC's World News Tonight (recuperating from wounds sustained while on assignment in Iraq in January 2006)

Paul Zimmerman

Sports Editor of the Los Angeles Times

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Radley Balko ( born April 19 , 1975 ) is an American journalist , author , blogger , and speaker who lives in Nashville , Tennessee , and writes about criminal justice , the drug war , and civil liberties for The Washington Post . Balko has written and published several books including The Rise of the Warrior Cop and The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist .
The Washington Post ( sometimes abbreviated to WaPo ) is a major American daily newspaper published in Washington , D.C. Daily broadsheet editions are printed for the District of Columbia , Maryland , and Virginia . The newspaper has won 47 Pulitzer Prizes . This includes six separate Pulitzers awarded in 2008 , second only to The New York Times 's seven awards in 2002 for the highest number ever awarded to a single newspaper in one year . Post journalists have also received 18 Nieman Fellowships and 368 White House News Photographers Association awards . In the early 1970s , in the best-known episode in the newspaper 's history , reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein led the American press 's investigation into what became known as the Watergate scandal . Their reporting in The Washington Post greatly contributed to the resignation of President Richard Nixon . In years since , the Post 's investigations have led to increased review of the Walter Reed Army Medical Center . In October 2013 , the paper 's longtime controlling family , the Graham family , sold the newspaper to Nash Holdings , a holding company established by Jeff Bezos , for $ 250 million in cash .
Matt Gallagher ( born 1983 ) is an American author , former U.S. Army captain and veteran of the Iraq War . Gallagher has written on a variety of subjects , mainly contemporary war fiction and non-fiction . He first became known for his war memoir Kaboom ( 2010 ) , which tells of his and his scout platoon 's experiences during the Iraq War . He works as a writing instructor at Words After War , a literary nonprofit devoted to bringing veterans and civilians together to study conflict literature . In 2015 , Gallagher was featured in Vanity Fair alongside Elliot Ackerman , Maurice Decaul , Phil Klay , Kevin Powers and Brandon Willitts , as the voices of a new generation of American war literature . Among other media , he 's appeared on CBS News Sunday Morning , PBS NewsHour , BBC News and NPR 's The Diane Rehm Show . Gallagher was interviewed in September 2016 at the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan by General ( Retired ) David H. Petraeus . In January 2017 , Senator Elizabeth Warren read his Boston Globe op-ed Trump Rejects the Muslims Who Helped Us on the U.S. Senate Floor . Gallagher 's debut novel Youngblood was published in February 2016 by Atria Books , an imprint of Simon & Schuster . Youngblood has been met with widespread critical acclaim , receiving positive reviews and features in The New York Times , The Washington Post , Esquire , The Wall Street Journal and Vogue , and others . It was selected as a finalist for the 2016 Dayton Literary Peace Prize for fiction .
Wake Forest University is a private research university in Winston-Salem , North Carolina . Founded in 1834 , the university received its name from its original location in Wake Forest , north of Raleigh , North Carolina . The Reynolda Campus , the university 's main campus , has been located north of downtown Winston-Salem since the university moved there in 1956 . The Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center campus has two locations , the older one located near the Ardmore neighborhood in central Winston-Salem , and the newer campus at Wake Forest Innovation Quarter downtown . The university also occupies lab space at Biotech Plaza at Innovation Quarter , and at the Center for Nanotechnology and Molecular Materials . The university 's Graduate School of Management maintains a presence on the main campus in Winston-Salem and in Charlotte , North Carolina . Wake Forest has produced 15 Rhodes Scholars , including 13 since 1986 , four Marshall Scholars , 15 Truman Scholars and 92 Fulbright recipients since 1993. Notable people of Wake Forest University include author Maya Angelou , mathematician Phillip Griffiths , Senators Richard Burr and Kay Hagan , former sportscaster and athlete Billy Packer , athletes Chris Paul , Tim Duncan , Muggsy Bogues , Brian Piccolo and Arnold Palmer , and CEO Charlie Ergen . Wake Forest student athletes are known as the Demon Deacons and compete in the NCAA Division I - Atlantic Coast Conference .
The New York Times is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership . Founded in 1851 , the paper has won 127 Pulitzer Prizes , more than any other newspaper . The Times is ranked 18th in the world by circulation and 3rd in the U.S. Nicknamed The Gray Lady , the Times has long been regarded within the industry as a national newspaper of record . The paper 's motto , All the News That 's Fit to Print , appears in the upper left-hand corner of the front page . The paper is owned by The New York Times Company , which is publicly traded and is controlled by the Sulzberger family through a dual-class share structure . It has been owned by the family since 1896 ; A.G. Sulzberger , the paper 's publisher , and his father , Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. , the company 's chairman , are the fourth and fifth generation of the family to head the paper . Since the mid-1970s , The New York Times has greatly expanded its layout and organization , adding special weekly sections on various topics supplementing the regular news , editorials , sports , and features . Since 2008 , the Times has been organized into the following sections : News , Editorials/Opinions-Columns/Op-Ed , New York ( metropolitan ) , Business , Sports of The Times , Arts , Science , Styles , Home , Travel , and other features . On Sunday , the Times is supplemented by the Sunday Review ( formerly the Week in Review ) , The New York Times Book Review , The New York Times Magazine and T : The New York Times Style Magazine . The Times stayed with the broadsheet full-page set-up and an eight-column format for several years after most papers switched to six , and was one of the last newspapers to adopt color photography , especially on the front page .
Michael Darrow Greenberg ( born August 6 , 1967 ) is a television anchor , television show host , former radio show host for ESPN and ABC , and novelist . At ESPN , he hosted the weekday evening , most often Monday , SportsCenter and previously ESPN Radio 's Mike & Mike show with Mike Golic . At sister network ABC , he was the host of Duel , which aired from 2007 to 2008 . He also co-hosts Battle of the Network Stars with Joe Tessitore .
Northwestern University ( NU ) is a private research university based in Evanston , Illinois , with other campuses in Chicago and Doha , Qatar , and academic programs and facilities in Miami , Florida ; Washington , D.C. ; and San Francisco , California . Along with its selective undergraduate programs , Northwestern is known for its Kellogg School of Management , Pritzker School of Law , Feinberg School of Medicine , Bienen School of Music , Medill School of Journalism , Media , Integrated Marketing Communications , School of Communication , and McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science . Northwestern is a large research university with a comprehensive doctoral program , attracting nearly $ 800 million in sponsored research each year . As of January 2020 , Northwestern has the twelfth-largest university endowment in the United States , valued at $ 11.1 billion . The university 's former and present faculty and alumni include 19 Nobel Prize laureates , 38 Pulitzer Prize winners , six MacArthur Genius Fellows , 16 Rhodes Scholars , 65 members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and two Supreme Court Justices . Northwestern 's School of Communication is a leading producer of Academy Award , Emmy Award and Tony Award-winning actors , actresses , playwrights , writers and directors . Northwestern was founded in 1851 by John Evans , for whom the city of Evanston is named , and eight other lawyers , businessmen and Methodist leaders . Its founding purpose was to serve the Old Northwest Territory , an area that includes the states of Ohio , Indiana , Illinois , Michigan , Wisconsin and parts of Minnesota . Instruction began in 1855 and women were admitted in 1869 . Today , the main campus is a 240-acre ( 97 ha ) parcel in Evanston , along the shores of Lake Michigan 12 miles north of downtown Chicago . The university 's law , medical , and professional schools , along with its nationally ranked affiliated Northwestern Memorial Hospital , are located on a 25-acre ( 10 ha ) campus in Chicago 's Streeterville neighborhood . In 2008 , the university opened a campus in Education City , Doha , Qatar with programs in journalism and communication .
Jay Ingram CM ( born March 20 , 1945 ) is a Canadian author , broadcaster and science communicator . He was host of the television show Daily Planet ( originally titled @ discovery.ca ) , which aired on Discovery Channel Canada , since the channel 's inception in 1995 . Ingram 's last episode of Daily Planet aired on June 5 , 2011 . Ingram announced his retirement but stated he will make guest appearances on Daily Planet . He was succeeded by Dan Riskin . His book The End of Memory : A Natural History of Aging and Alzheimers is forthcoming from St. Martin 's Press in 2015 .
The University of Alberta ( also known as U of A and UAlberta ) is a public research university located in Edmonton , Alberta , Canada . It was founded in 1908 by Alexander Cameron Rutherford , the first premier of Alberta , and Henry Marshall Tory , its first president . Its enabling legislation is the Post-secondary Learning Act . The university is considered a Comprehensive academic and research university ( CARU ) , which means that it offers a range of academic and professional programs , which generally lead to undergraduate and graduate level credentials , and have a strong research focus . The university comprises four campuses in Edmonton , the Augustana Campus in Camrose , and a staff centre in downtown Calgary . The original north campus consists of 150 buildings covering 50 city blocks on the south rim of the North Saskatchewan River valley , directly across from downtown Edmonton . 39,000 students from Canada and 150 other countries participate in 400 programs in 18 faculties . The University of Alberta is a major economic driver in Alberta . The university 's impact on the Alberta economy is an estimated $ 12.3 billion annually , or five per cent of the province 's gross domestic product . The University of Alberta is also a leading institution for the study of Ukraine and is home to the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies . The University of Alberta has graduated more than 275,000 alumni , including Governor General Roland Michener ; Prime Minister Joe Clark ; Chief Justice of Canada Beverley McLachlin ; Alberta premiers Peter Lougheed , Dave Hancock , Jim Prentice and Rachel Notley ; Edmonton Mayor Don Iveson and Nobel laureate Richard E. Taylor . The university is a member of the Alberta Rural Development Network , the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education and the Sustainability Tracking , Assessment & Rating System .
The Toronto Star is a Canadian broadsheet daily newspaper . Based on 2015 statistics , it is Canada 's highest-circulation newspaper on overall weekly circulation ; although it is a close second to The Globe and Mail in daily circulation on weekdays , it overtakes the Globe in weekly circulation because the Globe does not publish a Sunday edition . The Toronto Star is owned by Toronto Star Newspapers Limited , a subsidiary of Torstar Corporation and part of Torstar 's Daily News Brands division .
Discovery is a Canadian specialty television channel owned by CTV Specialty Television Inc. ( a joint venture between Bell Media ( 80% ) and ESPN Inc. ( 20% ) , which owns 80% majority of the channel ) and Discovery , Inc. ( which owns the remaining 20% ) . The channel is devoted to nature , adventure , science and technology programming .
Daily Planet was a television program on Discovery Channel Canada which features daily news , discussion and commentary on the scientific aspects of current events and discoveries . The show first aired as @ discovery.ca in 1995 . It was renamed to Daily Planet in 2002 . The show relaunched in high definition in 2011 . From June 2012 until the show ended in May 2018 , the hosts were Ziya Tong and Dan Riskin . Daily Planet aired on Discovery Channel Canada , Monday through Friday at 7 p.m.EST ( Monday through Friday at 4 p.m.PST ) as of September 4 , 2012 . The show was canceled by Bell Media on May 23 , 2018 and its final episode aired on June 5 , 2018 .
Sean J. McManus ( born February 16 , 1955 ) is the chairman of CBS Sports and was the president of both CBS Sports and CBS News from 2005 to 2011 .
Harry Truman Reasoner ( April 17 , 1923 - August 6 , 1991 ) was an American journalist for ABC and CBS News , known for his inventive use of language as a television commentator , and as a founder of the 60 Minutes program . Over the course of his career , Reasoner won three Emmy Awards and a George Foster Peabody Award in 1967 .
The University of Minnesota , Twin Cities , ( the U of M , UMN , Minnesota , or simply the U ) is a public research university in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul , Minnesota . The Twin Cities campus comprises locations in Minneapolis and St. Paul approximately 3 miles ( 4.8 km ) apart , and the St. Paul location is in neighboring Falcon Heights . The Twin Cities campus is the oldest and largest in the University of Minnesota system and has the sixth-largest main campus student body in the United States , with 51,327 students in 2019-20 . It is the flagship institution of the University of Minnesota System , and is organized into 19 colleges , schools , and other major academic units . The University of Minnesota is included in a 1985 book describing America 's Public Ivy universities . The Minnesota Territorial Legislature drafted a charter for a territorial university in 1851 , the university took significant time to fully organize and the first college classes were n't held until 1867 . The university is classified among R1 : Doctoral Universities - Very high research activity . Minnesota is a member of the Association of American Universities and is ranked 14th in research activity , with $ 881 million in research and development expenditures in the fiscal year ending June 30 , 2015 . University of Minnesota faculty , alumni , and researchers have won 26 Nobel Prizes and three Pulitzer Prizes . Notable University of Minnesota alumni include two vice presidents of the United States , Hubert Humphrey and Walter Mondale , and Bob Dylan , who received the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature .
The American Broadcasting Company ( ABC ) is an American commercial broadcast radio and television network owned by the Disney Media Networks division of The Walt Disney Company . The network is headquartered in Burbank , California , on Riverside Drive , directly across the street from Walt Disney Studios and adjacent to the Roy E. Disney Animation Building . The network 's secondary offices , and headquarters of its news division , is in New York City , at its broadcast center at 77 West 66th Street on the Upper West Side of Manhattan . Since 2007 , when ABC Radio ( also known as Cumulus Media Networks ) was sold to Citadel Broadcasting , ABC has reduced its broadcasting operations almost exclusively to television . It is the fifth-oldest major broadcasting network in the world and the youngest of the Big Three television networks . ABC is nicknamed The Alphabet Network , as its initialism also represents the first three letters of the English alphabet , in order . ABC launched as a radio network on October 12 , 1943 , serving as the successor to the NBC Blue Network , which had been purchased by Edward J. Noble . It extended its operations to television in 1948 , following in the footsteps of established broadcast networks CBS and NBC . In the mid-1950s , ABC merged with United Paramount Theatres , a chain of movie theaters that formerly operated as a subsidiary of Paramount Pictures . Leonard Goldenson , who had been the head of UPT , made the new television network profitable by helping develop and greenlight many successful series . In the 1980s , after purchasing an 80 percent interest in cable sports channel ESPN , the network 's corporate parent , American Broadcasting Companies , Inc. , merged with Capital Cities Communications , owner of several print publications , and television and radio stations . In 1996 , most of Capital Cities/ABC 's assets were purchased by The Walt Disney Company .
CBS ( an initialism of the network 's former name , the Columbia Broadcasting System ) is an American English-language commercial broadcast television and radio network that is the flagship property of the CBS Entertainment Group division of ViacomCBS . The company is headquartered at the CBS Building in New York City with major production facilities and operations in New York City ( at the CBS Broadcast Center ) and Los Angeles ( at CBS Television City and the CBS Studio Center ) . CBS is sometimes referred to as the Eye Network , in reference to the company 's trademark symbol , in use since 1951 . It has also been called the Tiffany Network , alluding to the perceived high quality of CBS programming during the tenure of William S. Paley . It can also refer to some of CBS 's first demonstrations of color television , which were held in a former Tiffany & Co. building in New York City in 1950 . The network has its origins in United Independent Broadcasters Inc. , a collection of 16 radio stations purchased by Paley in 1928 and renamed the Columbia Broadcasting System . Under Paley 's guidance , CBS would first become one of the largest radio networks in the United States , and eventually one of the Big Three American broadcast television networks . In 1974 CBS dropped its former full name and became known simply as CBS , Inc . The Westinghouse Electric Corporation acquired the network in 1995 , renamed its corporate entity to the current CBS Broadcasting , Inc. in 1997 , and eventually adopted the name of the company it had acquired to become CBS Corporation . In 2000 CBS came under the control of the first Viacom , which was formed as a spin-off of CBS in 1971 . In late 2005 , Viacom split itself into two separate companies and re-established CBS Corporation through the spin-off of its broadcast television , radio , and select cable television and non-broadcasting assets , with the CBS television network at its core . CBS Corporation was controlled by Sumner Redstone through National Amusements , which also controlled the second Viacom until December 4 , 2019 , when the two separated companies agreed to re-merge to become the new single entity known as ViacomCBS .
60 Minutes is an American news magazine and television program broadcast on the CBS television network . Debuting in 1968 , the program was created by Don Hewitt , who chose to set it apart from other news programs by using a unique style of reporter-centered investigation . In 2002 , 60 Minutes was ranked at No . 6 on TV Guide 's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time and in 2013 , it was ranked # 24 on TV Guide 's 60 Best Series of All Time . The New York Times has called it one of the most esteemed news magazines on American television .
Michael Shaara ( June 23 , 1928 - May 5 , 1988 ) was an American author of science fiction , sports fiction , and historical fiction . He was born to an Italian immigrant father ( the family name was originally spelled Sciarra , which in Italian is pronounced in a similar way ) in Jersey City , New Jersey , graduated in 1951 from Rutgers University , where he joined Theta Chi , and served as a sergeant in the 82nd Airborne Division prior to the Korean War . Before Shaara began selling science fiction stories to fiction magazines during the 1950s , he was an amateur boxer and police officer . He later taught literature at Florida State University while continuing to write fiction . The stress of this and his cigarette smoking caused him , at the early age of 36 , to have a heart attack , from which he recovered completely . His novel about the Battle of Gettysburg , The Killer Angels , won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1975 . Shaara died of a heart attack in 1988 aged fifty-nine . Shaara 's children , Jeffrey and Lila , are also novelists . In 1997 , Jeffrey Shaara established the annual Michael Shaara Award for Excellence in Civil War Fiction , awarded at Gettysburg College .
Rutgers , The State University of New Jersey ( /ˈrʌtɡərz/ ) , commonly referred to as Rutgers University , or RU , is an American public research university in New Jersey . It is the largest institution of higher education in New Jersey . Rutgers was originally chartered as Queen 's College on November 10 , 1766 . It is the eighth-oldest college in the United States and one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution . The college was renamed Rutgers College in 1825 in honor of Colonel Henry Rutgers . For most of its existence , Rutgers was a private liberal arts college but it evolved into a coeducational public research university after being designated The State University of New Jersey by the New Jersey Legislature in laws enacted in 1945 and 1956 . Rutgers has three campuses located throughout New Jersey : New Brunswick campus in New Brunswick and adjacent Piscataway , the Newark campus , and the Camden campus . The university has additional facilities elsewhere in the state . Instruction is offered by 9,000 faculty members in 175 academic departments to over 45,000 undergraduate students and more than 20,000 graduate and professional students . The university is accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools and is a member of the Big Ten Academic Alliance , the Association of American Universities and the Universities Research Association . The New Brunswick campus was categorized by Howard and Matthew Green in their book titled The Public Ivies : America 's Flagship Public Universities ( 2001 ) as a Public Ivy .
The Killer Angels ( 1974 ) is a historical novel by Michael Shaara that was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1975 . The book tells the story of the three days of the Battle of Gettysburg in the American Civil War , and the day leading up to it : June 30 , 1863 , as the troops of both the Union and the Confederacy move into battle around the town of Gettysburg , Pennsylvania , and July 1 , July 2 , and July 3 , when the battle was fought . The story is character-driven and told from the perspective of various protagonists , mainly James Longstreet and Robert Lee with the Confederates , and John Buford and Joshua L. Chamberlain with the Union . A film adaptation of the novel , titled Gettysburg , was released in 1993 .
Gettysburg is a 1993 American epic war film about the Battle of Gettysburg in the American Civil War . Written and directed by Ronald F. Maxwell , the film was adapted from the historical novel The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara . It features an ensemble cast , including Tom Berenger as James Longstreet , Jeff Daniels as Joshua Chamberlain , Martin Sheen as Robert E. Lee , Stephen Lang as George Pickett , and Sam Elliott as John Buford . Originally filmed as a miniseries for TNT , Gettysburg received a limited theatrical release from New Line Cinema under the direction of Ted Turner , who owned both entities . At 254 minutes , it is one of the longest films released by a major film studio in the United States . It received positive reviews from critics and grossed $ 12.7 million on a $ 20 million budget . A prequel , Gods and Generals , was released in 2003 , also directed by Maxwell and featuring many returning cast members .
Robert Warren Woodruff ( born August 18 , 1961 ) is an American television journalist .
Colgate University is a private liberal arts college in Hamilton , New York . Founded in 1819 , Colgate enrolls nearly 3,000 students in 56 undergraduate majors that culminate in a Bachelor of Arts degree ; it also enrolls a dozen students in a Master of Arts in Teaching program .
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Paul Lionel Zimmerman ( October 23 , 1932 - November 1 , 2018 ) known to readers as Dr. Z , was an American football sportswriter and former player who wrote for the weekly magazine Sports Illustrated , as well as the magazine 's website , SI.com . He is sometimes confused with Paul B. Zimmerman , a sportswriter who covered football for the Los Angeles Times from 1931 to 1968 .
The Los Angeles Times ( sometimes abbreviated as LA Times or L.A. Times ) is a daily newspaper based in El Segundo , California , which has been published in Los Angeles , California , since 1881 . It has the fourth-largest circulation among United States newspapers , and is the largest U.S. newspaper not headquartered on the East Coast . The paper is known for its coverage of issues particularly salient to the U.S. West Coast , such as immigration trends and natural disasters . It has won more than 40 Pulitzer Prizes for its coverage of these and other issues . As of June 18 , 2018 [ update ] , ownership of the paper is controlled by Patrick Soon-Shiong , and the executive editor is Norman Pearlstine . In the nineteenth century , the paper was known for its civic boosterism and opposition to unions , the latter of which led to the bombing of its headquarters in 1910 . The paper 's profile grew substantially in the 1960s under publisher Otis Chandler , who adopted a more national focus . In recent decades the paper 's readership has declined , and it has been beset by a series of ownership changes , staff reductions , and other controversies . In January 2018 , the paper 's staff voted to unionize ; they finalized their first union contract on October 16 , 2019 . The paper moved out of its historic downtown headquarters to a facility near Los Angeles International Airport in July 2018 .