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...found itself somewhat involved this year in the usual collegiate argle-bargle: urging longer hours for female guests (in accord with the ideal of “gracious living”), advocating an additional mid-year vacation and drinking for 18-year olds, battling the Harvard Athletic Association for alcohol in the stands, tickets, and general principles. Yet in the midst of the frivolity The Crime somehow found time for serious consideration of a few major issues...
When Allie F. Rosene-Mirvis ’09 moved into Lowell last week, she had a less-than-merry welcome awaiting her in her new dorm—trash bags were piled in the middle of the room, clothes were left about, and unfinished bottles of alcohol remained from bygone days, she said...
Gaining ground these days is another idea: that food cravings are true addictions, like those to drugs and alcohol. Some addiction experts suggest that the underlying problem is a disturbance of dopamine, the neurotransmitter that mediates pleasure. But they can't say whether potato chips trigger dopamine release or we have simply learned to associate eating potato chips with pleasurable sensations...
...DOUBLE JUBILEEAs a result of the interactions Whitman had been used to, she says she “veered towards guys who were older.” On the particular night of a “Jolly-up”—smoky Radcliffe mixers with lax alcohol rules—two graduate students decided to celebrate the completion of their oral exams by doing something mindless: getting jollied-up. One of the doctoral students, who led Whitman’s Gen Ed section, hated dancing with his students. So his friend, Robert Whitman, took her hand?...
...sound like a lot of work to enforce, but Diadema's transformation has been well worth it. "The decline in the murder rate was substantial, the most substantial we?ve seen globally over such a time period," said Bob Reynolds, director of the Pacific Institute's Alcohol Policy Initiatives in West Virginia and a consultant on the Diadema project. "They made a relatively modest intervention...and they got these dramatic improvements. I was able to tell them, 'This is as good as it gets...