Word: alcoholism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...September 1997, the Boston City Licensing Board shut down MIT's Phi Gamma Delta fraternity after first-year pledge Scott Kreuger died from alcohol poisoning at one of the fraternity's parties. Every since, the news media has given MIT fraternity antics national attention. That attention is currently being lavished on a recent rash of stupidly self-destructive stunts...
Last year, Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE) served alcohol to a prospective student during campus preview week. MIT placed it on alcohol-free probation. This September, the fraternity allegedly served alcohol to an underage Wellesley College student who eventually required hospitalization. MIT suspended the fraternity, effectively banning it from participating in school events...
...unlucky proprietor of the annoyingly ancient "Blue Laws," Massachusetts has yet to repeal these laws responsible for early Sunday closings, the ban on alcohol sales after 10:45 p.m., the closing of liquor stores on Sundays and the closing of bars...
...diet that lets you eat pork rinds. Sam Panayotovich, 53, the Illinois state liquor commissioner, has been following a combination of Atkins and a 1979 local diet known as the whipped-cream-and-martini diet. The diet allows fondue, bourguignon, bearnaise, fried chicken, chunks of steak and enough alcohol for a buzz. He's lost 53 lbs. and kept it off for 11 months, a personal record. Like most Atkins adherents, the liquor commissioner talks about his diet with a mystical admiration. "When you talk about this diet, that you can drink and have a nice steak and lose weight...
...freshman has to reach out and start from scratch." College is a more pressured environment than it used to be, in part because the academic gap between high school and college has increased. Many college freshmen have never had to make independent decisions about sex, drugs and alcohol. Most don't know how to manage their time or money. They often feel lonely and overwhelmed, resulting in exhaustion, anxiety and depression...