Word: alcoholism
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...Alcohol. Mind-expanding drugs. Learn how to say all of these words in sign language at PBH's American Sign Language Classes for beginners. Sponsored by the Committee on Deaf Awareness. Mondays 8-9 p.m. and Thursdays 6-7. For more information, contact ken@digitas.harvard.edu...
...victim told The Crimson yesterday that shewas "feeling the effects of alcohol" that night...
When newly appointed Dartmouth College President James Wright announced two weeks ago that his institution would end its long Greek tradition, he sent a clarion call through the nation's universities. Premised on the noble goals of improving residential life and reducing alcohol abuse, this decision furthers a disturbing trend of social engineering prevailing among educational administrators...
Increasingly, these ivory tower pooh-bahs ignore students' interests and enforce an illiberal orthodoxy. Single-sex fraternities and sororities are bad, the argument goes, because they stifle social interaction, encourage anti-intellectual behavior and exacerbate the unsafe use of alcohol. Perhaps most importantly, Greek life is said to retard attempts at campus integration by separating men from women and excluding traditionally underrepresented groups. One wonders where thoughts of these goals are when pushing drinking into more exclusive and unsafe dorm parties or arranging housing based on ethnicity. As part of the aging Baby Boom, university administrators have turned free speech...
There was no public grousing when New York City police confiscated Francisco Almonte's car. Shortly after he slammed into a taxi last week, the 57-year-old Queens resident took a Breathalyzer test that showed he had a blood-alcohol level of 0.19, almost twice the legal limit of 0.10. Then there was the matter of his eight previous arrests for drunk driving. The grumbling began later, when the N.Y.P.D. took possession of a 1988 Acura that belonged to librarian Pavel Grinberg. The Polish immigrant, 28, who had been swerving when police pulled him over, was legally drunk...