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...followed by attention. Everyone likes a winner and people who didn't used to know rugby from whiffle ball suddenly became afficionados. Enter the ruggers' unique formula for success: no varsity status, no university supervision (e.g. coaches), optional practices three days a week and, yes, kegs and rigorous beer consumption following practices...
Tradition is a word heard frequently around the rugby field. It's important to drink beer after practice, it's important to be an unsupervised club sport with a vigilante image, and it's important to have good, dirty fun. You might call it the ultimate "winning isn't everything" attitude...
...space cadets assume that Val Gals are simply updated versions of the 1940s bobbysoxer. Kiss my tuna! One conspicuous difference: the amount of billies a true Val pours into clothes, sunglasses, tanning oil, lip gloss, Tab, Doritos, Kahlúa brownies, Bubblicious chewing gum, beer (Heinies and Lowies), burritos, movies, Harlequin romances, records (anything by Journey, Rush, Van Halen, AC/DC) and movies (alltime fave: Mommie Dearest). Other Total Necessities: a blow dryer, a Walkman and at least one gold chain. PAVs are obsessed with fashion, crowding mondo cool stores from the Galleria in Sherman Oaks, Calif., to the Galleria...
These are the rites of initiation. Orientation meetings on subjects like time management. Tryouts for the glee club or the football team. Beer bashes. Join the struggle to save Lebanon; join the struggle to save Israel. At Princeton the freshmen and sophomores meet each other in a traditional series of games and rope pulls known as Cane Spree, which custom decrees that the freshmen lose. At Gettysburg College, the rituals of getting acquainted are even more folksy: a "shoe scramble" determines who will dance with whom. At Carleton, there is a fried-chicken picnic and square dancing on the grassy...
...Tops leader Levi Stubbs once described the genesis of "Baby I Need Your Loving" this way: "We'd sit around and talk and maybe sing a line at a time and try to get a feeling for the tune and send out and get a sandwich or a cold beer and wait an hour till the sandwich settled and then we'd take another shot at it. Lucky for us, we came up with a pretty good mood cut it and came up with a smash." The humble beginnings of Dancin' in the Street! mirror this. And, lucky...