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...Louisiana State University last week. He received a pledge pin from the fraternity that voted him into the brotherhood, and he got rip-roaring drunk to celebrate. Wynne and his fellow Sigma Alpha Epsilon brothers began their bacchanalia with an off-campus keg party featuring "funneling," in which beer is shot through a rubber hose into the drinker's mouth. Next came a communal bender at Murphy's bar, a frat hangout a few hundred yards from L.S.U. There, the libation of choice was "Three Wise Men," a high-octane mix of 151-proof rum, Crown Royal whiskey and Jagermeister...
Colleges today are among the nation's most alcohol-drenched institutions. America's 12 million undergraduates drink 4 billion cans of beer a year, averaging 55 six-packs apiece, and spend $446 on alcoholic beverages--more than they spend on soft drinks and textbooks combined. Excessive drinking among college students has been blamed for at least six deaths in the past year. Studies show that excessive drinking affects not only the bingers but also fellow students, who are more likely to report lost sleep, interrupted studies and sexual assaults on campuses with high binge-drinking rates. Several schools, including...
...flask scene that accompanies athletic events. But increasingly the pressure to drink is coming from bars catering to students, which aggressively promote themselves on school grounds. College newspapers, which get 35% of their advertising revenues from alcohol-related ads, are filled with come-ons for nickel pitchers of beer and "ladies drink free" specials. Bars distribute handbills to students as they walk between classes and put flyers under doors in freshman dorms. On many campuses, bars send shuttle buses to round up students. "There really are establishments that prey on youth," says Frances Lucas-Tauchar, vice president for campus life...
Digital goofing with old clips has given John Wayne and Fred Astaire the opportunity to sell Coors beer and Dirt Devil vacuum cleaners on TV despite being dead. A more disturbing prospect is represented by a film called Everything's George, which begins shooting this week. It will star George Burns, who is also dead but will nevertheless appear, as himself, with the blessing of his estate. "Five weeks after he died, we already had the rights," boasts producer Paul Greenberg. The screenplay posits Burns as a recent arrival in heaven, a Level One angel desperate to reunite with...
...planning to buy more beer than books at college this fall, have we got the spot for you. The Princeton Review today names West Virginia University the top party school in the nation. Here's the Review's complete list of Party U's. WVU President David Hardesty isn't exactly honored by the ranking. "It's an image problem," he said. For those of you seeking a higher education rather than a higher alcohol tolerance, try Money Online's guide to the best college buys...