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...according to Lisa Birnbach's New and Improved College Book, the worst thing about Harvard is that the "social life sucks...

Author: By Molly B. Confer, | Title: NO MIDDLE GROUND | 6/4/1992 | See Source »

...read in one of those Lisa Birnbach books that `Jesus' was an easy class at Harvard," says Joanna Weiss...

Author: By Mary LOUISE Kelly, | Title: Harvard Guts: More Than You've Bargained For? | 9/21/1990 | See Source »

...kindling, let's pile high all the Bean catalogue on campus. Self-proclaimed ex-preppies can speak on how they broke the habit, and we can burn an effigy of Lisa Birnbach...

Author: By Steven Lipin, | Title: Got Those Homogenized Blues | 5/2/1985 | See Source »

Mating rituals on the college campus are reacquiring a rich patina of hypocrisy. "College students are much more conservative now than they used to be," says Lisa Birnbach, co-author of The Official Preppy Handbook and now creator of Lisa Birnbach's College Book. "There's more dating, more courtship, a return of women's 'reputations' and the good old double standard. People are still sneaking around to have sexual relations, but they don't talk about it. It's viewed as kind of'icky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Minding Our Manners Again | 11/5/1984 | See Source »

...Birnbach thinks that many Purdue students "drink, and drink heavily." Well, please tell her that we Boilermakers do not care about the opinions of anyone who wears an Indiana University sweatshirt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 22, 1984 | 10/22/1984 | See Source »

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