Word: birnbach
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...
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...
...children have attended six of the institutions mentioned in Lisa Birnbach 's College Book [EDUCATION, Oct. 1]. They found her guide accurate, even to such details as the University of Kansas Tan Man who suns himself on campus summer and winter. There are a few exceptions. Birnbach has miraculously moved the University of Notre Dame from South Bend to Fort Wayne...
Standard college catalogs help students decide where they will be successful. Birnbach's uninhibited, perceptive guide helps them decide where they will be successful and happy...
...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...