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Four years after collaborating on The Official Preppy Handbook, Lisa Birnbach has returned with a prequel: life before Bif and Muffy get the desk and mortgage. Lisa Birnbach's College Book runs down-sometimes literally-186 American schools. "I realized that there wasn't a single college guide that described life on campus," she recalls, "at least not the things that interested...
What interests her are dorms, bars, amusements and sexual mores, as well as academics. According to the Birnbach report, Animal House was not such an exaggeration after all: at the University of Texas, "hazing is still popular; people get beaten up, raped, and just love it." Interracial dating at the University of Nebraska? "White sorority girls love to squeal, 'Once you go black, you never go back...
...Birnbach (Brown '78) bases her insights on more than rumor; she visited every campus in the book. Ducking into bars, attending the odd class, she sought students, professors and administrators, and distributed nine-page questionnaires. "I stayed in dorms," she declares in the tone of a war correspondent. "I ate cafeteria food every...
Hemenway Gymnasium is being invaded. At first sight it looks like a preppy convention from a page of Lisa Birnbach's "Preppy Handbook...
...wide can make all the difference." Only that idle elite can afford to spend time learning to detect such trivial differences and can squander money paying for them. What a pity that the rest of us are not the beneficiaries of a higher education similar to that of Birnbach et al.; we too might learn not to perspire in the shade of palm trees and tennis courts...