Word: boulder
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...says Devon Jersild, a journalist who talked with college-age women for her book Happy Hours: Alcohol in a Woman's Life. "They associate drinking with power, and they think that if they drink like a guy, they will be like a guy." At the University of Colorado at Boulder, where frequent binge drinking among women rose 67% between 1993 and 2000, women routinely brag of matching men in alcohol consumption. Sarah, 21, describes a "keg stand"--two friends suspend you by your ankles over a keg, and you guzzle as much cheap beer as quickly...
Schools are beginning to see it as an equal-opportunity issue. The University of Colorado at Boulder now dispatches female cops to advise women how to have a safe night on the town. "When you're drunk, you'll have sex with someone you wouldn't have lunch with," went one pitch, "so bring condoms." To underscore the message, the university recently stationed the blown-out wreckage of a red Honda Prelude at the center of campus. It was once driven by Alisa Harden, killed at 16 when she drank and drove into a mail truck...
...course this assumes that women feel demeaned by deals that help them save hundreds of dollars each semester. After a fight, the University of Colorado at Boulder dissuaded bars immediately adjacent to campus from offering special promos to women. But now women just flock several blocks away to a joint called the Walrus, where they drink at a deep discount on Thursdays. An ad for the bar shows a pair of silken panties with the message, "Lose Something?" The bartender says a popular drink among female patrons is a mixture of Red Bull, Grand Marnier, Stoli Ohranj and orange juice...
...loving husband to Hurley and father to her child. I am a 23-year-old, soon-to-be graduate student. I speak three languages; I am witty, intelligent, well traveled and highly athletic. I can rebuild a carburetor and make a bed. I would not disappoint Hurley. ROBERT IVAN Boulder, Colo...
Lauren E. Kivett-Ripmaster ’03 listens to country music “religiously,” waiting to go back home to Boulder, Colorado. “I will move back west when I graduate. That is a promise,” she says. “But my time in the East has definitely been worthwhile. Everyone should at least experience it a little...