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...infamous “Debauchery.” Tom Dow`03 recounts last year’s scandalous event. “You couldn’t move. It was disgusting. You had to push through sweaty, nasty bodies to get anywhere. There were people dancing on the food-checker line. It was out of control in a bad way. People got physically hurt.” In addition, alcohol served in the House courtyard intoxicated partygoers who then clogged bathroom sinks with vomit. “You couldn’t wash your hands. It was just ridiculous...

Author: By W. L. Adams, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Get Chaste or Chased | 11/8/2001 | See Source »

...CHUBBY CHECKER wants respect. You'd think then that the first place he might go is city hall and revert to birth name Ernest Evans. But no. The Chubster is marching on a different hall: the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, Ohio. As footloose popularizer of the Twist, Checker wants a statue of his likeness erected in the Hall of Fame's courtyard for services to dancing. (He also popularized the Fly, the Pony and the now legendary Hucklebuck.) "This is Nobel Prize territory," he insists. The quest came to him after an appearance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 15, 2001 | 10/15/2001 | See Source »

During a game of checkers, a regular barside attraction with Vinnie, Vietnam vet and checker master, the Harvard Square character shared his game strategy with an FM staffer: “I’m going to make you disappear. Well, not you. Your checkers. I don’t ever want you to leave. I want to chain you to my bed.” Then he tried to seal the deal with a sloppy kiss. Now that doesn’t happen at Daedalus...

Author: By The FM Crack staff, | Title: Whitney's A Night Out | 9/21/2001 | See Source »

...checker at Hillel took a day off to stand with us...Something I was doing made someone feel helped...

Author: By Victoria C. Hallett, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Roving Reporter | 4/27/2001 | See Source »

...revising, though the process will be just as draining. You will feel ecstatic about strange things, like finding an errant quote or cutting out the split infinitives. You also will find yourself talking about the thesis like it was super-interesting to others, from section to bars to the checker in the dining hall. Please feel free to restrain yourself. Please...

Author: By Adam I. Arenson, | Title: A Thesis Diary | 3/9/2001 | See Source »

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