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...that their dates were dumber than they were. In other watery news, a few inhabitants of a certain river house were finally able to move back into their sewage-ravaged rooms, which, according to some, still reek. Speaking of stink, The Advocate (also known as “The Club?? in the newly screened Ivory Tower) raised a stink one Saturday night as new initiates handed out golden apples as sexual invitations...apparently, ugly people need to make these things clear. Meanwhile one heavy-hitting dean’s son embarked on a little general education...
...Republican Club??s targeted campaigns did not return phone inquiries...
...clunks awkwardly from a carabiner on his CamelBak, chooses cappuccino served straight up in a biodegradable cup. But just because he’s wearing Teva’s, a flannel shirt, and Carhartt’s, don’t assume he just got back from the Outing Club??s kayaking trip—that was last weekend. This Saturday, the Peet’s aficionado will load up his Volvo with kegs for the PfoHo Bell Tower rager. He doesn’t live there, but they share a New York Times subscription...
...exposed to the thigh, or that one’s coiffure is the product of four hours’ labor, or that the day’s maquillage is glowing just right under the streetlight, if the same person is evacuating her stomach on the pavement outside a final club??a scene not so uncommon these days. Just as the mutilated bodies of Toscanini’s employees send their own signals, preppy fashion at Harvard so frequently collides with the wearers’ bad behavior that I’ve taken seersucker and salmon, among other aspects...
Conversely, once they have become members, punches suddenly find that the world revolves around them (or, rather, “The Club??). Although there are exceptions, membership in an exclusive, privileged group breeds a sense of entitlement. Just like going to Harvard leaves graduates with notorious egos, many of the final club members I know emerge (consciously or not) from the punch process with an unwarranted sense of self-importance...