Word: dorm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...throw up on their shoes have launched a growing backlash against their inebriated peers. Not just freshmen, prodded by overanxious parents, but upperclassmen as well are demanding alcohol- and drug-free living and study environments. Even at party-hearty Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, the students in an entire dorm have pledged to stay sober during their four years of school. Repentant drinkers, meanwhile, are helping organize Alcoholics Anonymous groups on campus...
...times is a phenomenon called frontloading, in which students drink alcohol, usually hard liquor, in private before attending a social event. "It's difficult to get alcohol when you're out because of the age law," explains Seph McKenna, a junior who lives in a substance-free dorm at Boston College. "So people say, 'I'd better be lubricated before I go out."' When writer Christopher Buckley gave the keynote address at the annual evening banquet of the Yale Daily News last month, he was so outraged by the boorish behavior of audience members, many of whom had been drinking...
HASCS officials said the number of students with link-ups from their dorm rooms has surpassed 2000. Another 1000 computers of professors and administrators are connected to the Internet, a global data communication network...
...student link-ups represent a significant increase from the 800 students that were connected to the network from their dorm rooms as of June...
...fire in the fireplace of Wigglesworth H-21 last night sent smoke pouring into the common room, setting off an alarm that evacuated the entire dorm at about...