Word: drunkenness
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...exams and frat parties. Almost every college graduate can spin at least a few tales about a boisterous night of carousing that culminated in slugging shots of tequila at sunrise or tossing drained kegs into the president's pool. Even Thomas Jefferson had to contend with a group of drunken rowdies who caused a near riot at the school that he founded, the University of Virginia. Ever since then, periodic efforts to crack down on excessive alcohol consumption among young scholars have been largely futile. Enforcing strict rules on university turf seemed to push the parties off campus. Raising...
...also says that Harvard students neither knows or care whether Dartmouth is. An isolated case of pretentious ignorance... or so I thought. In his column, however, Sean D. Wissman describes Dartmouth students as 'obnoxious, drunken laggards' who show up in drunken stupors for Head of the Charles weekend ("Words of Wissman, Sports, Nov. 1, 1994). Wissman unfairly mentions the worst and most untrue stereotypes of Dartmouth students...
...have been helpful had he researched his facts first. Would you call former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop an 'obnoxious drunken laggard?" How about IBM Chief Executive Officer Lewis Gerstner? Nationally acclaimed prize-winning author Louise Erdrich? How about former Sen. Paul E. Tsongas (D-Mass.) or Secretary of Labor and former Kennedy School Professor Robert S. Reich? Maybe U.S. News and World Report Economics Editor Susan Dentzer or Dr. Seuss (Theodore Geisel) are 'drunken laggards.' If not, then surely John Guare, playwright and author of "Six Degrees of Separation" or Tonyaward winning Broadway director Jerry Zaks are looses...
...surprise you that all of these people are alumni of Dartmouth College, home of 'drunken laggards.' The fact is that the women and men of Dartmouth are extremely talented and accomplished persons--in many cases as talented as Harvard students. Your paper's disparaging impressions of Dartmouth have no basis in truth...
Regardless, with the blue blood spilling on the turf, the alumni must have been proud. Nothing brings a tear to the eye like witnessing scores of overprivileged, drunken hooligans making fools out of themselves...