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...photos became more disturbing, such as one of severed limbs. Walker said students were initially “very amiable characters” but became increasingly “pendulum-like in their emotions.” The students proved to be “sort of punch-drunk giddy on sleep deprivation,” he added. All but one of the Harvard students, Walker said, reported pulling an all-nighter—or regularly doing so. Paul Barreira, director of behavioral health and academic counseling at University Health Services, said most college students get less sleep than...
...skirts, right? How will we begin to attack the patriarchy (again, some more) if we can’t start with girls who derive sexual pleasure from dressing to attract men? And, perhaps the greatest plus of all: what’s funnier than the Saturday night parade of drunk idiots of any and all genders in stupid clothes trying to convince themselves they’re having a good time—but in costume! Clearly, complexities abound. To be fair, Times writer Stephanie Rosenbloom did acknowledge that the holiday dubbed “Dress-Like-A-Whore Day?...
...seem more arbitrary than the sequence in which we and our siblings pop out of the womb. Maybe it's your genes that make you a gifted athlete, your training that makes you an accomplished actress, an accident of brain chemistry that makes you a drunk instead of a President. But in family after family, case study after case study, the simple roll of the birth-date dice has an odd and arbitrary power...
...Burmese dissenters, or even a serious group of concerned Americans, had voiced its desire to march in the parade. After all, they wouldn’t be any fun. Who wants to deal with real issues during a parade? Oktoberfest is supposed to be about jollity and getting drunk. After all, if anyone really wants to protest, they can set up a soapbox in the square and hand out fliers—a far more effective and publicly acceptable way of voicing serious concerns about the world...
...campaign for lower textbook costs for low-income students or to persuade the University to adopt more socially responsible investment policies. Perhaps in the future, the UC will save its political capital for campus advocacy that matters rather than petty fights over students’ rights to get drunk for free...