Word: drunks
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What the staff calls a "respected tradition" is a shameful and unhealthy history of collegiate binge drinking. Drinking in excess negatively impacts many undergraduates by forcing them to cope with dangerously drunk individuals. Moreover, too many students assume alcohol is essential for a fulfilling social life--a myth as false as it is stigmatizing to those who choose for a variety of reasons not to drink...
However, the administration is wrong to pursue an overly strict alcohol policy. Students who drink responsibly help to combat the idea that you must be drunk to have fun, as well as demonstrate the healthy consumption of alcohol. In doing so, they inject some much-needed maturity into the community. Administrators who really cared about the role of alcohol on campus would respect, not hound, responsible drinkers--whatever their...
...Rugby. The world's most brutal game, you've gotta be drunk to play. And even then it's still tough...
...Carrying the drunk guy home. The final event in the Drinker's Decathlon, this challenging assignment goes to the proverbial "last man standing...
Each face carries a grudge. The men mutter and growl and get fall-down drunk. The women wheedle and whine. Or they knit furiously, like Lindsay Duncan in Grown-Ups, as if rehearsing to put her unloving husband's eyes out. Or they throw insults like darts. "Drop dead!" shouts the pretentious Beverly (Steadman) at her husband in Abigail's Party (1977); two minutes later, he does. The hate-filled wife in Home Sweet Home is an adulterer, but infidelity with her husband's best friend gives the woman no more pleasure than anything else in her sorry life. There...