Word: drunks
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...does not always practice them. He works obsessively but just as easily becomes a raucous, tobacco-chewing, beer-swigging good ole boy. A yachtsman who defended the America's Cup in 1977 and won the title Captain Outrageous, Turner showed up at a victory press conference roaring drunk and tugging at a bottle of aquavit. During a conference on arms control in Atlanta early this month, Turner dined with the likes of Jimmy Carter and Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin. When the conversation began to bore Turner, he produced a tiny TV from his pocket, set the device on the table...
...when the teens reported that they thought alcohol, unlike tobacco and other drugs, was largely harmless, that binge drinking among their peers was habitual, and that drinking enough to pass out was funny. But the officials were perhaps most displeased to hear that the place kids most often got drunk was their own or their friends' homes and that some parents either provided alcohol or looked the other way if teens brought it to drink in the backyard or basement...
...agree with the author that the administration could learn a lot from HRSFA—Harvard students need unique orginzations with interesting activities, not more generic social activities where getting drunk is mistaken for having...
Rachel herself agrees that witnessing Dunster residents at their worst will help her in college to “be mature enough to handle the things that college students. just can’t handle yet.” Whether running into drunk fans at a hockey game, watching students get sloshed at the Harvard-Yale tailgate, or seeing a friend dance on a tabletop and take her clothes off, Rachel has had, as she explains, “experiences that other kids might age might have never been able to go through...
Animal House may have premiered in 1978, but college students have been fat, drunk, and stupid for ages. Even Harvard is not immune to the American tradition of collegiate binge drinking...