Word: frats
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...Tufts kids all that much,” Cappy remarks unexpectedly. “They don’t do a lot to help relations with the city.” Explaining one of the sources of this grievance, Cappy says he’s been thrown out of frat parties simply because he was a “townie.” “A lot of people here that I’ve met, they don’t like Somerville people,” Cappy says. Perhaps offering an inadvertent explanation, he recalls that...
Throughout the 1990s, it was mainly frat boys who generated headlines for waking up hazed and dazed in the ER--if they woke up at all. In recent years, however, some colleges have found a new cause for concern: young women who drink as dangerously as, if not more so than, their male classmates. This development invites a raft of knotty questions. Why are today's girls and young women, who are also getting arrested more and doing more drugs, behaving more like boys in so many reckless ways? Do they simply feel freer to be themselves? Or does...
...plucked, these students embark for far-away tropical beaches to live a life outside of their own—for a week. They will drink by the handle (seriously damage their bodies), compete in wet T-shirt contests (exploit their sexuality) and become people who they are not (frat boys and sorority girls from state schools). Best yet is that these Spring Break revelers can return to campus the following week slighter tanner and perhaps a bit less healthy than when they left but for the most part able to carry on with their routine Harvard persona...
...Gene do it in pictures? He could so he did, in "On the Town," "American in Paris" and "Singin? in the Rain." These big climactic numbers didn?t always fit the tone of the story that preceded them; it was like serving Cristal at the end of a frat-house toga party. Or, as Wollen says: "They were like little islands within the rest of the film. But they were very important to him because it was a way of showing the breadth and variety of the forms of dance." Kelly finally did a whole movie in the serioso mode...
...what door? No fraternity at Harvard currently has a house to call home. Along with its own fundraising efforts, the undergraduate chapter might be able to reap the benefits of Harvard’s extensive alumni network in order to attain something many think impossible: a frat house in the exclusive area around Harvard Square...