Word: frats
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...find ourselves just days away from what will probably be one of the most memorable elections in any of our lives. What’s more is that we may be only moments away from electing our first black President and starting the process of cleaning up this Dartmouth-frat-house of a shit-show.Those of you who haven’t been in a coma probably are aware that Barack Obama has a pretty good chance of winning (knock on wood), but I want to take a moment to be the devil’s advocate (no conservative pun intended...
...frat house days: Cartoonist Garry Trudeau [Yale Alumni, '70] said he thinks a little-known fact about President George W. Bush '68's past - that his first mention in The New York Times occurred in 1967 when, as former president of the Delta Kappa Epsilon chapter at Yale, Bush defended the fraternity's practice of branding its pledges with a red-hot coat hanger - deserves more national attention ... On Sunday, Trudeau's cartoon "Doonesbury" featured fictional character Mark Slackmeyer explaining the President's position against current anti-torture legislation by revisiting a series of 1967 Yale Daily News articles that...
...Agathe in a traditional German dirndl while Ännchen, in the same scene, wears a form-fitting black blazer and a pair of department store jeans. The chorus of village maidens, bodices laced up and hair braided like so many St. Pauli Girls, drink lager out of disposable frat-party cups. A rustic wooden barrel that looks like it might have been used in the original 1821 production at the Konzerthaus in Berlin, shares space on the stage with a blue plastic trash bin that looks like it might have been purchased at the Home Depot in West Roxbury...
...game but not great) impresses his brothers by not only rattling off their names but also appending a goofy nickname to each. In two lightning strokes, W. provides a reference point for the Bush Administration's interrogation techniques of terrorist suspects and imagines an early example of Bush's frat-boy camaraderie, later visited with a bullying bluffness on the White House press corps...
...course. And Americans have spring break in Florida and frat culture in college that exposes many young people to binge drinking. In Britain what happens is they don't really seem to outgrow it. You get people in their 30s traveling to these places and getting drunk...