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...meal shared by with three older men and one aging frat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paul Slansky's Weekly Index of the News | 1/9/2009 | See Source »

...address some of the concerns over "cheating": on tasks involving working memory and impulsivity, stimulants had a leveling effect, allowing below-average performers to catch up to their peers, not dominate them. According to Farah, the typical student user is actually not the overachieving brainiac but a "white male frat brother with a B average...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Popping Smart Pills: The Case for Cognitive Enhancement | 1/6/2009 | See Source »

...French Quarter life; I hesitate to call it "culture," because the sheer number of dead-drunk people gets depressing quickly. In fact, if you want to turn yourself off liquor for good, take a slow walk down Bourbon Street on a Saturday night. You'll see everyone from stumbling frat boys to gassed grannies slurping and burping the ubiquitous hurricane - the fruity rum concoction supposedly invented in New Orleans during World War II. But if you're going to drink, I'd recommend the chocolatey, dangerously drinkable local brew called Abita Turbodog. Turbodog is more potent than Abita's other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Getting It On in the Big Easy | 11/18/2008 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Andrew F. Nunnelly, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: McCain as President: Do Fewer Civil Liberties Mean Better Art? | 10/31/2008 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: W.: The Official Film Guide | 10/21/2008 | See Source »

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