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Women carry those chirpy mantras with them to college. "They are no longer confined by the stereotypical notions of femininity," says Devon Jersild, a journalist who talked with college-age women for her book Happy Hours: Alcohol in a Woman's Life. "They associate drinking with power, and they think that if they drink like a guy, they will be like a guy." At the University of Colorado at Boulder, where frequent binge drinking among women rose 67% between 1993 and 2000, women routinely brag of matching men in alcohol consumption. Sarah, 21, describes a "keg stand"--two friends suspend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Women On A Binge | 4/1/2002 | See Source »

...society. They are dumped into a society of their peers, whose habitats are the halls and classrooms of their schools, the teen-age canteens, the corner drugstore, the automobile." That is where teen-agers get their tastes and values. "They're in cahoots now," says Columbia Psychologist Arthur Jersild...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Students: On the Fringe of a Golden Era | 1/29/1965 | See Source »

...HAROLD JERSILD...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 2, 1949 | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

...Corey report met with praise, and with some apprehension. Professor Arthur T. Jersild of Teachers College liked the report's "emphasis on . . . [the] many kinds of ability. . . . An I.Q. of 200 is useless if it is fettered by archaic habits of thought." But he raised a point which had already bothered the committee, "the hazards to the individual of being singled out as an outstandingly able person," and added a personal misgiving: "whether a roster of elite human beings . . . is wholesome and wise from a democratic point of view...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Golden Lads & Lasses | 12/2/1946 | See Source »

Docket 110 is the Sargent Club (Alpern, Rotberg) versus the Pitney Club (Jersild). The meeting will be at 40 Kirkland Street with W. F. Reardon 3L as chief justice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Graduate Schools | 1/18/1929 | See Source »

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