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...particularly pernicious sign of the times is a phenomenon called frontloading, in which students drink alcohol, usually hard liquor, in private before attending a social event. "It's difficult to get alcohol when you're out because of the age law," explains Seph McKenna, a junior who lives in a substance-free dorm at Boston College. "So people say, 'I'd better be lubricated before I go out."' When writer Christopher Buckley gave the keynote address at the annual evening banquet of the Yale Daily News last month, he was so outraged by the boorish behavior of audience members, many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Higher Education: Crocked on Campus | 12/19/1994 | See Source »

...soon as I left I walked over the liquor store," he says. "I had a beer, then I fell asleep...

Author: By Deborah Yeh, | Title: A Mad Night Of Writing Resumes | 12/17/1994 | See Source »

John Vargos, director of the task force, said that one program has enlisted local bars and liquor stores in the fight against substance abuse...

Author: By Nicholas A. Stoller, | Title: Teen Drug Abuse on Rise in Cambridge | 12/13/1994 | See Source »

...most surprising form of racism in advertising goes beyond malt liquor commercials on television and cigarette advertisements in the print media. The fast food industry, purveyors of a far less ominous product, employ advertising tactics that focus more on race than most would find tasteful...

Author: By Daniel Altman, | Title: Hate With Pickles | 12/5/1994 | See Source »

...pragmatism with choruses of Amazing Grace. He does better with white business leaders ("What do you think I've been doing on these corporate boards all these years?"), who agree to finance an ad campaign against the deal once they realize they could lose their best customers for liquor, cigarettes and athletic shoes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Extraterrestrial Segregationists | 11/21/1994 | See Source »

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