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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Happy Hacker's holiday wish list, I'd just as soon get a singing telegram, two pound bag of caramel popcorn, or a candy cane. Of course, a laserprinter under the Christmas tree wouldn't be so bad either...
Wayne Duvall, compiler of the results for Playboy, explained that the researchers went to a cross-section of schools in each state. There they asked students to list the schools, besides their own, that they thought partied the most. Then the schools most often mentioned were examined for party atmosphere and students known to be very "socially active" at those schools were tracked down. Candid, anonymous remarks by these students were the basis for the final selections...
...Nadeau, President of both the TerraceEating Club at Princeton and that school'sInter-Club Council was similarly displeased at hisschool's omission from the list. "Personally, I'mshocked. I stop working Thursday morning and don'tstart again until Monday right before class. Maybethat's just me, but how can I compete against aschool like UMass-Amherst where 40,000 do the samething...
Reaction at Harvard was varied. Evan Mandery'89, former Social Committee chairman of theUndergraduate Council said "I'm not all that upsetto not be included on a party list that MIT is on.That survey doesn't sound very scientific and Ithink it's probably just wrong...
However, the present chairman of the UC'sSocial Committee, Michael Goldenberg '88, sawHarvard's omission from the list of revellers asproof of a disturbing problem. "I would have beenshocked if we were on the list, and if anything,it's all the more indicative of the amount of helpwe need. Campus-wide, everything is completelylacking here...