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...saying that over 70 percent of students nationwide think their peers drink more than they actually do. At schools where people drank an average of four drinks when they “partied,” according to the study, 37 percent of students reported a belief that their peers?? drank an average of five to six drinks, and 34.9 percent overestimated to the tune of seven drinks...
Others found their peers?? lethargy disconcerting...
...support the teams to which we claim allegiance? How might we save ourselves the embarrassment of being one of the few dozen students to be outnumbered by our Cornell counterparts come next hockey season, or one of the smattering of fans drunkenly berated by our Brown “peers?? at an upcoming women’s water polo contest...
...however, this impressive biography still doesn’t make John Lithgow as satisfying a speaker as Kofi Annan or another powerful political luminary. Fair enough. But unless the role of a Commencement speaker is merely to provide another name for Harvard students to reference in passing to their peers??and it is not—we are sure Lithgow will be a fine speaker. While speeches full of pleasantries and generalizations from well-known politicians may be the only thing that can excite some students and parents, we expect the special flair that Lithgow, a professional actor...
According to the study, girls and boys with BMIs between the 50th and 74th percentiles were five times more likely than their thinner peers??children who had a BMI that fell below the 50th percentile—to become overweight later in life...