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...Let’s just say things were a lot looser before AIDS.” I’ll leave it at that. Drinking Age Changed to 21 (1984) This was undeniably devastating, but there is a bright side: it makes the really old freshmen seem popular instead of just really creepy. World Wide Web (1991) The arrival of the Internet Age provides relief for blue-balled males (and females?) on Friday nights. Lorena Bobbatt Trial (1993) Remember when that crazy lady castrated her husband? Guys locked themselves in their rooms for weeks. Soulja Boy (2007) This song...
...maybe someday, as one of those sign-wavers floors below. But hanging out with celebrities is so twentieth century. Culture today values actually being a celebrity yourself. Shows that depict the “real lives” of young people—like The Hills or the phenomenally popular Gossip Girl—present viewers with a more palpable alternative to their own life. You might not be an Upper East Side socialite, but maybe you’ve sat next to one on an airplane (or in section...
...maintain summer storage. One of the UC’s sweetest successes during its first five years was the addition of chocolate milk to dining hall machines. Alas, it also had to deal with drier administrative issues like Ad Board and calendar reform. In 1995, the UC began popular presidential elections, and students voiced their desire for more on-campus comforts. For example, the administration of Beth A. Stewart ’00 saw the start of Fly-By and cable in house common rooms. Since spinning off the planning of campus social events to the newly created College Events...
...role for the freshman Senator from Illinois and was invaluable in helping him learn the arcane folkways of the Capitol. Obama once told me, "My chief of staff in the Senate, Pete Rouse, Tom Daschle's old chief of staff, is as well connected and well known and as popular and as smart and savvy a person as there is on Capitol Hill...
...jumped from 200 to 100,000. Last month, Notchi only had seven days in which he did not appear on Japanese television. (This time last year, he only had seven days of work booked - total.) And he's winning some big fans. When Notchi met Will Smith on a popular afternoon TV show in August, Smith told him, "I will vote...