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...Emerging into the neon lights and raucous zinging of a pint-sized "Himalayan" roller coaster, I suddenly regretted wearing my pea-coat and wool slacks, an appropriate ensemble for my earlier Lit and Arts section, but out of place among the Harley Davidson insignia. My ears absorbed a multitude of noises and frequencies as I scanned the warehouse-sized Emporium: the smack of a baseball in the adjacent batting cage, electronic screams from a blood-and-guts video game, and the monotonous voice of a televised sports commentator. The hubub was mesmerizing and dizzying...
...annual Winter Carnival--the faculty unanimously voted in favor of the college's goal to make fraternities and sororities substantially coed, along with developing new social alternatives for its 4,300 undergraduates. Such news might not seem like a big deal at many colleges, but at Dartmouth, whose raucous frat life inspired the movie Animal House, it's the biggest drama since the 230-year-old school, tucked in an idyllic New Hampshire valley, went coed in 1972. Could there really be life beyond fraternities...
This reporter remembers a raucous University of Vermont crowd that swelled the Bright Center two years ago, and exhorted the 'Cats to victory with cries of "Go Cats Go!" Similarly, the Cornell crowd--and especially their band--usurped control of Bright when the Big Red visited Cambridge this year. You could say that hopes for Harvard school spirit weren't exactly...er, bright...
This reporter remembers a raucous University of Vermont crowd that swelled the Bright Center two years ago, and exhorted the Catamounts to victory with cries of "Go Cats Go!" Similarly, the Cornell crowd--and especially their band--usurped control of Bright when the Big Red visited Cambridge this year. You could say that hopes for Harvard school spirit weren't exactly, er, bright...
Cellucci latched on to teacher testing as arallying point in his raucous gubernatorial raceagainst Attorney General L. Scott Harshbarger...