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...membership. Some 18 states have passed laws forbidding dangerous or degrading hazing, and colleges and Greek societies have added their own toughened antihazing regulations. To comply with 21-or-over liquor laws already adopted in 38 states, many campuses require notification of college authorities plus the guarantee of a sober, drinking-age bartender for any booze party. But, admits Kaye Howe, vice chancellor for academic services at Colorado, "there are not enough police in the world for us to control the Greeks...
Lobbyists cannot afford to rely solely on well-reasoned arguments and sober facts and figures to make their case. In the scramble to win a hearing, they have developed all manner of stratagems designed to ingratiate themselves and collect IOUs...
Which is not to say the audience doesn't eat it up--provided they're sober enough to follow. This is the stuff of which Pudding shows are made. What "Between the Sheiks" has also got, though, is a collection of uniformly well-developed characters: there are virtually no stars (as written), and yet almost everyone has a chance to shine...
...Sire) by the Replacements: This is the first major-label outing for the group that holds the world record for playing the most consecutive concerts without stopping to sober up. It sounds like the boys laid off the hard stuff when they made this disc, and their new-found and short-lived temperance allows them to write excellent songs which use Paul Westerberg's off-key voice to its fullest potential. But the Replacements still know how to have fun: as of recent live gigs, guitarist Bob Stinson has been playing encores nude. Help support these guys' habit...
...many, seeing friends and drinking--not necessarily in that order--constitutes The Game. But for the two football squads involved and those diehard fans sober enough to focus on the field, The Game is serious business...