Word: takings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...There was a crowd of people there," she says, "a lot of people wanted to take him to [University Health Services], but we didn't want to get him in trouble...
...study was the first to evaluate so-called "secondary binge effects"--the consequences of drinking born by students who do not, themselves, drink. These effects include everything from the sober roommate who stays up all night take care of the drunk roommate to the woman who is sexually assaulted by an intoxicated acquaintance...
...take on it," he says, "is that they want to keep people from searching far and wide for alcohol and getting into dangerous situations.... If there's a problem with someone drinking, then all the support resources are right here, instead of someone getting drunk at some frat party and passing out in the basement...
...worth sharing. His dispatches, some handwritten and snail-mailed (Internet cafes are evidently not part of the standard equipment at basic training), are arriving irregularly. Here is the first, and others will be posted as they arrive. I was expecting something, well, more paternalistic. An Army that would take me off the bus with nothing but the clothes on my back, the tar in my lungs and the spare tire around my middle. Take me, mold me, whip me into shape, and, best of all, outfit me with lots of free stuff, everything in tough Army olive and built...
...sand. Dad, who shares absolutely none of my excitement about this, has a story about a fellow grunt who thought he was Napoleon, was always standing on a hill, surveying his men, when everybody else was running in the heat. Though I don't expect today's Army to take that sort of thing from volunteers...