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College Crap: Cruzin Cooler, Beer Hammer and Shot Gun Liquor Pump

College Crap: Cruzin Cooler, Beer Hammer and Shot Gun Liquor Pump

In every installment of College Crap, we'll explore super useful, can't-live-without products that will make your college experience that much more enriching.

 

Today we’re tackling the creative world of alcohol innovations. Because it’s just not as satisfying to sit back and relax with a drink if it didn’t somehow involve a completely unnecessa...

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5 Drinking Myths That Can Kill You

5 Drinking Myths That Can Kill You

 As New Year's Eve approaches, sh*t's gonna get crazy. We all know this. Whether you're at a sweet party in Hollywood scoring in on your alcohol ticket, or you're downing those tiny glasses of champagne at a family party to--well, deal with being with your family, alcohol consumption certainly rises at the end of the year.

 

In an effort to keep...

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Study Finds Smart Students More Likely to Develop an Alcohol Problem

Study Finds Smart Students More Likely to Develop an Alcohol Problem

If you’re in the Ivy League, be afraid; a new study has found that highly intelligent students have a greater risk of developing an alcohol abuse problem than their intellectually inferior [READ: brainless] peers.

 

According to Times UK, British researchers have found a loose connection between a “high childhood IQ and an adult enthusiasm for a...

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Five Essentials for the Average College Male in an Economy Gone Wild

Five Essentials for the Average College Male in an Economy Gone Wild

Good afternoon, my fellow average Joes. Below I have provided you all with a list of essentials to get yourself by the upcoming months.

 

1.) Alcohol- This is obvious for college students, but let me stress the importance of getting the right drinks. You can no longer afford Guinness or any other imported beer. It's time to go back to the basics...

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Latest comment by Anonymous: now i'm icked out by my microwave thanks

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Daily Dirt: All the News We Missed

Daily Dirt: All the News We Missed

Uncoached reported on an 89-year-old Ohio woman who was arrested for petty theft after refusing to give back a football to some children.

 

Busted Coverage revealed that West Texas A&M cheerleaders have some pretty interesting warm-up routines.

 

Banned In Hollywood provided everyone with the official Hump Day visual.

 

Mad Atoms declared, “Alco...

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Alcohol Shrinks Your Brain! A Virginia Tech Student Shares The Sad But True News

Alcohol Shrinks Your Brain! A Virginia Tech Student Shares The Sad But True News

So apparently, drinking affects your brain.  Sorry to break the news but the consumption of alcohol can reduce your brain size, according to some smart people in the Archives of Neurology.


Even though brain shrinkage is inevitable with age, consuming alcohol will affect your brain even more and could possibly influence dementia. According to t...

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Latest comment by Anonymous: i wish i didn't know this

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8 Movie Characters Who Would Be Perfect as Yale's New Alcohol and Substance Abuse Director

8 Movie Characters Who Would Be Perfect as Yale's New Alcohol and Substance Abuse Director

By fall 2009, Yale hopes to hire their first-ever director of alcohol and substance abuse initiatives director.

 

According to administrators, the AASAI director will be tasked with raising awareness of substance abuse on campus and providing resources/information to the student body, not enforcing Yale’s alcohol and drug laws.

 

In other words,...

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ShotPak: Perfect Sized Alcohol For Any Event

ShotPak: Perfect Sized Alcohol For Any Event

Critics call it an alcoholic candy bar. Mmm, sounds good to me.
 

ShotPak is a fun shot-sized alcohol line that comes Str8UP (vodka, whiskey, tequila and rum) or as delicious flavors like Kamikaze, Lemon Drop and Sour Apple. The pouch packaging, which allows it to be “the shot…without the glass!” is reminiscent of the Capri Suns of my childhood...

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Using the Truth to Cut College Drinking?

Using the Truth to Cut College Drinking?

Many universities have tried everything to reduce drinking on college campuses.
 

From scare tactics to strictness, it seems like nothing really works to curb the alcoholic tendencies of students. However, University of Virginia thinks they may have found the solution: the truth.
 

A recent study found that exposing students at the university to...

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Do Beer and College Sports Belong Together?

Do Beer and College Sports Belong Together?

NCAA claims their hands are tied. Despite pressure to ban beer ads during NCAA games, the organization has decided to let their current policy stand.
 

The NCAA was feeling the heat after college presidents called the beer ads during this year’s basketball tournament “embarrassingly prominent.”
 

But unsurprisingly (we are talking about more mo...

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Latest comment by Anonymous: the guy in that picture is wearing a seattle seahawks jersey...which, last time i checked, is a professional team and not a college one. oops?

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When To Dump A Frat Boy...

When To Dump A Frat Boy...

The rules of dating are blurred upon entering college. Whether you’re dating a high school sweetheart from back home or a frat boy on campus – things become infinitely more complicated when college is thrown into the mix.

Upon arrival on campus, all freshman girls are after the alpha males of campus and they typically find that in the frat guy...

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Latest comment by Anonymous: @ Anonymous:
Your atrocious spelling and low attention span leads me to believe that you are indeed the girlfriend of a frat boy.

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Eight Great: Boxed Wines For The Truly Classy

Eight Great: Boxed Wines For The Truly Classy

Having emerged from the college bubble of all-night boozefests, I was surprised to read that Americans are actually drinking less alcohol than 50 years ago. Researchers go on to report that we’re drinking less beer, but more wine.
 

For college students wine might seem out of their price range while beer is a cheaper, more drinking-game-conduci...

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Latest comment by Anonymous: seriously, who the **** drinks boxed wine at a wild party? laaaame.

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Highbrow Promos Make Alcoholism Classy

Highbrow Promos Make Alcoholism Classy

Shia LeBeouf may have just been arrested for a DUI, but that doesn't stop us from finding ways to promote the finer points of alcohol. In recent years, producers of alcoholic beverages have done everything from sponsoring cultural events to producing limited edition bottles for a cause. Take a look at some reasons why taking a dip into lush have...

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UT Fraternity To Pay $4.2M for Death of Boy

UT Fraternity To Pay $4.2M for Death of Boy

The family of Phanta "Jack" Phoummarath, a University of Texas at Austin student who died after a fraternity binge-drinking party, decided to settle their lawsuit against the fraternity and Austin chapters for $4.2 million.

Phoummarath, 18, was a freshman at UT when he pledged for Lambda Phi Epsilon and attended their binge-drinking party, wher...

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Study Shows Beer Can't Get You Drunk

Study Shows Beer Can't Get You Drunk

The study, done by Dr. Leon A. Greenberg, professor of physiology at Yale University, proves that beer can’t get you drunk. According to his research, the amount of beer needed to get you drunk is more than your stomach can hold. Also, the rate at which beer is eliminated in the body is faster than that people can consume.

 

We should probably m...

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Latest comment by Anonymous: It is true you cant get drunk with beer, I can solve triple integrals after drinking 10 beers

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Beer Pong: Not Compatible With Life

Beer Pong: Not Compatible With Life

College students are dying, not by natural causes, random acts of violence, or under-reported epidemics – college students are dying, at growing rates, because of alcohol poisoning.

 Minnesota-born biochemistry major, Jenna Foellmi, had such a high blood-alcohol level that the coroner only reported it as “not compatible with life.” Her blood w...

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Americans Are #1 in Substance Abuse

Americans Are #1 in Substance Abuse

Despite droves of college students running off to Amsterdam to smoke pot, the United States, with all its strict drug laws in tow, still manages to lead the global race to the top of the substance abuse list.


 

Researchers of the World Health Organization (WHO) found some amazing statistics concerning Americans consumption of blow and other hea...

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Latest comment by Anonymous: Democracy and coke...

Wow!

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Should You Drink With Your Parents?

Should You Drink With Your Parents?

Forget the upcoming election and global environmental concerns and listen up to something that affects all college students, alcohol consumption. An article in last week's Time Magazine, "Should You Drink with Your Kids?" reported that although more students on college campuses are abstaining from alcohol use, there are more alcohol-related crim...

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Latest comment by Anonymous: I'd have to agree.. since I've started drinking wine with my parents, I'm def much less of a beligerant drunk.

whos the stud in the pic.. mmm

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The Campus Drink: Signature Cocktails

The Campus Drink: Signature Cocktails
Every campus is unique, but some have very specific tastes when it comes to drinking. If you hang out with the party crowd from any of these campuses, you will be drinking the "campus drink" at some point in the evening. I got the low-down on the "signature" drinks or cocktails at some of the hottest campuses.

As a representative of the UW-Mad

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Latest comment by Anonymous: http://www.edhardy-zone.com/Ed-Hardy-T-Shirts-.html

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Eight Great Summer Drinking Games

Eight Great Summer Drinking Games
Contributed by the umdblogger.

1. Quincy
By far, the best drinking game you've never heard of, and my personal favorite. I've heard rumors that it was started at Michigan, and I have a friend who swears it began at NYU, but either way, you should be playing this game. A mix between quarters and flip cup, once you play Quincy you won't be able

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Latest comment by Anonymous: my brother and i always play this game called date ape. usually he goes off for a while and then after a while, girls start passing out all over the place. i think it is called date ape because we have to pick them up and br

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