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Beer Companies Fight To Keep You Drunk In Struggling Economy

Beer Companies Fight To Keep You Drunk In Struggling Economy

Many companies have felt the crushing effects of the failing economy. Washington Mutual, Yahoo, Clear Channel and even Saks have taken big hits in recent months and they’re just a drop in the proverbial bucket.

 

Okay, so perhaps Saks’ financial crisis doesn’t quite hit close to home. But what happens when the economy does affect something near ...

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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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The Most Obvious Cases of Underage Drinking

The Most Obvious Cases of Underage Drinking

Everybody loves beer, but some people start a little earlier...

Latest comment by Anonymous: Are these people crazy! why in the world would someone do that to a child or baby.

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Rice Students Make Anti-Aging Beer... Wow

Rice Students Make Anti-Aging Beer... Wow

Despite what the traditionalists might have to say about baseball, I think we all know that beer drinking is America’s favorite pastime. You can drink it no matter the weather, you don’t need to buy tickets, and it’s a bipartisan drink that you can enjoy with your republican friends. Now, a bunch of Rice University students are trying to make it...

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Latest comment by Anonymous: I would bathe in this beer if I could.

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UCI Election 3: Guy at Pub Gives Real View of Irvine Student

UCI Election 3: Guy at Pub Gives Real View of Irvine Student

This guy had a beer, had an elightment and gave into the Obama believers.

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Miami University Cabrewing This Past Weekend

Miami University Cabrewing This Past Weekend

An afternoon spent floating and drinking beer on a river in Brookville, Indiana

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9-0-(Way Older Then 16)-2-1-0

9-0-(Way Older Then 16)-2-1-0

As I sit here watching an episode of the new 90210 I am struck with a thought, why is it that all shows about teenagers have twenty something year old actors playing teens? All of the “teenagers” are old enough to have degrees from 4 year universities.

 

For instance Naomi Clark played by Annalynne McCord is 22 years old, that’s about 6 years ol...

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Latest comment by Anonymous: eh, this is always true on teen soaps. nobody wants to watch a show of ugly people, it's the truth.

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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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When Beer Attacks...

When Beer Attacks...

Austin's own apocalyptic beer fridge. When the end of the world comes...be inebriated.

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Writer Believes Professional Success Eludes Women Because It's Harder for Them to Ask, "Do You Want to Grab a Beer?"

Writer Believes Professional Success Eludes Women Because It's Harder for Them to Ask, "Do You Want to Grab a Beer?"

 

 

 


 

According to Hannah Seligson, who blames her professional failures on her gender, while academia is meritocracy, the workplace is unnatural and hostile to women.

 

Falling prey to the usual traps of sexism, she argues that women often find less professional success because they get sensitive about criticism, are afraid to ask for ...

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Pro Beer Pong Players Muse About The Game

Pro Beer Pong Players Muse About The Game

In yet another attempt to be "in" with the college demographic, Time Magazine has another article about underage drinking among college and high school students in their latest issue. This time, they focus squarely on beer pong (AKA Beirut). 

 

Although I couldn't find the article itself online, I did stumble across a sweet video about "professi...

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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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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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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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Must-Read Not News Stories From FARK

Must-Read Not News Stories From FARK

• Apparently, being a horrible dancer is a crime. Police arrested 18-year-old Jeffery G. Holm Jr. after noticing his strange dance movements at a city festival.


• An Australian man convicted of his seventh drunk driving charge has been banned from buying or even holding a beer for 12 months. This might be a struggle for him considering he was s...

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Latest comment by Anonymous: Now this is just lazy... reporting on another site's user generated content in order to drive traffic to your own site. Why, if I felt I had been duped in such a way....

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Fresh Cream: All the News We Missed

Fresh Cream: All the News We Missed

College Candy’s University of Wisconsin blogger put together an exhaustive list of guys women should never, ever date.

 

The Pre Req reported on a Tufts University research project that just might lead to a robot apocalypse.

 

TheDirty sent an open letter to ESPN’s Erin Andrews, a University of Florida alum, requesting that she respond to dispar...

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Latest comment by aquamarine: I am never going to an amusement park again!

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Top 5 Must-Have iPhone Apps For Students

Top 5 Must-Have iPhone Apps For Students

Today is the day! The new 3G iPhone and the hotly anticipated 2.0 update are finally here, and life is finally complete (for us Apple addicts). Thank you, Mr. Steve Jobs.

 

As part of the new firmware update, Apple has introduced an official applications store that allows users to download new programs right onto their iPhones and iPod Touches.

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Latest comment by Anonymous: You should add Cram, the app allows you study on your iPhone with flashcards and multiple choice tests. http://www.simpleleap.com/cram/iphone.htm

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Calling All College Bands and Musicians

Calling All College Bands and Musicians

Dear Music Fans and Foes,

  

CollegeOTR.com will now officially feature more than just news and campus shenanigans, it will become a platform for up-and-coming college music. I know you guys are out there creating something more valuable than the radio's mainstream top 40.

 

This is not just for current college bands, musicians, and singers, but...

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Ten Ideas for the 4th of July Beer Olympics

Ten Ideas for the 4th of July Beer Olympics

Fourth of July includes two very important ingredients – a big barbeque bash and fireworks. But as all college students know, there’s one component to barbeques that make them that much sweeter and that’s beer. So for all you Beerfest fans out there, dust off the Solo cups and here are 10 ideas for the perfect way to celebrate this great natio...

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Latest comment by Anonymous: We did the Das Boot chug with a massive2 liter U.S. drinking team beer boot. Doesn't get any more Patriotic than that...

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