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...stereotypes are only exacerbated by the stereotypes of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy. Some females remain skeptical even when Carson and the gang serve up a demitasse of glam and style for the clueless, beer-gutted straight male; it’s all good on television, but when their boyfriends and male friends start hogging the mirror, reality TV hits home. “I have this one guy friend who looks in the mirror more than anyone I know,” says Long. “Sometimes I wonder if he is doing it to overcompensate...
...Guinness Book of Records was started in 1955 by a beer company hoping to settle pub arguments. But the true genius behind the book was NORRIS MCWHIRTER, a former athlete and sports reporter who possessed one of the world's most prodigious memories for trivia. McWhirter, who died playing tennis in Wiltshire, England, last week at the age of 78, edited the book through 1986 and established the rigorous record-screening procedures that made it an authoritative guide to natural phenomena, sports records and dubious human endeavors, such as holding 109 live bees in your mouth...
Students familiar with the current, family-friendly incarnation of Springfest may be surprised to learn that, in an earlier form, the Springfest menu included alcohol. At the two earliest Springfests and again in 1998, the council provided free beer to student revelers...
...required the council to serve its beer in can form, in a small fenced in area, only during lunch. Students wishing to enter the drinking area were screened for age by a professional beverage authorization team. Each student would receive a maximum of two beers...
...battle over alcohol was only one of several conflicts faced by Springfest during its attempts to define itself. Would Springfest be a venue for tipsy students to party and traipse from booth to booth? Epps thought not, and 1998 was the last time beer was served at Springfest...