Four Loko Does Its Job With Efficiency and Economy, Students SayDon Troopfrom the Chronicle It’s Friday night in this steep-hilled college town, and if anyone needs an excuse to party, here are two: In 30 minutes the Mountaineers football team will kick off against the UConn Huskies in East Hartford, Conn., and tonight begins the three-day Halloween weekend. A few blocks from the West Virginia University campus, young people crowd the aisles of Ashebrooke Liquor Outlet, an airy shop that is popular among students. One rack in the chilled-beverage cooler is nearly empty, the one that is usually filled with 23.5-ounce cans of Four Loko, a fruity malt beverage that combines the caffeine of two cups of coffee with the buzz factor of four to six beers. “That’s what Read more
Starr Center Director Goodheart Launches "New York Times" Online Series on America’s Civil War
CHESTERTOWN—Adam Goodheart, Hodson Trust-Griswold Director of the C.V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience, will offer glimpses back to our nation’s most tumultuous time in a new online history column for the New York Times that launched Monday, November 1. His articles are part of a series entitled “Disunion,” marking the sesquicentennial of the Civil War. Goodheart’s contributions will recount what was happening on specific days 150 years ago. The first installment, “The Last Ordinary Day,” sets the stage for Lincoln’s election as the nation’s 16th president: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/31/the-last-ordinary-day Washington College students James Schelberg ’12 and Kathy Thornton ’13 are contributing research to the Times’ Read more
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