Virtually all campuses schedule movies, concerts, athletic events and celebrity lectures; activities fees allow most undergraduates to form ski clubs or hold Renaissance fairs, dances and juggling marathons.
Over the last decade, alpine ski racers have gotten their fair share of media coverage, thanks to the gold medals won by Bode Miller, Julia Mancuso, Ted Ligety, and Lindsay Vonn, the 2010 AP Female Athlete of the Year (and recent Sharon Stone impersonator).
As a ski journalist I have met my fair share of Peter Pans, I may even have been a Peta myself.
Like many keen skiers, I have skied off piste a fair bit over the years, with skilled friends and almost always, of course, with a guide.
FAIR ISLE sweaters are moving from ski chalets to city chic.
Making the transition from regular skier to backcountry ski tour adventurer requires new techniques, equipment and a fair amount of knowledge of snow and safety.
Last week, school authorities in Belgium scrapped ski trips to Austrian resorts and a Belgian tourism trade fair canceled an invitation to a northern Austrian resort, Scharding.
We're going to lose a generation of ski jumpers if we wait until 2014, and it's not fair to these athletes".
(The Fair Isle knitting technique, though co-opted into 1980s ski bunny fashion, is named after a small island in the north of Scotland and originally gained popularity in England).
Also during the fair, Memorial Stadium hosted the Ringling Brothers Circus, Tommy Bartlett's Water Ski Sky and Stage Show, Roy Rogers and Dale Evans Western Showw, and an appearance by evangelist Billy Graham.
