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Students returning to campus this fall found it more difficult than usual to quench their thirst for alcoholic beverages. The reason? Harvard’s calendar reform, which started classes a few weeks earlier than usual and left primary campus liquor providers C’est Bon Convenience and Doma Liquors caught off guard by the early return of students at the end of last month and unable to fully meet the demands of the student body. “Usually, Harvard students come here mid-September,” said Subash Khadka, an employee at Doma...
Guess they weren't ready for summer vacation to end either. Doma employee Subash Khadka estimates they order roughly double the amount of alcohol during the school year. Imagine their surprise when a slew of students in search of alcohol turned up before Labor Day. You don't have to graph any supply and demand curves to figure out we were hit by an temporary liquor shortage...
...much more accident-prone. A study released by Virginia Tech found that the risk of an accident increases 23 times. A casual test by Car and Driver magazine, performed in actual cars, found that drivers who were texting reacted far more slowly than when under the influence of alcohol...
...Admittedly, changing attitudes about phone use may be harder than stopping drunk drivers. Alcohol is already illegal for drivers under 21 and was widely known to impair reflexes since long before the emergence of the automobile. Text messaging, on the other hand, is not only relatively new and fashionable but also marketed for its convenience. Yet the fact that the dangers of texting while driving are not always clear provides the most compelling reason why an aggressive informational campaign to expose them is necessary...
...beer o'clock: the time of day when it is acceptable or customary to start drinking alcohol...