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...ticket poker tournaments (more than a million people tuned in for each ESPN telecast of the 2006 World Series of Poker). Schools throughout the country offer casino nights, using play money or raffles, as a way to keep kids from going to unsupervised parties, with their attendant risks of alcohol and drunk driving. And almost everywhere, parents gladly throw poker games for their teenage children, particularly the boys...
...acquaintance scoffed, as if to alert me to the social superiority of his school to mine, inquiring, “When was the last time someone actually died at a party?” Unsurprisingly, I was taken aback: he was using number of deaths by alcohol poisoning as an indicator of the quality of the social scene on his campus...
...contrast, last year’s game at Yale saw a relatively open alcohol policy, where liquor was carried and consumed under the protective, not skeptical eye of police and security officers. The usual mix of age groups at House Committee (HoCo) and student group tailgates meant that students were able to keep an eye on one another. Perhaps not coincidentally, the 2005 Game also marked a sharp drop in the number of students treated for alcohol-related problems (from 50 in 2004 at Harvard...
These one-day-a-year rules depart from the College’s normally sensible alcohol policies, which primarily emphasize safe drinking and specifically avoid punishing those who seek medical help when dangerously drunk. With BPD on the hunt for drunkards, however, dangerously inebriated students (and their friends) will be less likely to look for official help, compelled by the fear of expulsion from the tailgate or arrest. The harshness of the tailgate’s policy will only serve to erode trust between students and officials, thereby eliminating any safeguards against dangerous underage drinking...
...University Hall does have students’ safety in mind and would, if possible, opt for less stringent (and therefore safer) tailgate rules. But the College has had to formulate a policy that will pass muster under the watchful eye of Boston officials, whose permission is required to serve alcohol within Boston’s city limits. The BPD is taking a hard stance this year after its displeasure with the 2004 tailgate, when BPD Capt. William Evans called student behavior there “a disgrace.” But the BPD doesn’t seem to realize...