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...matter what members of the news media and BPD may say, this year’s tailgate was the safest yet. Although alcohol admits to University Health Services (UHS) doubled this year, we agree with UHS director David S. Rosenthal ’59 in attributing this increase to the medical tent on the tailgate grounds. By making it much easier than two years ago for students to seek medical attention, UHS did its part to ensure that students who drank unsafely were cared for efficiently. Indeed, unlike two years ago there were no urgent, life-threatening cases of alcohol...
...sincerely hope that an alcohol education program will be in place next year. But alcohol abuse is a life and death issue. Lives are potentially at stake; a resolution to this situation cannot wait for the next academic cycle. As Harvard-Yale weekend’s abysmal track record shows, something must be done now, something beyond an e-mail from Dean Gross on the dangers of alcohol...
Though this problem has already taken a hold of the Class of 2008, alcohol-related incidents can still be prevented. According to UHS statistics, alcohol admits are particularly acute in September, but there are a significant number of freshmen admitted to Stillman Infirmary for alcohol poisoning throughout the year...
...relatively easy and cost-effective way to reduce dangerous drinking habits among freshmen would be to give them older role models. Currently, prefects are not allowed to be with their freshmen at a party at which alcohol is present. This is a misguided and ultimately harmful policy. W1ithout this policy, first-years who would drink anyway, and possibly engage in dangerous drinking, could have an older, responsible student to teach them safe party habits...
Almost every weekend in September and early October—and frequently since then—ambulances have shattered the early morning quiet with sirens blaring, rushing to take another drunken freshman to UHS. For many inexperienced first-years, these weekends are their first with ready access to alcohol. Thankfully no freshman has suffered permanent injury from alcohol this year, but the danger still looms, especially in the face of high-risk events such as Harvard-Yale. The College needs to make significant changes to encourage alcohol education and the Class of 2008 needs to see these changes...