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...weren’t for the 41 percent annualized increase in admissions to Stillman Infirmary for alcohol poisoning over the period, Harvard’s policy of minimizing its own liability would be almost amusing. It would be just another campy game of cat and mouse between a certain “Animal House” portion of the student body and a puritanical administration. No one would get hurt, there would be no downside and the controversy over the demon drink would have no bearing on the realities of student safety or wellbeing...
...intoxicated that they needed to be sent to hospital. Those in other classes shouldn’t laugh—one percent of the upperclass students that year got their stomachs pumped, too. People get hospitalized at The Game and sexually assaulted in room parties thanks to alcohol. According to Heather Wilson at the Office of Sexual Assault Prevention and Response, alcohol is involved in cases of alleged sexual assault 90 percent of the time, and often has a great deal to do with why criminal facts of these cases are hard to find. It would be hard...
Harvard’s “war on booze” has been as effective as the “war on drugs.” Instead of reducing serious and dangerous drinking on campus, it seems to have increased the incidence of it by making alcohol all the more alluring. What seems to be borne out by the numbers from UHS and anecdotal evidence is that we have more drinking on campus done by less people. Harvard has been singularly effective in cracking down on responsible, social drinking and has utterly failed to reduce the amount of irresponsible...
...fair to the Harvard administration, Massachusetts state law does not make it easy to engender a more responsible, mature culture of alcohol use. The state is all too ready to clamp down on universities that do not make every effort to stop students drinking and provides ample precedent for students to sue universities for their own idiocy in alcohol consumption...
After signing a contract with a vendor last week to provide the alcohol at Saturday’s Harvard-Yale football game, the Undergraduate Council voted last night to share the tailgate cost with the House Committees (HoCos) and the Undergraduate Dean’s office at Yale...