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Unfortunately, this year Harvard’s bigwigs are running some blocking against its students’ efforts for a great, err, play. With The Game back in Boston—the pub capital of the country, natch—strict ID enforcement and bloated alcohol fees will hinder Crimson efforts to score on Eli tight ends. Alas, the most action we’ll be seeing that weekend is the homoerotic tackling on the field...
Let’s be clear: having more fun (sometimes directly proportional to the amount of beer ingested) is not worth the death of anyone from alcohol poisoning. But those drinking puritans, hailing from Boston and University Hall alike, who claim that their draconian new policies towards underage student drinking at the Game (and across campus) will help to prevent alcohol poisoning may have had a few too many themselves. The keg ban in 2002 only made many tailgates switch to serving hard alcohol—a far more dangerous brew than anything Harpoon can cook up. Renewing...
Moreover, it’s extremely doubtful that the Boston Police will have a real impact in curtailing underage drinking, even if they banned tailgates altogether. Not allowing students to bring alcohol to the Game and restricting their access to it at the tailgates means they’ll just get toasted before trekking across the river. You can’t stop students from drinking, period...
...more reasonable approach to drinking at the Game would be to outlaw large quantities of hard alcohol and legalize kegs. If the city and the College don’t trust students to drink responsibly, they should at least take steps to ban the most dangerous types of alcohol. The College should also help HoCos and other organizations (from Harvard and Yale) obtain the requisite licenses, in order to promote a vibrant, communal tailgate environment in which students will self-regulate their own drinking. If students eschew boring and keg-less tailgates in favor of pre-gaming—drinking...
Like so many others before him, alcohol made the unhappy customer speak the truth. We don’t give anything back. And when the whole world hates us, why the hell should...