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...administration at the insistence of the Boston police seems prepared to institute even further restrictions on alcohol consumption at the 2004 rendition of The Game...
Like all other restrictions, this will do virtually nothing to curb the amount of alcohol consumed during Harvard-Yale weekend. Sure, underage students might not be allowed to walk up to House U-Hauls and grab a frosty brew or a cup of some Tropicana Twister-and-rum concoction. Instead, they’ll just binge drink in their rooms at 10 a.m., or carry around a flask full of some noxious liquor that even a homeless alcoholic wouldn’t drink...
What these restrictions will do is limit the amount of “soft” alcoholic beverages consumed at the tailgate even further, because underage fans will refrain from carrying around easily distinguishable cans and bottles of beer in favor of more easily concealable liquor. From an alcohol poisoning standpoint, that is a lethal blow, due to the relatively diluted nature of beer compared to hard alcohol. With the former, it takes a very concerted effort to become dangerously intoxicated, but with the latter, a simple miscalculation can punch your ticket...
...that students who want to drink, will drink and that you’d rather have those students drinking beer than hard liquor, then you should also agree that the College should be focusing more of its policy on promoting the consumption of beer over more potent forms of alcohol. And by promoting beer, I don’t mean selling off the sponsorship of the Harvard-Yale festivities to Miller Brewing Co., but rather avoiding policies which create inherent incentives for students to swap beer for hard liquor...
...that note, I think Undergraduate Council President Matt Mahan ’05 has the right idea with regard to his proposal of a “pancake breakfast,” the starches from which would serve to combat alcohol poisoning...