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...without spilling a drop. Then he would force his mates to down an entire glass of liquor. When Uday was in the hospital after being shot, he called his friends in to cheer him up. Since he couldn't drink, he forced them to consume obscene quantities of alcohol, installing a stomach-pumping station in the next room for emergencies, says a friend. At the Boat Club, Uday kept a monkey named Louisa in a cage in the kitchen. Louisa had a taste for whiskey and was an angry drunk. If one of Uday's friends passed...
When I joined The Crimson’s editorial board seven years ago, one might have thought that Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 was Public Enemy Number One. We criticized his every decision and opinion, ranging from his revised alcohol policies to his views on randomization and the structure of the Philip Brooks House Association. Though we acknowledged at one point that “it may be wrong to pin blame for all the evils of the world on Dean Lewis,” (Editorial, Sept. 17, 1996) at times it certainly seemed...
...Wellesley and Stanford, there are campus pubs where students can go and enjoy a pitcher of beers in the safety of their living space. Yale is far more active in encouraging their students to throw parties in dorm common spaces—and allowing the students to include alcohol, unlike many House-sponsored parties here. One very easy solution would be to allow Harvard parties that are properly cleared with House administrators to last past 1 a.m., providing students with a safer alternative to final clubs...
...unless students have a stronger hand in the shaping of campus policy, success will elude the Harvard administration and satisfaction will elude Harvard students. We know what can work. A keg ban at Harvard-Yale does not work: students drink more hard liquor. Taking a tough-guy stance on alcohol in first-year dorms does not work: it sends them elsewhere. Blaming final clubs does not work: they are free to ignore the warnings...
...enough fear can also be dangerous. People unafraid of natural risks like solar radiation, or risks they think they can control like driving, or risks that are associated with perceived benefits, such as smoking or alcohol consumption or fat-and-calorie-rich diets, fail to take adequate precautions—and they too face a greater likelihood of premature death...