Word: alcoholism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...down to the beaches at Lynn--all you see are kids drinking beer. You can't even find a parking place," Joseph Cardile from Randolph, said yesterday. He added that he believes the drinking age should be raised to 21 years because teenagers cannot handle alcohol. "Kids stole my tools to get money to buy booze. I caught them. They don't want to work, they just want to drink booze," he said...
Jude DiGiovanni, a parking attendant from Newton who just turned 20 years old, also said yesterday teenagers are having no more difficulty obtaining alcohol than they did when the legal drinking age was 18. He added that only about half of the bars he has visited check identification. "And all you have to do is go up to anyone who is 20 and they'll buy it for you," he said...
...stayed at its usual high level. Sgt. Richard Rule added that the only decreases in public drinking by teenagers have been in the public parks, where the police have clamped down. "I don't know where the 18-to-20 year olds are drinking," he said, adding that alcohol consumption in the home has probably increased...
...majority of students, however, seem to think pumpkin carvings, ice cream orgies, donuts, cider and pinball go better with booze. It is basically an unhealthy attitude to believe any social function has to include booze, but the alcohol is just about the only ingredient to ensure a regular House turnout. Holding a weekly cider hour might go over in Tenafly but in Cambridge, weekly happy hours lubricate even the most trivial house functions. Alcohol is no doubt a social crutch, but it is also one ingredient most people in a House will draw around...
...Houses have reached an impasse. It may not be healthy--it's certainly not legal--to hold happy hours, but they are the one type of activity that will draw most House residents. To maintain House social life, students are searching for every loophole they can find to keep alcohol, and the masters, through creative enforcement of the ban on liquor, are coming as close to condoning the students as they can without defying the law. Ed King may be able to railroad the legislature; he has a long way to go before he can conquer Harvard...