Word: alcoholism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recent years, the Residential Education department has required that alternative beverages be served at campus functions and has asked students to de-emphasize the fact that alcohol will be served at advertised parties...
...proctors as they read you the rules and handed you a cold one. Before this year, no one could remember getting carded at a campus-wide party. Harvard's tacit disapproval of the drinking age has shaped campus social life and spawned the breed of social animal that needs alcohol to party. If Harvard wanted to enforce the drinking age, they should have been doing so all along. If Harvard wants to enforce the drinking age now, they should ease the campus into...
...There would be a free exchange of ideas and opinions much like what took place in the Harlem Renaissance or in the Paris of Gertrude Stein. After all, a party is a party is a party. You only go to parties to meet people anyway. Do you really need alcohol to do that? Wouldn't Descartes do just as well...
...that alcohol takes away from the quality of Harvard social life. Maybe alcohol adds to the quantity of Harvard social life. Perhaps Crimson prohibition is a change for the better. However, what Harvard social life evolves into is not the point. The point is that Harvard fed the problem of underage drinking by not restricting it previously. Now Harvard changes its mind not because of a belief in the law but because of the threat of a lawsuit. The Harvard administration knew about underage drinking for a long time and chose to ignore and even contribute to the problem. Because...
...open keg is over. Providing funds for live music is an example. The Talking Heads or The Del Fuegos would be acceptable substitutes for a styrofoam cup of warm beer. University support on the advertising of campus-wide parties would be another way of filling the alcohol void...