Word: alcoholism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with this semester comes the ominous new, all-encompassing alcohol policy with its weak motives, cumbersome rules and regulations and unreachable, and possibly nonexistent, goals...
...preamble" (if it may be so called) of a memo sent out to the House Committees and the House offices contains this sentence as the raison d'etre for the alcohol policy's enactment: "respect for the law and by the view that students should not be deprived of learning opportunities conistent with...
Students can learn nothing except disrespect for any alcohol policy. Remember the mocking motto on the back of Quincy House T-shirts: "Thank you for obeying Massachusets drinking laws...
...memo then makes the typical intimidating statement of what will happen when the policy fails: "There are colleges and universities that have banned alcohol altogether from their campuses...
...statement is hollow; Harvard would never stoop that low. After all, a universal alcohol ban would be unenforceable. Just look at all the other alternatives in Cambridge for sudsing up, and the fact that alcohol, once it is in the system, cannot be banned...