Word: alcoholism
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Angela Miklavcic's concern for underage drinking in finals club (Opinion, Nov.24) is typical puritan vitriol. She attacks the AD for serving alcohol to her 16-year old friend, claiming that "Harvard students should have better judgement any day, drunk or sober, than 16-year-olds...
...Cambridge resident reports that at 2:40 a.m. a patron of a local bar was stopped by the bartender from consuming more alcohol. The patron then became upset and knocked a pair of glasses off his table. The suspect's friend confronted him in the bar's parking lot and tried to take his keys. The suspect tried to punch his friend and then fled...
Commissioners also denied the fraternity's request for an undergraduate resident advisor, hinting at MIT's problemswith alcohol and alluding to last year's bingedrinking death of first-year fraternity pledgeScott Krueger...
...their hand (this might sound ludicrous, but it appears to me the only possible way the A.D. could explain it without saying the doorman blatantly did something illegal). Once in, however, someone must have suspected they were too young to be drinking and should have said something, taken their alcohol away or at least asked if they were with someone from the College. No one did, however, and the two 16-year-olds were able to enjoy themselves...
...cause you to think twice before you let yourself or your little sister go to the A.D. ever again. Angela M. Miklavcic '00 is a social anthropology concentrator in Lowell House. Editors' Note: The A.D. says that licensed bartenders, hired to check identification as well as to serve alcohol, were present at the party in question...