Word: alcoholism
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Student leaders say they sometimes struggle to hold events that satisfy both Massachusetts drinking laws and their members’ desires for lax alcohol restrictions. Whereas the administration focuses on the former, student group leaders often emphasize the latter, bringing the two into inevitable disagreement...
...addition to requiring Harvard University Police Department detail teams to be present at events with 100 or more attendees, the Office of Student Life requires BAT teams at student organization events that serve alcohol, charging $21.50 per hour for a minimum of four hours. Nelson calls this policy “a great model” that allows for “the kind of responsible behavior that we want students and adults to have...
...problem of alcohol and liability is tough, many student leaders find the social space situation to be downright dismal...
...wallets of the hundreds of students trapped between Shepard and Linnaean Streets. Additionally, the UC worked with the administration to revamp the Student Initiated Programming fund. In a nod to the legacy of the defunct Party Fund, a third of SIP grant money can now be used to buy alcohol so long as the host does not drink and takes measures not to serve underage guests, making it a very welcome addition to the Harvard party scene...
...telling corollary, even with ever-stricter alcohol regulation on campus, significantly more students were admitted to Stillman Infirmary for alcohol-related illness than in any previous year. We argue that Harvard’s alcohol policies push students who want to drink, particularly freshmen, to unsafely binge before going to a party rather than drink socially at the party itself. The school’s relatively new amnesty policy, which protects ill students and those who escort them to Stillman from disciplinary action, is a good one. But even if it is only this newfound comfort that is pushing...