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...soundest ways to invest in student life on campus.In the meantime, HoCos should be looking for innovative ways to raise funds. One surefire method would be to tap into alumni giving to Houses. Some HoCos already use trusts to pay for hugely expensive House events like the Lowell Bacchanalia. But as a general rule, HoCos are prohibited from administering capital campaigns, even though they could improve social life and make alums happy that their money is going straight to students. In the future, the College and the President’s Office should look seriously at directly funding HoCos...
...teams are generally very good at verifying ID and the nitpicky details, but we’ve had some trouble with them,” says Todd van Stolk-Riley ’06, Lowell HoCo Treasurer, explaining that during the first Lowell Bacchanalia, BAT team members initially refused to open up four bars for alcohol. Several HoCo leaders also claim that BAT team members have trouble dealing with logistical aspects of the party, and do more harm than good...
...grab a bag of SoyChips, chips for us carbophobes who buy into the gospel that Vogue preaches,” she tells us conspiratorially. But her descriptions of the scanty (or nonexistent) outfits in which she trots off to parties, meant to make her audience revel in the bacchanalia of college life, don’t gel with her supposed embarrassment...
...veritable bacchanalia of inter-student organization excess, the event lived up to the predilections of its namesake. Typically antagonistic undergraduates—fired up by two weeks of back-and-forth salvos between the paper’s editorial page and UC president Matt W. Mahan ’05—smoothed their differences over gallons of cheap alcohol. As the busts of sober Harvard alumni frowned down from the walls, ping-pong balls and sprays of beer flew across the wood-paneled, hallowed halls of the Sanctum...
Captain William Evans of the Boston Police Department (BPD) came to the Harvard-Yale tailgate on Saturday expecting an “innocent” beer-only event of 4,000 students. Instead he found Ohiri Field transformed into a 10,000-person bacchanalia with some students “doing anything and everything” to guzzle hard liquor and others peeing on walls...