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Every year the Harvard-Yale football game drums up school spirit, promotes a healthy rivalry and gives students an excuse to turn pre-game tailgates into a midday bacchanalia. But by order of Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68, the ubiquitous kegs of beer that ringed the stadium and populated the business school parking lot this year are now forbidden. Although Lewis is right to be concerned about both safety and students who become drunk and rowdy, banning kegs does not solve the problem of irresponsible drinking and might even make it worse...
...week after the tragedy, the Boston Globe described these streets as a scene of bacchanalia. "In this teeming college town, at any given moment on any given weekend, there is a party to be had...There's an empty cup to fiddle with until you reach the flowing keg at the start of the line, and when the keg runs dry, there's a bouncer who will hold what he knows is a fake ID up to the light, and let you in anyway...
Think you've seen Agamemnon? Think again. This production aims to turn Reading Period into Harvard's very own Bacchanalia, or at least a rollicking theater experience. Video and sound technology will allow the audience to become caught up in the well-worn tale of Clytemnestra's murder of Agamemnon, instead of passively standing by. For example, Agamemnon's entrance will be real time through the streets of Cambridge; and the many references in the text to prior events and the foreshadowing of two more plays in the cycle will be supplemented by "scary" video flashbacks. Clytemnestra will...
...everyone stays in denial, no one will take a shower? One thing that we know hurts morale is forcing people to dissemble about who waits for them at home, whom they vacation with. The Joint Chiefs fret over a breakdown of discipline, as if Tailhook had been a gay bacchanalia. Whether gay or straight, sex in the barracks is a one-way ticket to the brig. We're talking about the military, not a college dorm...
According to Thomas M. Lauderdale '92, who was a legend during his days at Adams for throwing the wildest parties around (including one bacchanalia that forced the closing of the House pool), Adams had the most "edge" of any House, precisely because the Kielys were willing to take in everyone--the socialists, beatniks and gays...