Word: bans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...would be hard-pressed to think that the FDO actually believes the game is legitimately plagued by security concerns. Rather, threatening to enforce a ban (which nobody's heard of until now) under a feeble excuse is indicative of a short-sighted view of campus life. Normally, the College should be jumping to endorse precisely this type of social activity--after all, students are interacting with each other in a meaningful and creative context which doesn't require drugs or alcohol...
...Massachusetts State Legislature's imminent attempt to repeal the ban on buying liquor on Sundays is a long overdue move to repeal an obsolete and nonsensical law. Sunday "Blue Laws"--a remnant of Massachusetts' Puritan history--currently allow the sale of liquor on Sundays only within a 10-mile radius of the New Hampshire border and for six weeks during the holiday season...
...move to ban the Blue Laws barely squeaked through committee last week, and faces rough going in the House of Representatives. But the Cambridge License Commission should follow suit in lifting the ban, especially since it will ultimately be up to them whether the restriction will be lifted here...
...Nathans said the ban is necessary because the game is "fundamentally at odds with basic standards of behavior and interaction in the College...
...This is just another example of Harvard's trying to ban fun at Harvard," said Michael J. Epstein '00, one of two organizers of the game sponsored by HCS and HRSFA, which includes some first year students...