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This Saturday, No. 13 Harvard will travel to No. 16 Penn for a contest that will decide the Ivy football championship—one which, if it weren’t for an indefensible ban on postseason participation, would give the winner an automatic berth in the NCAA I-AA playoffs...
...history of this ridiculous ban is pretty easy to trace, and it starts in the late 1970s. The Ivy League began to complain about “big time” college football and tried to push for legislation to curb a perceived arms race that was developing...
...answer is unclear. Despite attempts this week to obtain a rationale from Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ‘71 for his decision to only partially repeal the ban, Gross’ office did not provide an explanation of its recent actions. They referred all requests on the subject to Lewis. Last week, we asked University President Lawrence H. Summers about the alcohol restrictions for Harvard-Yale, and he told us that Harvard was simply attempting to comply with the laws of the state of Massachusetts and abide by the rules set in place by the Boston...
When the keg ban was initiated two years ago, Dean Lewis was driven by a quaint paternalistic impulse, which ultimately proved unsound. The University has lately taken steps toward a more pragmatic and results-oriented alcohol policy. We sincerely hope Harvard applies that kind of nuanced thinking to their policy on kegs. Student health and safety concerns are of primary importance, but foolishly banning all kegs serves nobody’s interests. It may in fact lead to more dangerous drinking instead of less. Dean Gross, you’ve taken small steps to rectify this mistake: why stop halfway...
...make sense for evangelicals to support the war in Iraq, where thousands of innocent Iraqis and Americans have met their ends prematurely. If the ultimate goal was to prevent murder, then it doesn’t make sense to support a president who allowed the automatic weapons ban to expire—a law that, even if ineffective as some have claimed, at least showed that America was committed to removing tools of mass death from the hands of individuals. If Christians care so much about the life of the unborn, then they should also care about the lives...