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...response to that health nightmare, then-Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 imposed an unpopular ban on all kegs for the 2002 edition of The Game and ran an op-ed in The Crimson in its defense...
...overconsumption of alcohol and thus more alcohol poisoning relative to cans, because the quantity of beer consumed from a keg is difficult to track. He also pointed out that “the higher cost of canned beer than kegs is actually an argument in favor [of the ban],” because it could lead to the purchase of a smaller quantity of beer due to the higher cost...
Lewis was right in that the ban of kegs did lead to less beer being readily available at the 2002 tailgate. That’s because instead of drinking from kegs, students opted for the next cheapest form of booze, which was not cans or bottles of beer, but hard alcohol. And the hard stuff is much more difficult to keep track of from the standpoint of quantity consumed than the beer distributed from kegs that Lewis was so concerned about...
...than “out of tailgate sight, out of mind.” It’s time for those folks in University Hall to take a realistic view of the situation and enact policies which, rather than being token jabs at the perceived problem like the keg ban, actually show some regard for student safety...
Following protests from Undergraduate Council leaders, the College retreated from the ban, which had accompanied a requirement that all student groups shift their bank accounts to the Harvard University Employee Credit Union (HUECU...