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...ban this weekend will not prevent such tragedies, Lewis readily admits, but it will surely help, and he is baffled by the fact that so many students have argued to the contrary. HoCo chairs, the Undergraduate Council and The Crimson are so hypnotized by beer advertising, he seems to think, that they actually believe more hard liquor, suspicious punch bowls and inebriated treks across the river can counterbalance the risks of keg culture. They might as well argue against gravity before a committee of physicists. After years of experience policing kegs and seven Harvard-Yale games as Dean...
...heart of hearts, I admire Lewis’ good-natured attempts at pedagogy. His efforts to shepherd his young flock to safer pastures, while I disagree with them, do have a certain endearing quality. But after weeks of monotonous give and take on the keg ban, with both sides recycling the same arguments, it’s time someone let him in on our little secret...
What frightens us about the ban is its place within a larger threat to our partying pastimes. It breaks the seal on a paternalism otherwise absent from The College’s approach to alcohol, in which upperclass students are trusted to drink as they like without harming each other or marring Harvard’s good name. Parties are not usually broken up unless they are too loud or extend too late into the night, and house functions hosted by University officials often encourage students to enjoy a few drinks, whether they...
Oklahoma COCKFIGHTING Animal-rights advocates got a cockfighting ban on the ballot, a measure that had been repeatedly rejected in the state legislature. Passed...
...longer blame us if something doesn't go right." House Republican leaders say they plan to send a raft of Bush's favorite bills, which they passed early in his term, back to the G.O.P.-controlled Senate. While popular with conservatives, some of the items on that list--a ban on partial-birth abortions and an energy package that includes drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, for example--remain unpalatable to the centrists who are still critical to passing big-ticket legislation. The White House is wary of sending another moderate Republican like Jeffords running to the other...