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...House Masters decided unanimously yesterday to ban kegs from the Houses on the weekend of this year’s Harvard-Yale game—an extension of the decision made after the 2000 Harvard-Yale game to prohibit kegs from the tailgate area...
...decision came on the same day that members of the Eliot House Committee drafted a petition to Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 requesting that he reevaluate the ban on kegs at next month’s Harvard-Yale tailgate events...
Hanson said the ban was due to the 2000 Harvard-Yale game, when there were “clear signs that that type of alcoholic beverage at the game was detrimental to the spirit of the game.” He said there were several instances that weekend when intoxicated students were endangered—with some even falling from the trucks rented for tailgates...
...cited student safety as the primary reason the ban should be overturned...
...petition also says the ban may compromise undergraduates’ safety because they might travel while intoxicated from an alternative tailgate site to The Game...