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Compensation: Harvard-Yale Game 2006: Gillette Stadium. Harvard-Yale Game 2006 Tailgate: Copley Mall. BPD Capt. William Evans: Reassigned to Williams...
...behavior at our traditional tailgate entirely unwarranted—after the event, Evans himself stirred up a media frenzy demonizing Harvard students for their public urination, belligerent behavior, and general unseemliness—it has potentially harmful consequences for the encouragement of healthy drinking habits. And while BPD has no jurisdiction over Cambridge, the University’s eventual expansion into Allston means students will undoubtedly be affected...
...event. Yes, unfortunately there were cases of public urination, but that was due to the lack of public toilets available at the event, a logistical flaw that can be easily fixed in preparation for 2006’s Game. To say that public urination constitutes the poorest behavior the BPD has ever witnessed suggests that the department has rather selective memory...
...misinformation out there” in the weeks leading up to the notorious tailgate. According to the captain, “You can’t tell us 4,000 [people will attend] and have 10,000 show up.” The BPD was also apparently led to believe that there would be “no entertainment, but kids were carrying boom-boxes and singing karaoke.” If this is the case, Evans has every right to be upset with the handling of some aspects of the tailgate’s preparation. But these are changes...
...drunken behavior and public urination of a bunch of crazy kids. But initiating OSS, a move that will increase restrictions, is not an effective way to stop students from drinking. College students will never stop drinking, no matter how many acronyms are thrown in their way. Until the BPD takes a more pragmatic stance towards underage alcohol consumption, the correlated problems of binge drinking and raucous behavior will only worsen as students who wish to drink are pushed farther underground, out of the reach of the BPD and college health officials...