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Several College administrators and Harvard Athletics personnel met yesterday with top officers from the Boston Police Department (BPD) and the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) to discuss what went wrong at the Game and to address future alcohol regulations...
...many tailgaters, male and female, to choose Mother Nature over a 30-minute line for a Porta-Potty to answer the call. The single entrance to the tailgate also created a massive and frustrating bottleneck, which was no doubt to blame for raising tension levels between students and BPD. With two years to fix crowd control strategy, we hope 2006’s tailgate will run much more smoothly. Finally, the ticketing system for non-student attendees was poorly publicized and inefficient. Many non-student revelers arrived at Ohiri Field only to be told to make the trek back...
Beyond these ephemeral pluses and minuses at this year’s particular tailgate lies a chronic problem that will continue to plague future tailgates: alcohol policy. There is no question that some serious miscommunications between the Dean’s Office, the Undergraduate Council and BPD over expected attendance levels and alcohol policy led to some of BPD’s post-Game flare-up. Captain Evans seemed shocked by the perceived omnipresence of hard alcohol. “People were just carrying jugs around with Jack Daniels, vodka and tequila,” he said. But the presence...
Evans and BPD are far from seeing eye to eye with the College with regards to alcohol policy, and the division will surely deepen with time. Without question, the College’s main priority is student safety, and taking the most pragmatic, sensible (and legal) steps it can to ensure that safety. On the other hand, Evans has made clear his priorities are to crack down on underage drinking. Unfortunately, these dual priorities do not always line up. If Harvard and BPD do not reach a consensus on the right approach, Harvard’s future in Allston will...
This year’s tailgate doesn’t deserve the bad reputation it has acquired. The Boston Herald and BPD alike contended that 2004 marked new heights of drunken debauchery at the Harvard-Yale Game. But what they failed to see was the safety net underlying the celebration and the detailed planning that made this year’s tailgate the safest effort yet. Besides easily fixable problems like bathrooms and entrance lines, the problem with this year’s tailgate seems confined to particular individuals and their personal attitudes—be it consuming to dangerous...