Word: illicited
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...flaws as well. Certain points in the letter--we're thinking here of the stern warnings reminding students that they may be "personally financially liable for any harm that may befall an individual" as a result of alcohol use--give the impression that the administration is cracking down on illicit use of alcohol. The reason that this is a problem is that alcohol's illicit nature makes it all the more desirable. A strictly enforced drinking age only exacerbates this phenomenon, and also makes underage drinkers more likely to binge since their access to alcohol is sporadic...
...that makes alcohol so tempting and dangerous. Harvard students are intelligent enough to realize that alcohol is a social drug that needs to be used responsibly. The administration needs to give them this chance by bringing drinking out from underground and into the open where it will lose its illicit allure and hence its danger...
...alcohol's "illicit nature" has little to do with whether students drink. Once an underage student who has been binging illegally turns 21, that underage student is not likely to go dry. The administration can do nothing about the national drinking age; any considerations of what to do about binge drinking must be outside national concerns...
...Singapore report concludes that the actions of these two executives indicate that they knew there was a problem. Moreover, the report continues, by impeding scrutiny of Leeson's futures operations in Singapore, Bax and Norris prevented his illicit trading from being discovered early enough to save the bank...
...members are prepared to confront professors before their students in order to push their agenda, they should be bold enough to have the illicit demonstration appear on their permanent record. For that to happen, the Administrative Board would have to consider the case and vote to take disciplinary action against the demonstrators. Leaving this protest unpunished would encourage future cases. Harmful actions must necessarily have consequences on this campus; those which are pre-meditated and highly constructed deserve a forceful and immediate response from the administration. If SOS subscribes to the theory of civil disobedience, it should suffer the penalties...