Word: keg
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...interview last night the dean said council input probably would not have prevented the keg...
...council was not consulted on the keg ban, however, because the administration enacted the policy while the council was in its January recess, he said. The College wanted the ban in effect then because officials anticipated large parties at the beginning of spring term, he said...
...policy goes through procedures about licences, common rooms and the Beverage Action Teams (BAT's). The regulations force sponsors of any gathering of 75 or more people to hire carders--this turns the old two-keg, $85.50 party into a massive expense. And in some case you can't charge admission. Bingo. Social life suffers and more pictures of Dean Epps are pinned on dartboards...
Still other parents take tolerance to dangerous, and illegal, extremes. "I know parents who think nothing of buying a keg and having a party with the kids in the backyard," says John Hagan, the principal of Bowie High School in Maryland. Many parents believe supervised drinking is a safe solution. "I let my son share a beer with me once in a while," says one Manhattan father. "I think it's working. I've heard him boast to friends that he drinks with Dad, does not need to lie and sneak around for the stuff...
...keg ban instituted by the Freshman Dean's Office will be a wonderfully effective means for breaking up-and-coming freshman partiers from the bad habits of beer drinking that currently impair the social graces of many upperclassmen. Future freshmen will be able to turn to more practical and productive drinking methods, thereby achieving higher blood alcohol levels than their predecessors ever dreamed of. The administration is taking the first step towards bringing the University's much maligned student social life into a new age. Let us all raise our shot glasses to their foresight and innovation...