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...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...
EVEN at Harvard traditions must be run over by the wheels of progress. The recent decision to ban beer kegs from Freshman dorms shows that University officials recognize this need for change. Such ancient undergraduate rites of passage as playing Donkey Kong by rolling empty kegs down the stairs of Weld Hall or maneuvering through 30 people crammed into a Holworthy bathroom around the keg in the shower will not be remembered, let alone missed by future Harvard students...
...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...
Young though it is, the microbrew industry already has its rivalries. The highest status is claimed by the smallest producers. Uli Bennewitz, co-owner of the Weeping Radish Bavarian Restaurant & Brewery on Roanoke Island, N.C., prides himself on his Hopfen beer, which is so fresh it never enters a keg. "We brew it in one room and pipe it right into the next," he says. That might seem much too limited to Jim Koch, whose Boston Beer Co. sold 24,000 bbl. of Samuel Adams lager last year. Purists may look askance at Samuel Adams because it is a "contract...