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...love over noodles and beer with FM in the Adams House kitchen known as the “Diaspora Room.” Or, more precisely, the “Diaspora Pooh,” thanks to the handwriting of a visionary Adams resident. Rohit pauses reflectively, lowering his keg can from his pursed lips. “I can only imagine what it was like when it was still a room [and not a pooh],” he said. Rohit may be vying to lead the Harvard student body into the future, but he certainly does not lack...
Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 instituted the keg ban after four students got severe alcohol poisoning at The Game two years ago. Yet, preliminary numbers reveal that this year, even more students got sick—up to 30 students overall were taken by ambulance to local medical facilities and at least two were intubated for extreme intoxication, according to a source close to Professional Ambulance. Even more disturbing, Director of University Health Services (UHS) David S. Rosenthal ’59 said that at least six students were treated at UHS with severe...
...keg ban should be repealed; it did not decrease, and may have actually increased, the number of students who got sick at The Game. In effect, the keg ban prompted many students to “pre-game” before the tailgate with alcoholic drinks. Additionally, the ban caused many of the organizations hosting tailgates to serve mixed drinks, making the level of alcohol more difficult for students to ascertain. These two factors created a dangerous situation where more students could consume unhealthy levels of alcohol...
...ban’s harmful impact extended beyond students to the environment. In previous years, keg bins were easily recycled and students consuming beer from kegs could more resourcefully re-use their cups. This year, however, flurries of recyclable aluminum cans didn’t find recycling bins, and loads of waste ended up on Jordan Field—about 30,000 cans according to Environmental Action Committee estimates. Even worse, hundreds of glass bottles were broken and now lie on the ground of Jordan Field, where many intramural teams play football, soccer and softball...
Drinking will remain a component of many college students’ experiences. Recognition of this fact should motivate the College to strive to reduce forms of unhealthy drinking, not to encourage them, as the keg ban does. As long as the ban exists, it will remain an ineffective measure that will hurt students, the College and the environment much more than it could ever help. A keg prohibition will never address the serious problem of binge drinking...