Word: lawful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...students' rationale for disregarding the law was simply that serving alcohol at parties without a license was illegal already, so serving it to underage students made it just a little more illegal. Hard-core partiers insisted it would be worth a day or two in jail just to be able to throw a tremendous bash...
...surprisingly, the House masters eventually took a more pragmatic view. If a local liquor merchant, upset with the Houses' flippant dismissal of the law, complained to authorities, or if a sodden teenager raising trouble mentioned he'd gotten the booze at Harvard, it would be the masters' heads rolling. Masters are not the legal guardians of college students, but the House system sets them up in loco parentis. The House masters could therefore not afford to let students run their own happy hours, no matter how discriminate in serving the students promised to be. The potential for a lawsuit...
...more effect than the original one, and first indications demonstrate that this time the masters are a little more serious. They have protected themselves by saying the actual happy hours are too dangerous to hold. Alcohol at open parties has to be carefully regulated, in accordance with the law...
...activity that will draw most House residents. To maintain House social life, students are searching for every loophole they can find to keep alcohol, and the masters, through creative enforcement of the ban on liquor, are coming as close to condoning the students as they can without defying the law. Ed King may be able to railroad the legislature; he has a long way to go before he can conquer Harvard...
Speaking at a slide presentation yesterday. Stephen B. Young, assistant dean at the Law School, compared the Cambodian tragedy to the Nazi Holocaust...