Word: laxness
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...guzzle hard liquor,” as a Crimson staff writer reported at the time. That said, administrators should be wary of over-regulating against a potential repeat of these transgressions. At Yale’s all-day tailgate last year, where enforcement against underage drinking was comparatively lax, police officers issued only six infractions, none of which were related to alcohol. Converesely, in 2006, when Harvard barred all alcohol and other liquids from being brought to Allston and segregated students who were of legal drinking age, ten students were ejected for underage drinking, smuggling alcohol, and possessing false identification...
Subcommittee chairs maintain that their standards have not grown too lax...
...Helsinki After Killings, a Crackdown In the wake of a second school shooting in 10 months--which claimed 11 lives at a trade school 180 miles (290 km) northwest of the capital--the government announced it will move to tighten Finland's lax gun laws by submitting amendments to Parliament that would restrict licensing and deepen background checks. The nation's strong hunting tradition has spurred one of the world's highest rates of gun ownership...
...blamed on corruption and failed regulatory oversight and resulted in the resignations of the province's governor and his deputy (they resigned without being charged with a specific crime). Soon after, three accidents in coal mines killed another 79 people, and a disco fire - once again blamed on lax regulation - killed an estimated 43 revelers in the southern city of Shenzhen. But citizens' furor over poisonous infant formula and the seemingly blatant failure of regulation in the milk industry overshadowed all those tragedies. One reason was its sheer scale: more than 50,000 children sickened, some 12,000 hospitalized...
KANYE WEST involved in 8 a.m. scuffle with paparazzi at LAX. Not a morning person, that Kanye...