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...fact that convenience and liquor stores do not sell booze on Sunday has earned the chagrin of Harvard’s thirsty collegiates by leaving them high and dry in front of a television broadcasting what turns out to be an exceptionally less interesting football game without a six-pack accompaniment. Smart college students who have learned to plan ahead, stocking up on the sauce just before the Sabbath, may well have figured out how to flout legislators. But buying their juice early and downing it the following day forces them to make an extra effort on Saturday night?...
When the topic of nonsensical governance of commodities is on the floor of the legislature again next week, there’s another issue students would benefit to see debated: the ban on selling liquor in grocery stores. While Californians can enjoy the privilege of buying their Smirnoff in any Safeway, Massachusetts citizens, and the students that dwell seasonally within its drier-than-thou borders, are denied this convenience...
...changes turn the beloved Commonwealth into a sordid collection of hussies and miscreants? Alas, no. The legislature has already diluted their supposed morals with necessary pragmatism, and the world has not come to an end. This time, Massachusetts must stop flagellating itself, let its people both consume and buy liquor on Sunday, and make some easy cash...
...prevalence of alcohol marketing campaigns in college campus areas affect students’ level of drinking. Over the course of eight years, trained observers were sent to over 120 college campuses to check out the drinking scene at all major alcohol outlets—bars, clubs and liquor stores...
They found that the heavily promoted items such as kegs, “party balls” and liquor-in-a-fishbowl, combined low price with high volume and were most likely to place college students at risk. The alcohol industry advertises such promos with characteristic subtlety; Wechsler recalls one bar’s advertisement reading “Freshmen Welcome. Bring Fake ID?...