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...thumb friend, Larry) Too bad of your scheme Harvard found itself wary. For ghost-ridden common room dwellers a wink, And for all autumn-lovers a pumpkin-filled sink. For upperclass prefects a few good cold showers, And a few common rooms for the Mather gang's towers. An off-campus shelter for each Cabot dweller--And a quick painless end to the noise in the cellar. Some new ideas for the House Committees Who can't hold keg parties in such a strict city, And for all those upholding the laws against drink A gallon of New Coke...
Because of rising community complaints about off-campus parties, the Rev. Edward J. Hanrahan, dean of students at B.C., has been making frequent visits to the gatherings off-campus to make sure the festivities don't get out of hand...
...enthusiasm for off-campus social life is apparently a result of the Massachusetts drinking age of 21. Strict enforcement of the drinking age on campus has caused students to seek their weekend fun elsewhere. And because B.C. police have no jurisdiction outside the campus of the Chestnut Hill school, administrators have taken it upon themselves to see that students obey the new laws...
Some of the enforcement of the drinking age appears extreme. One off-campus student relates that a friend of legal drinking age was carded four times in one night. "He was carded at the liquor store, then entering the off-campus housing, then in his hallway and finally when he was disposing of the empties," says Kathy R. Bennett junior at Boston College...
...single one, Berendzen noted, was from a black applicant. At about the same time, Patricia Snyder, 42, faced the bleak prospect of having to abandon her graduate studies in anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) because she could not meet her annual tuition and off-campus living expenses of $16,000. If she had left, the department's black graduate- student body would have been reduced by one-third. Indeed, only 5.2% of UCLA's 11,610 graduate students are black...