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...While serving in the Navy during World War II, Schulberg was assigned to the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), where he worked with director John Ford's documentary unit. Schulberg created photo documentation for the Nuremburg trials and personally arrested German filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl at her chalet in Kitzbühel, Austria. Following his military service, Schulberg wrote the fight-racket novel The Harder They Fall and had no more movie credits until he and Kazan teamed up for On the Waterfront, for which John Garfield, Frank Sinatra and the young Paul Newman were touted for the Terry Malloy role...
...Double and undercover agents fill out the movie's other main plots. A German-born English officer, Lieutenant Archie Hicox (Michael Fassbender, of Hunger and Fish Tank), is sent by his OSS superior (Mike Myers in a low-key guest spot) to hook up in France with starlet Von Hammersmark, and thus get close enough to Hitler, Goering and Goebbels to kill them and end the war. (Two of the Reich's most beloved actresses, Zarah Leander and Olga Chekova, were later thought to be secret agents for the U.S.S.R.) Hicox and the actress rendezvous in a French...
...alcohol—likely due to some proactive steps on the part of University Health Services, which set up a medical attention tent at the tailgate. More important than the tailgate itself, over-enforcing drinking laws will only encourage unhealthy drinking. Underage students will not stop drinking because of OSS, but they will be more likely to do it in private, more quickly, and in more extreme amounts via concentrated pre-gaming before heading out for the night...
...understand the BPD’s need to enforce the law. And we sympathize with the concerns of citizens about witnessing the drunken behavior and public urination of a bunch of crazy kids. But initiating OSS, a move that will increase restrictions, is not an effective way to stop students from drinking. College students will never stop drinking, no matter how many acronyms are thrown in their way. Until the BPD takes a more pragmatic stance towards underage alcohol consumption, the correlated problems of binge drinking and raucous behavior will only worsen as students who wish to drink are pushed...
Beyond the program’s double standard for students and overzealous enforcement, OSS is a misguided initiative founded on an unfair characterization of the Harvard-Yale tailgate. It should be abandoned before it fulfills its promise of doing more harm than good...